Jack Dorsey-backed Vine reboot Divine launches to the public
Divine, a Vine reboot backed by Jack Dorsey’s nonprofit, revives six-second looping videos.
Social Media
Consumers lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports
The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased eightfold, and that social media scams resulted in higher losses than any other method scammers used to contact consumers.
Conspiracy theories are swirling about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting
On Saturday evening, a room full of journalists, media personalities, and senior members of Donald Trump’s administration descended into chaos as gunshots rang out at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Nobody was hurt, and the suspect was taken into custody – but it didn’t take long for a narrative of doubt to take hold online. […]
Instagram has launched another Snapchat clone
Instagram is testing a new dedicated app that’s focused around Snapchat-like photo sharing features. The app, called “Instants,” was launched in Italy and Spain yesterday, Business Insider reports, and allows users to send each other disappearing photos that are available for 24 hours and can be viewed only once during that window. The app is […]
Meta is revamping its cross-app management system
Meta’s Accounts Center will transition to the Meta Account, which is supposed to make it easier to manage your experience on various Meta apps and devices.
X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam
X Communities are no more. Only a fraction of X users were using Communities, and much of that use was spam, the company said.
X is going to let Grok curate your timeline
X is putting its AI chatbot, Grok, in charge of your timeline. In an announcement on Wednesday, X product head Nikita Bier says Premium subscribers on iOS can get early access to a feature that allows users to pin specific topics to their home tab, which Grok will then use to curate the posts you […]
X makes it more expensive to post links through its API
Posting links on X through its API is now 1,900% more costly
Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw
In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEAL who’d lost his legs while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Crenshaw was in rarefied company, listed among the magazine’s candidates […]
X makes it 1,900 percent more expensive to post links
Posting links to X through custom social media software just got a lot more expensive. On Monday, X significantly increased how much it costs to post a URL via the X API, which is what third-party tools use to hook into the platform. It now costs $0.20 when a link is posted, up from $0.01. […]