What ‘Love Island USA’ New Social Media Policy Means For The Show’s Marketing Machine

‘Love Island USA’ Season 8 is already Peacock’s biggest original launch in history. While the Islanders’ accounts are silent, the show has never been louder.

TikTok feeds show 3 times more AI slop than YouTube, study reveals

A new Kapwing report found that 59% of videos shown to new TikTok accounts are AI slop, roughly three times the rate found on YouTube.

The smartphone era created an attention crisis. Slowtech is fixing it

“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention… They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”

How YouTube Golfers Are Going For Serious Green

Popular creators like Good Good Golf and Manolo Vega believe they know how to make the sport more fun while making millions along the way—in some cases even more than tour pros.

Threads makes it easier to find your community and tune out what you don’t want to see

Threads is rolling out upgrades to its Communities feature and a new feed personalization tool called Your Algo.

Threads hits 500 million users, and adds a feed control even X doesn’t have
Threads hits 500 million users, and adds a feed control even X doesn’t have

Meta’s Threads has crossed 500 million monthly users, the company said on Tuesday, almost exactly three years after it launched to chase Elon Musk’s X. That is 100 million more than last August, and it puts Mark Zuckerberg halfway to the 1 billion-user…

How will the UK’s social media ban actually work? Here’s the full list of affected apps — and 5 things you need to know

The UK social media ban is one of the most significant pieces of tech legislation in the modern era — but how is it going to work?

Facebook now has an answering genie for all your burning questions, just like Google Search

Meta is rolling out AI Mode on Facebook, a new feature that uses Meta AI to answer questions by pulling from public content across Meta apps, rather than returning standard search results.

Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts
Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts

Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta’s new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the “AI Mode” option will appear alongside the usual search modes like “People” and “Marketplace.” It’s one of several new AI features Meta is rolling out starting today, including photo presets that swap sports jerseys onto […]

LinkedIn just produced its most unlikely success story: a World Cup footballer
LinkedIn just produced its most unlikely success story: a World Cup footballer

Most LinkedIn messages lead to sales pitches, recruiter spam, or polite rejections. Roberto ‘Pico’ Lopes got a World Cup call-up. The Dublin-born Shamrock Rovers defender made history on Sunday when he started for Cape Verde against Spain in the countr…