Meta Faces High-Stakes Legal Battle Over Alleged Exploitation and Addiction of Youth Users
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Meta Faces High-Stakes Legal Battle Over Alleged Exploitation and Addiction of Youth Users

A landmark legal battle has commenced in Oakland, California, as Meta faces accusations of intentionally designing its platforms, Facebook and Instagram, to hook young users. The trial, which is expected to span six weeks, represents the most significant legal challenge the social media giant has encountered to date. Initiated by a coalition of 29 U.S. […]
Bluesky Defends Against Major DDoS Attack Following Day-Long Outage
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Bluesky Defends Against Major DDoS Attack Following Day-Long Outage

Decentralized social media platform Bluesky recently experienced a significant day-long service disruption, which has now been confirmed as the result of a coordinated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Over a 24-hour period, malicious actors flooded the platform’s servers with massive volumes of artificial web traffic, rendering the service temporarily inaccessible to its rapidly growing user base. […]
Spotify Enhances Social Listening with New Playlist Notes Feature
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Spotify Enhances Social Listening with New Playlist Notes Feature

Spotify has officially introduced ‘Playlist Notes,’ a new feature designed to foster deeper connections between listeners and their curated content. Building upon the recently launched ‘User Notes’ functionality, this update allows users to attach personal commentary to individual songs, podcast episodes, and audiobooks within their playlists. Whether documenting a specific memory or explaining the significance […]
Inside X’s Major Code Release: How Users Can Now Check for Shadowbans
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Inside X’s Major Code Release: How Users Can Now Check for Shadowbans

Social media platform X has taken a significant step toward digital transparency by open-sourcing its core ranking engine and the popular “For You” algorithm. Published on GitHub under the Apache v2 license, the newly released codebase is roughly 10 to 15 times larger than previous disclosures. It includes detailed model configurations, filters, and the specific […]