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Katie Zacharia started as White House press secretary on October 12. The same day, CNN’s KFile published a review of her social media history, including posts she had deleted years ago. Here is what was found, how deleted posts get recovered and how her first briefing went.

For two months, Instagram suggested Creed’s 1999 hit “Higher” as the soundtrack for Stories no matter what people posted. Meta now says the song was recommended to more people than intended and engineers are working on a fix. Soulja Boy’s “Turn My Swag On,” on the other hand, is not a bug.

YouTuber Jack Doherty says he signed a deal with crypto casino Shuffle.com without reading it, and that one clause bars him from posting online. Shuffle CEO Noah Dummett says the six-month term is real and the company will not scrap it. Here is how the deal came together, and why it might also be a stunt.

Jean Philanthrope appeared on September 17, went viral shadowboxing around Paris, and has since acquired a sister, a mother, a wife and a son. He is also attached to a Solana meme coin, which is the detail that explains the family. Here is what the bot traffic numbers actually say, and what they do not.

Singapore’s government has launched FirstDate, a Singpass-verified matchmaking service that covers the cost of your first date. It runs on a Nobel-winning algorithm, gives you 72 hours to decide, and for now only public servants aged 21 to 35 can join.

A YouTuber let Meta’s Muse agent handle a Facebook Marketplace listing. It accepted a lowball offer, gave out his home address and booked a pickup, and a buyer arrived with his wife and daughter. Meta says no privacy controls were breached.

Simon Leviev says his app Safe Love will protect women from romance fraud. The Online Dating and Discovery Association has written to Apple and Google asking them to refuse to list any dating app he fronts. The interesting part is that neither store has a rule built for this question.

Georgetown and University of Washington researchers had 331 people watch a car accident, then read an AI summary of it a day or two later. One altered detail dropped accurate recall from 83.6% to 44.8%, and being told the summary was AI written made no difference at all.

Instagram’s new Pixel effect uses Meta AI to blur anyone you describe in a text prompt. Instagram pitched it at relationship soft launches, and that framing is exactly what set the backlash off.

For $3.99 a month, Instagram Plus shows you how many times each person rewatched your story. The same subscription lets people watch your story without appearing at all. Both features are in the same app, and they quietly cancel each other out.