Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social app…
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Facebook will let you customize your feed algorithm using AI
Facebook's new "Your Algorithm" feature will let you directly add and manage topics you want to see in your feed and Facebook Reels. Meta says your…
The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots
Multiple Ukrainian drone strikes over the last week have taken Russian data centers offline and reportedly caused online bot traffic to plummet - bu…
Frances Haugen hopes The Social Reckoning will inspire more whistleblowers
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was mostly unfazed watching Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison play a character named after her in The Social…
Meta is banning TikTok ads across its platforms
Meta has banned ads from TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance across the US and several other countries as the rivalry between the major social…
Are you ready for everything to look like TikTok?
Since TikTok burst into mainstream consciousness, many things have been called a "TikTok clone": YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Snapchat Spotlight…
What The Social Reckoning gets right — and wrong
Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning has its fair share of cinematic flair, but many details in the story hew closely to real life. The movie tells t…
Doxxing Jane Doe
Who is Jane Doe? Online vigilantes have tried to expose the Cornell University student who filed a lawsuit accusing seven fraternity members of gang…
The Social Reckoning is a tepid thriller that reminds us of how we got here
When David Fincher's The Social Network premiered in 2010, many people still thought of Mark Zuckerberg as a genius who had revolutionized the world…
Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures
Meta's lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing laws…
San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts
San Francisco is suing the Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company behind Truth Social, for selling early access to President Donald…
What if social media isn’t hurting kids?
Two years ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt released his New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation. The book posits that the rise of so…
Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI
Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta's launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions wi…
A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports…
The White House calls Truth Social the ‘most powerful and popular’ social media platform
The White House claims the Donald Trump-owned Truth Social is the "most powerful and popular social media platform in the world." The statement, pro…
Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human
Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It's also renaming the "AI cre…
If Meta’s going down, it’s taking TikTok and YouTube with it
Meta might be on the hook for $17.1 billion and a host of app changes under a new kids safety settlement, but it's already spinning the deal to its…
All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens
Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agr…
Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could hav…
Raspberry Pi shares its official tutorial for making a cyberdeck
Raspberry Pi's head of social, Ashley Whittaker, acknowledged the cyberdeck trend today, saying "we haven't been able to get away from cyberdecks th…
Patreon is changing its algorithm to help smaller creators get discovered
Patreon has announced a number of new and overhauled features that are designed to "build a better network - and a better internet," according to CE…
It’s about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith
Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don’t trust the media — and yet they’ve never con…
Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow
Bluesky has added a new feature that lets you hide reposts from a specific person in your feeds. The tool might be helpful if you want to stop seein…
X replaces its revenue-sharing program with ‘Original Content Rewards’
X is ending its controversial revenue-sharing program for content creators, which has seen numerous revisions under Elon Musk's reign. In its place,…
X product chief Nikita Bier is leaving after one year
X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor, writing that "it's time to pass the torch and demote…
TikTok Says ‘Moderator Error’ Kept Perez Hilton Livestream Up
The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since…
Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble
Today, I’m talking with Toni Schneider, who is the brand new CEO of the social platform Bluesky — he formally took over after a short stint as inter…
New Yorkers will soon need to verify their age to access algorithmic feeds
New Yorkers who want to see their Instagram or TikTok feed curated by an algorithm, or receive notification after midnight, will soon have to verify…
X Money is launching in the US starting today
X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform…
The vertical video takeover is here
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on all things vertical video, follow David…