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Social media news covering Facebook, Discord, dating apps and new platforms, with policy changes, misinformation fights and features users should know about.
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.
Instagram’s Following feed strips out the recommendations and shows only accounts you follow. It has existed for years, and it will not stay switched on. Australia wants to force the issue, and Adam Mosseri is arguing the other way.
California signed twelve child safety bills on September 10, including civil penalties of up to $1 million per child injured and a ban on algorithmic feeds for users under 16. The penalty is not the interesting part. The venue is.
Meta retired the Facebook Comments plugin on 10 February 2026 and it now renders as an invisible element. Here is how to remove the dead code, rescue what you can, and pick a replacement.
DoubleTrouble is an Android banking trojan handed out through Discord channels. It records your screen, logs keystrokes and blocks banking apps. Here is how it works and how to check your phone.