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UK forces Meta to halt its forced sale of Giphy
The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has ordered the country’s antitrust watchdog to review the decision to order Meta to sell Giphy.
Elon Musk asks court to delay Twitter trial start to February 2023
Elon Musk’s lawyers allege Twitter is pushing for an unreasonably fast trial over allegations the Tesla and SpaceX CEO improperly ended his $44 billion bid to buy the social media platform.
TikTok's global security chief is stepping down amid US user data controversy
Roland Cloutier is moving into a 'strategic advisory role.'
Twitter and Elon Musk have their first court hearing on July 19th
Twitter and Elon Musk have the first hearing in their takeover dispute on July 19th,
GLAAD: Social media platforms don't do enough to protect LGBTQ users
GLAAD's latest social media report condemns Facebook, Twitter and TikTok over their alleged lack of LGBTQ protections.
Meta's first human rights report defends the company's misinformation strategy
Meta has unveiled its first human rights report, and it focuses heavily on justifying Facebook misinformation policies.
Twitter suffers worldwide outage
Twitter has reeled from another outage that made the social network inaccessible for many people.
Reddit won’t make you pay to comment in GIF form anymore
Most subreddits can switch them on for all their community members starting today.
TikTok will age-restrict some videos from teens' feeds
TikTok is introducing a new ratings system called "Content Levels" that will age-restrict certain types of "mature" cnotent for teens between 13 and 17.
Now everyone can ‘unmention’ themselves from Twitter threads
Twitter is opening its conversation-leaving feature to everyone. with "unmention."
New York law requires gun permit applicants to submit social media accounts for review
Under a new law, those seeking a permit need to show they have the 'character and conduct' to be trusted with a firearm.
Meta sues a site cloner who allegedly scraped over 350,000 Instagram profiles
Meta is taking legal action against two prolific data scrapers
Twitter sues India to challenge government order to block content
After more than a year of rising tensions over the country’s sweeping 2021 IT law, Twitter is suing India’s government.
TikTok tells senators how it plans to beef up data security for American users
A Republican FCC commissioner recently called on the service to be removed from US app stores.
Niantic's Campfire social AR app rolls out for 'Pokémon Go' players
Niantic has begun rolling out Campfire, a social app that will let users chat with their friends, join groups of like-minded mobile wanders, and arrange major events like Pokemon Go's raids.
YouTube introduces new tools to battle comment spam and account imitators
Channels will no longer be able to hide their subscriber counts.
Snapchat+ is a new $4 monthly subscription service for 'passionate' users
Snap is launching an optional subscription service offering "exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features," it announced.
Twitter brings its closed caption toggle to Android and iOS
But it will only show up for videos if captions have been provided for them.
Instagram is testing an AI face-scanning tool that can verify your age
Instagram is testing new age verification methods including asking followers to vouch for your age and even using AI that can estimate your age.
TikTok's big-screen app lands on Vizio TVs
Other smart TV brands including Samsung and LG already offer the app.

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