Social Networks Stories for 2023

Fewer People Are Posting on Social Media. 50% Could Leave Or Limit Interactions Within 2 Years 91
Social Media Companies Made $11 Billion In US Ad Revenue From Minors, Study Finds 26
As Reddit CEO Defends Their Controversial API Decision, It Dominates Reddit's Own 'Recaps' 52
The Rise and Fall of Usenet 130
EU Targets Pornhub, XVideos, Stripchat Under New Content Rules 79
Flipboard Is Pivoting To ActivityPub and the Fediverse 14
Threads Plans to Interoperate With Other Platforms in the Fediverse 30
Twitch Rescinds Policy That Allowed 'Artistic Nudity' 41
TikTok Requires Users To 'Forever Waive' Rights To Sue Over Past Harms 23
Threads Launches In the European Union 27
More Than 15% of Teens Say They're On YouTube or TikTok 'Almost Constantly' 70
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate Anonymity on Social Media 174
Harvard Accused of Bowing to Meta By Ousted Disinformation Scholar in Whistleblower Complaint 148
Reactions Continue to Viral Video that Led to Calls for College Presidents to Resign 414
Threads Adds Hashtags Ahead of EU Launch 11
Actors Recorded Videos for 'Vladimir.' It Turned Into Russian Propaganda. 70
Twitch To Shut Down in Korea Over 'Prohibitively Expensive' Network Fees 44
Does TikTok Censor Content Critical of China? CNN Investigates 97
Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday Prank: Launching Its Own Social Media Site 23
In World's Largest Disinformation Campaign Online, China Is Harassing Americans 208
Social Media Giants Must Face Child Safety Lawsuits, Judge Rules 53
Nepal To Ban TikTok 40
Former President Obama Warns 'Disruptive' AI May Require Rethinking Jobs and the Economy 151
Is India Setting a 'Global Standard' for Online Censorship of Social Media? 63
Five Republican Presidential Candidates Call for TikTok to Be Banned in America 194
Tumblr Is Reportedly On Life Support As Its Latest Owner Reassigns Staff 54
Omegle Shuts Down After 15 Years 58
Will 'News Influencers' Replace Traditional Media? 123
Instagram Head Says Threads API Is In the Works 15
LinkedIn Hits 1 Billion Users, Adds AI Features for Job Seekers 28
China Removes Anonymity of Bloggers' Accounts With More Than 500,000 Followers 20
Tens of Millions Now Work in the $250B 'Creator Economy' 95
Will The Future See Interconnected Social Media Platforms? 37
Twitter Alternative Pebble, Previously Known As T2, Is Shutting Down 28
'Threads' Downloads Nearly Doubled in September, as New Features Roll Out 67
Online 'Information War' in Africa Rages on Social Media 46
What Happens When Major Online Platforms Lower Traffic to News Sites? 101
Supreme Court Blocks Restrictions On Biden Administration Efforts To Get Platforms To Remove Social Media Posts 148
Telegram is Still Leaking User IP Addresses To Contacts 18
Discord is Going To Give Out Warnings Instead of Permanent Bans 25
'Apple Is Approaching Social On Vision Pro the Way Meta Should Have All Along' 69
Reddit is Killing Blockchain-Based Community Points 10
Third-party Reddit App Narwhal Hopes To Survive Reddit's App Purge With Subscriptions 20
New York Seeks To Limit Social Media's Grip On Children's Attention 23
Utah Sues TikTok, Alleging It Lures Children Into Addictive and Destructive Social Media Habits 60
Mastodon Actually Has 407K+ More Monthly Users Than It Thought 46
California Governor Signs Ban On Social Media 'Aiding or Abetting' Child Abuse 70
Meta To Lay Off Employees in Metaverse Silicon Unit Tomorrow 55
Meta Plans To Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook 119
Social Media Dunks on an AI-Generated 'Batman' Comic Strip 110
Republican Presidential Candidates Criticize TikTok as 'Dangerous', 'Controlled by Communist China' 167
Kia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram For Their Cars Getting Stolen 80
Supreme Court To Decide If State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate Constitution 42
Reddit Is Removing Ability To Opt Out of Ad Personalization Based On Your Activity 54
Indonesia To Ban Purchases On Social Media Like TikTok 5
Reddit Will Start Paying You Real Money For Your Karma 65
WSJ Criticizes 'the Billionaire Keeping TikTok On Phones In the US' 72
WordPress Blogs Can Now Be Followed in the Fediverse, Including Mastodon 23
TikTok Fined $370 Million Over Handling of Children's Data in Europe 16
Questions Raised about Quality of Reddit's New Moderators After Protest-Related Purges 131
YouTube Under No Obligation To Host Anti-Vaccine Advocate's Videos, Court Says 281
Chinese Social Media Campaigns Are Successfully Impersonating US Voters, Microsoft Warns 50
China Accused of 'Coordinated Disinformation Campaign' About Fukushima Waste Water in Multiple Countries 114
Ignored by Police, Two Women Took Down Their Cyber-Harasser Themselves 104
'Starfield' Fan Banned From Subreddit For Narcing On Leaker To Cops 127
Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Requiring Parental OK For Minors To Create Social Media Accounts 64
Threads is Now Available on the Web 68
Reddit Launches Moderator Rewards Program Amid Sitewide Discontent 43
A Pennsylvania Court Says State Police Can't Hide How It Monitors Social Media 32
The Feds Asked TikTok For Lots of Domestic Spying Features 48
Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn From Each Other, Research Shows 31
Canada Demands Meta Lift News Ban To Allow Wildfire Info Sharing 170
Close To Half of American Adults Favor TikTok Ban, Poll Shows 102
Snapchat's My AI Goes Rogue, Posts To Stories 13
NYC Bans TikTok on City-Owned Devices 22
Threads App Usage Plummets 64
YouTube is Deactivating Links in Shorts Videos To Combat Spam 54
Meta is Giving Up on Messenger's SMS Feature 21
Raspberry Pis Found In Abandoned Spin Scooters In Seattle 55
Are the Reddit Protests Over? 97
Twitch Streamer in Custody After Giveaway Clogs Downtown NYC with Crowd of Thousands 117
TikTok's Algorithm Will Be Optional In Europe 6
Threads User Count Falls To New Lows 91
Facebook To Unmask Anonymous Dutch User Accused of Repeated Defamatory Posts 71
Reddit Users Heckle Search for New Mods, as Some Mods Move to Lemmy and Discord 73
Most of the 100 Million People Who Signed Up For Threads Stopped Using It 119
Telegram Adds Stories For Premium Subscribers 10
No Apologies As Reddit Halfheartedly Tries To Repair Ties With Moderators 72
Reddit Takes Over One of the Biggest Protesting Subreddits 167
Threads Usage Drops By Half From Initial Surge 167
One of Reddit's Biggest Communities Is Suggesting Users Move To Discord 59
Reddit is Getting Rid of Its Gold Awards System 44
Reddit Removes Years of Chat and Message Archives From Users' Accounts 50
Texas' TikTok Ban Hit With First Amendment Lawsuit 37
Twitter Starts Sharing Ad Revenue With Verified Creators 62
Ohio Plastic Surgeon Loses Medical License After TikTok Livestreams 51
TikTok Videos Are Coming To 3,000 Redbox Kiosks 20
Why the Early Success of Threads May Crash Into Reality 175
Instagram's Threads Surpasses 100 Million Users 79
As BotDefense Leaves 'Antagonistic' Reddit, Mods Fear Spam Overload 68
Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic 99
Cyberpunk 2077 Players Protest Reddit By Posting Nudes 52
Threads Passes 30 Million Sign-Ups In Less Than 24 Hours 110
Twitter Threatens To Sue Meta Over Threads 179
Meta Will Nuke Your Instagram Account If You Delete Threads Profile 86
Macron Accused of Authoritarianism After Threat To Cut Off Social Media During Riots 76
Meta Launches New Social Media App 'Threads' To Rival Twitter 45
Judge Rules White House Pressured Social Networks To 'Suppress Free Speech' 246
AMAs Are the Latest Casualty In Reddit's API War 179
Pornhub Blocks Access in Mississippi and Virginia Over Age Verification Laws 178
Zuckerberg's Quest To Re-Enter China Faces Challenge: His Own Words 13
Reddit Users Are Saying Goodbye To Their Favorite Apps With Tributes and Memes 62
UK Tightens Online Safety Bill Again as It Nears Final Approval 31
Social Media Apps Will Have To Shield Children From Dangerous Stunts 62
Police Need a Wiretap To Eavesdrop On Your Facebook Posts, Court Rules 29
Reddit is Telling Protesting Mods Their Communities 'Will Not' Stay Private 150
Minecraft's Devs Exit its 7 Million-Strong Subreddit After Reddit's Ham-Fisted Crackdown on Protest 91
Decentralized Social Networking App Damus To Be Removed From App Store 30
Google Execs Admit Users Are 'Not Quite Happy' With Search Experience After Reddit Blackouts 72
Reddit Mods Are Calling For An 'Affordable Return' For Third-Party Apps 64
Twitter Hacker Who Turned Celebrity Accounts Into Crypto Shills Gets Prison Sentence 14
Thousands of Subreddits Remain Dark as Reddit Protests Approach Third Week 113
Russian Coup Aided by Telegram, VPNs as Government Blocks Google News 140
Social App IRL, Which Raised $200 Million, Shuts Down After CEO Misconduct Probe 9
Reddit Sales Growth Slowdown Preceded Fight Over New API Fees 36
Facebook To End News Access in Canada Over Incoming Law on Paying Publishers 43
Reddit Ousted Mods After Subreddits Filled With Porn To Protest API Pricing Scheme 121
Some Subreddits Are Now Filled With Porn To Protest Reddit 101
Hackers Threaten To Leak 80GB of Confidential Data Stolen From Reddit 61
Gen Xers and Older Millennials Say They'd Prefer to Live in an Era Before the Internet 284
Is Reddit Dying? 266
Reddit Fight 'Enters News Phase', as Moderators Vow to Pressure Advertisers, CNN Reports 158
Reddit Says It Won't Force Subreddits Back Open 166
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit 'Was Never Designed To Support Third-Party Apps' 224
Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Parental Consent 254
Reddit Communities With Millions of Followers Plan To Extend the Blackout Indefinitely 236
Reddit CEO Tells Employees That Subreddit Blackout 'Will Pass' 299
Reddit is Crashing Because of the Growing Subreddit Blackout 308
TikTok May Have Misled Congress on Handling of US User Data, Say Two Senators 36
US Surgeon General Warns on Possible Social Media Harms for Teens 66
What Instagram's Upcoming Twitter Competitor Looks Like 13
Instagram's Recommendation Algorithms Are Promoting Pedophile Networks 61
Reddit Will Exempt Accessibility-Focused Apps From Its Unpopular API Pricing Changes 38
New York City Sues Kia and Hyundai Over Car Thefts That Went Viral on TikTok 98
Reddit Laying Off Employees and Slowing Hiring Amid Restructuring 56
Reddit on New Pricing Plan: Company 'Needs To Be Fairly Paid' 145
Major Reddit Communities Will Go Dark To Protest Threat To Third-Party Apps 107
Meta Will Test Blocking News For Some Canadians 30
Meta Employees Are Selling the Metaverse, But Not Working In it 48
Meta Requires Office Workers To Return To Desks Three Days a Week 87
Supreme Court Declines To Hear Bid To Sue Reddit Over Child Porn 99
China Deletes 1.4 Million Social Media Posts in Crackdown 88
YouTube is Killing Stories 37
Meta's 'Efficiency' Layoffs Take a Toll on Employee Productivity 49
Surgeon General: There Isn't Enough Evidence That Social Media Is Safe For Kids 137
TikTok Is Suing Montana Over Law Banning the App In the State 71
WhatsApp Allows Users To Edit Messages 17
Are Smartphones Costing Gen Z Crucial Life Experiences? 158
Hundreds of Freelancers Hired to Perform Online 'Catfishing on an Industrial Scale' 52
Instagram's New Twitter Competitor Leaks 25
Content Creators File Lawsuit Against Montana Over TikTok Ban 213
Bluesky Social Just Took a Big Open-Source Step Forward 17
Supreme Court Rules Against Reexamining Section 230 58
Supreme Court Sidesteps Challenge To Internet Companies' Broad Protections From Lawsuits 48
Montana Becomes First US State To Ban TikTok 135
'Virtual Girlfriend' Chatbot Trained on Conversations With Men Starts Talking Mostly About Sex 154
Former ByteDance Exec Claims CCP 'Maintained' Access to US Data 26
Reddit Will Allow Users To Upload NSFW Images From Desktop 21
Major Psychologists' Group Warns of Social Media's Potential Harm To Kids 95
Facebook Has 3 Billion Users. Many of Them Are Old. 102
Singapore Eyes Sweeping Powers To Police Online Content, Apps 11
Slack Announces 'AI-Powered' Conversation Summaries and Message-Writing Assistance 26
Discord Will Force You To Update Your Username 76
Montana's Governor's Changes To TikTok Ban Bill Would Ban All Social Media Entirely 137
Anti-Porn Lobbyists Pressure Reddit To Shut Down Its NSFW Communities 187
Pornhub Blocks All of Utah From Its Site 219
48% of People Under 42 Spend More Time Socializing Online Than Off 37
The Imgur Apocalypse Is Going To Break Large Parts of the Internet 61
Brazil Court Suspends Telegram 16
Meta's Clegg Invokes Anti-China Rhetoric Against TikTok 100
Supreme Court To Decide if Public Officials Can Block Critics on Social Media 81
Can Consumers Break Free of the Tech Industry's Hold on Their Messaging History? 54
Leaker of US Documents Shared More Secrets Earlier in a Discord Group with 600 Members 119
Snapchat's AI Chatbot Is Now Free For All Global Users 11
Jack Dorsey's Bluesky App Is Now On Android 28
Meta Encryption 'Blindfolds' Authorities To Child Abuse, Crime Agencies Claim 84
China Security Unit Targeted US With Fake Social-Media Scheme, Prosecutors Allege 37
US Tech Giants Voice Concern Over India's Fact-Checking Rule 37
Leaked Documents Show Russians Boasted Just 1% of Fake Social Profiles are Detected 69
New Leaked Documents on Discord Reveal More Chinese Spy Balloons 43
Parler Shuts Down As New Owner Says Conservative Platform Needs Big Revamp 214
Montana Close To Becoming 1st State To Completely Ban TikTok 138
Discord Says Cooperating in Probe of Classified Material Breach 24
LinkedIn Will Finally Offer Ways To Verify Your Job 55
Classified US Documents Leaked on 4chan, Telegram, Discord, and Twitter 133
Arkansas House Wants You To Show ID To Use Social Media 42
What If Social Media Were Not for Profit? 152
Scammers are Tricking Instagram Into Banning Influencers 53
Reddit Says It's Banning More People Than Ever in Big Transparency Push 52
ByteDance-Owned Instagram Rival Lemon8 Hits the US App Store's Top 10 11
Senator Rand Paul Opposes TikTok Ban Push in Congress 138
Japan Lawmakers Eye Ban on TikTok, Others If Used Improperly 22
Instead of Banning TikTok, Should We Regulate It Aggressively? 88
The Tinder Car Heist and the Plot For Revenge 30
TikTok Trackers Embedded in U.S. State-Government Websites, Review Finds 46
France Bans 'Recreational Apps' From Government Staff Phones 42
Utah Passes Laws Requiring Parental Permission For Teens To Use Social Media 143
China Reminds US That It Can and Will Kill a Forced TikTok Sale 171
BBC Advises Staff To Delete TikTok From Work Phones 54
Twitch Says It Will Lay Off 400 Employees 19
Teenage Pranks at Japan's Restaurants Lead to AI-Powered Sushi Monitors, Arrests 69
New Zealand To Ban TikTok On Devices Linked To Parliament 14
TikTok's Plan To Stave Off Government Intervention: Flood DC With influencers 48
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear Is Resigning 11
France Plans To Recommend Ministers Give Up TikTok, Other Apps 14
Reddit Has Been Down For More Than An Hour 180
Telehealth Startup Cerebral Shared Millions of Patients' Data With Advertisers 42
Belgium Bans TikTok From Federal Government Work Phones 21
Meta is Building a Decentralized, Text-Based Social Network 107
Google Groups Has Been Left To Die 85
Reddit Tells Court: Film Studios Spewed 'Nonsense' in Demand for Users' Names 36
TikTok Will Limit Teens To 60 Minutes of Screen Time a Day 46
Jack Dorsey-Backed Twitter Alternative Bluesky Hits the App Store As An Invite-Only App 89
TikTok Banned on All Canadian Government Mobile Devices 42
Meta Is Working On 'AI Personas' For Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp 16
Snapchat is Releasing Its Own AI Chatbot Powered by ChatGPT 15
EU Officials Ban TikTok From Employees' Phones 18
Instagram Co-Founders Launch Personalized News App 'Artifact' 15
Google Warns Internet Will Be 'A Horror Show' If It Loses Landmark Supreme Court Case 324
Tumblr iOS Revenue Increased 125% Since Launching Its Parody of Paid Verification 19
Meta Announces Paid Subscriptions Offering Extra Verification, Promotion, Protection, Support 98
'OG Mark' Returns at Meta as Facebook Parent Gives Thousands of Staff Subpar Reviews 81
Instagram is Killing Live Shopping in March 4
The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump 100
Meta Says It Found Source of Unannounced Quest Headset Leaks 5
Sen. Hawley Wants To Create Legal Age To Be Allowed on Social Media 143
Influence Networks In Russia Misled European Users, TikTok Says 121
AI-Generated 'Seinfeld' Show Banned on Twitch After Transphobic Standup Bit 227
Apple Pulls 'Damus' From Its App Store in China 42
TikTok Unveils New US-Based 'Transparency and Accountability Center' 23
Wikipedia Blocked in Pakistan Over 'Sacrilegious' Content 112
Decentralized Social Media Project Nostr's Damus Gets Listed On Apple App Store 24
Documents Show Meta Paid For Data Scraping Despite Years of Denouncing It 11
Instagram's Co-founders Are Mounting a Comeback 54
FBI Probes Snapchat's Role In Fentanyl Poisoning Deaths 65
Senator Plans To Introduce Bill To Ban TikTok Nationwide 160
There's Bipartisan Agreement on One Thing: Ticketmaster Sucks 86
Facing Mounting Criticism, Instagram Launches Notification-Pausing 'Quiet' Mode 22
Documents Show 15 Social Media Companies Failed to Adequately Address Calls for Violence in 2021 80
TikTok Confirms That Its Own Employees Can Decide What Goes Viral 41

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