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Source: Social Media Today TikTok’s rolling out a new account security dashboard, which will provide a simplified overview of all of your key privacy and safety settings in a single screen. Continue reading
Source: Meta In January, Meta announced that we will end our third party fact checking program and move to a crowd-sourced Community Notes approach, starting in the United States. On March 18th, we will begin testing this new approach by allowing contributors...
Source: Techcrunch Facebook is rolling out the ability for creators to earn money for views on public stories. The new monetization option is available globally to creators who are part of the Facebook Content Monetization program. Continue reading...
Source: Social Media Today Snapchat has launched a new form of its popular AR Lens feature, with “Video Gen AI Lenses,” which are custom created animations that align with your video clips. Continue reading
Source: Socila Media Today TikTok’s rolling out some new tools to help parents manage their kids’ use of the app, and ensure that they are indeed taking breaks from TikTok’s addictive, never-ending ‘For You’ feed. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today A quick note on LinkedIn’s Predictive Audiences, which utilize AI modeling to build audience profiles for you, based on a combination of your own data and LinkedIn’s insights. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today Good news for those who are sick of their Pinterest feed being inundated with AI-generated trash: Pinterest has now officially implemented a new policy to label AI-generated images. Continue reading
Source: Techcrunch Meta’s Threads has begun testing a new feature that would allow people to add their interests to their profile on the social network. Instead of only advertising to profile visitors the sort of topics you might post about, the new interests...
Source: Techcrunch X is actively working to expand the reach of xAI’s Grok model to more users on the platform. Multiple users noted today that people can now mention Grok in replies and ask a question to get an explanation about a post. Continue reading...
Source: Techcrunch YouTube on announced a new premium subscription tier called Premium Lite, which will allow users to watch “most” videos ad-free for $7.99 per month. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today YouTube has announced some new safety features for teen users, including a range of additional third party resources to help encourage more conscious, safe online viewing behaviors. Continue reading
Source: Socila Media Today YouTube’s expanding its Hype creator amplification option, while it’s also updating its policies on gambling-related content, in order to limit the types of gambling promotions that can be shown to younger users. Continue...