<p>Ofcom, the U.K.&#8217;s internet safety regulator, has published another new draft guidance as it continues to implement the Online Safety Act (OSA) &#8212; the latest set of recommendations aim to support in-scope firms to meet legal obligations to protect women and girls from online threats like harassment and bullying, misogyny, and intimate image abuse. The [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Do you sometimes refer to X by its old name, Twitter? That&#8217;s okay. Even Elon Musk, the man who changed Twitter&#8217;s name to X, still occasionally refers to the social media platform he runs as Twitter. &#8220;Twitter added far more features with fewer people,&#8221; said Musk in a post on X Monday. The owner of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TikTok, including its Chinese counterpart Douyin, in 2024 became the first non-game app to reach $6 billion in in-app purchase revenue in a year. According to a new report from app intelligence provider Sensor Tower, TikTok also generated a record high of $1.9 billion in gross in-app purchase (IAP) revenue in the fourth quarter of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta is phasing out its third-party fact-checking programs in the U.S. while it reintroduces a bonus program for creators, which pays them for viral content. The timing of these changes at Meta could intensify the prevalence of misinformation, according to ProPublica. In the past, content creators could not monetize posts that fact-checkers deemed false; but [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta has formally expanded Meta AI to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), opening the AI-enabled chatbot to millions more people. Back in October, Meta announced it was launching Meta AI in six additional markets, including Brazil and the U.K. At the same time, the company teased gradual rollout plans for additional markets around [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Photo and video apps targeting young adults with social hooks are a dime a dozen these days, so those that show traction with 18-twentysomethings tend to catch the attention of investors looking for the next Instagram or TikTok. In the latest example, photo-sharing app Yope, which lets you share still images to private groups, says [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at the internal chaos surrounding HP’s $116 million acquisition of AI Pin maker Humane; Mira Murati’s new AI venture coming out of stealth; Duolingo killing its iconic owl mascot with a Cybertruck; and more! Let’s get into it. Humane’s AI pin is dead. The hardware [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Social media giants Meta and X approved ads targeting users in Germany with violent anti-Muslim and anti-Jew hate speech in the run-up to the country&#8217;s federal elections, according to new research from Eko, a corporate responsibility nonprofit campaign group. The group&#8217;s researchers tested whether the two platforms&#8217; ad review systems would approve or reject submissions [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta is expanding in India, despite recent layoffs of what the tech giant controversially deemed &#8220;low performers.&#8221;</p>

<p>A study by the Pew Research Center found that Americans&#8217; views of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg skew more negative than positive. While Zuckerberg has sparked chatter in Silicon Valley with his sudden interest in high fashion, the Meta CEO is less popular than President Trump&#8217;s right-hand man, Elon Musk, the report found. While about [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Meta announced in a blog post on Thursday that it&#8217;s now accepting sign-ups for its Community Notes program on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. The announcement follows Meta news last month that it&#8217;s going to end its third-party fact-checking program and is instead moving to a Community Notes model similar to the one at X. In [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Instagram is introducing a new way for creators to work with brands to make money by recommending products. On Thursday, Meta introduced an addition to its Partnership Ads called Testimonials, which allows creators to get paid via written endorsements, shared as comments on the brand&#8217;s social media posts and advertisements. This can include both Feed [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As TikTok&#8217;s future in the U.S. remains uncertain, Substack tries to lure creators to its platform by doubling down on video. The company announced on Wednesday that it&#8217;s now allowing creators to monetize their videos on the platform, and letting them publish video posts directly from the Substack app. Previously, creators have been able to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Twitch on Wednesday announced it will begin limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads, and will delete content if a channel exceeds the limit. The company said it&#8217;s introducing the change because highlights haven&#8217;t been effective in driving discovery or engagement, and because storage is costly. The storage cap goes into effect on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Patreon has continued on its crusade against algorithmic feeds with its latest State of Create report, a look at trends in the creator economy based on internal data, and it&#8217;s an effort creators can get behind. In its survey of 1,000 creators and 2,000 fans, the membership platform reported that 53% of creators think it [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial far-right political bias in Germany ahead of a federal election that takes place Sunday, according to new research carried out by Global Witness. The non-government organization (NGO) undertook an analysis of social media content displayed to new users via algorithmically [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Instagram is upgrading its direct messages, also known as DMs, with a handful of new features that make its messaging system more competitive with alternatives, like Apple&#8217;s iMessage and other third-party apps. On Wednesday, Instagram users globally will gain access to tools to translate messages across 99 languages, tools to schedule and pin messages to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s X is in talks to raise money from investors at a $44 billion valuation, Bloomberg News reports. Musk purchased X, formerly known as Twitter, for the same price back in 2022. The news comes as Fidelity Investments marked down its Twitter stake back in December by around 70% from the 2022 sale price [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Hours after Elon Musk&#8217;s AI company xAI released the latest version of its AI model, Grok 3, X has significantly hiked the price for its top Premium+ subscription plan, which gives users access to the latest model, to almost $50 per month. On the support page that lists X&#8217;s premium plans, the monthly subscription price [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Facebook announced on Tuesday that live videos will now only be stored on the social network for 30 days, after which they will be deleted. Previously, these videos were stored indefinitely. The change goes into effect on Wednesday. All live videos that are currently older than 30 days will be removed from the platform as [&hellip;]</p>