<p>When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber took the SXSW stage this week, she managed to make fun of Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning Meta at all. Her black T-shirt was emblazoned with black text stretching across the chest and sleeves, similar to the style of a T-shirt that the billionaire founder wore at an event last year. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>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. With this new monetization option, creators can earn money from content that they are already producing and sharing if they post [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meghan Markle is launching a new podcast entitled “Confessions of a Female Founder,” which will hear the duchess talking about her entrepreneurial journey. It will also feature talks with other female founders about the reality of building a business, according to People magazine. The show will premiere April 8th on Lemonada Media and will have [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Next week, Meta will begin one of the company&#8217;s most significant overhauls ever for how it fact-checks information on its platforms. On March 18, Meta will start releasing its version of Community Notes for Facebook, Instagram, and Threads users in the United States. The program copies a crowdsourced fact-checking system that Twitter unveiled in 2021 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Snapchat is introducing its first-ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap&#8217;s in-house-built generative video model. The three new AI Video Lenses are available to users on the app&#8217;s premium subscription tier, Snapchat Platinum, which costs $15.99 per month. The launch comes as Snap unveiled an AI video-generation [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TikTok announced on Tuesday that it&#8217;s rolling out new features to protect teens on its app. The social network is giving parents the ability to block their teen from using TikTok during certain hours and see their teen&#8217;s following and followers lists through new Family Pairing features. TikTok is also going to encourage young users [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Speaking at the SXSW conference in Austin on Monday, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said the social network has been working on a framework for user consent over how they want their data to be used for generative AI. The demand for AI training data means the new social network has to think about its AI [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s X was inaccessible on Monday morning for thousands of users, including many in the U.S. After about eight hours of outages, Musk posted that the platform is facing a &#8220;massive cyberattack.&#8221; &#8220;There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bluesky now allows videos that are up to three minutes long, the decentralized social network announced on Monday. The platform launched support for video back in September with a 60-second time limit. With the new expanded time limit, Bluesky is bringing its user experience more in line with its competitors, X (formerly Twitter) and Meta&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Two initiatives to create a more open web, where users are in control of their own digital identities and data, may be coming together. At SXSW 2025, entrepreneur Frank McCourt, whose Project Liberty is developing open internet infrastructure (and is throwing its hat in the ring as a potential buyer for TikTok), announced that his [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When Bluesky CEO Jay Graber walked onstage at SXSW 2025 for her keynote discussion, she wore a large black T-shirt with her hair pulled back into a bun. At first glance, it might appear as though she&#8217;s following the same playbook that so many women in tech leadership have played before: downplaying her femininity to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Surf, the new app from Flipboard for browsing the open social web, is expanding its support for Bluesky&#8217;s social network. On Monday, the company announced a new version of its beta software (dubbed &#8220;Blue Wave&#8221;) which allows users to log into the app using their Bluesky credentials and then see all their Bluesky feeds in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at OpenAI potentially charging $20,000 a month for a specialized AI agent, the unexpected return of early-internet darling Digg, a company genetically engineering mice to have mammoth-like fur, and more! Let’s do this. OpenAI could charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI “agents.” [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The downsides of doomscrolling and screen addiction are well documented, but while many of us would like to spend less time glued to a smartphone, it&#8217;s easier said than done. Much has been written about the so-called dumbphone revival, where individuals regain some respite from pings and push notifications by downgrading to a basic feature [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Twitter alternatives — new and old — have found audiences willing to try out a newer social networks since Elon Musk took over the company in 2022. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill and T2 are some of the social media platforms people are among them. So is Meta&#8217;s Threads platform. What is Threads? How do you create [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta&#8217;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 feature will also direct users to active conversations about the topic. The company thinks [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Just weeks after Google said it would review its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, the Google for Startups Founders Fund web page is peppered with changes. Most notably Google is now using past tense to describe all of its fund programs for underrepresented founders.  This is a change that took place after December, according to the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With the rise of AI companions who serve as online friends or romantic interests, experts are questioning how the technology affects our real-world social connections and relationships. According to Kasley Killam, author of the social health-focused book &#8220;The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health Is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>X is actively working to expand the reach of xAI&#8217;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. Users of the Elon Musk-owned social media platform could already access Grok through a button [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Reddit announced on Thursday it&#8217;s introducing a set of new tools to make it easier for users to participate on its platform. The features are designed to help users find communities, ensure their posts don&#8217;t break any rules, and understand how to contribute across the social network. Combined, the features are meant to enhance the [&hellip;]</p>