Instagram’s new Instants app is basically Snapchat all over again

Instagram launches Instants, a new app for sharing disappearing photos and videos, offering a Snapchat-like experience focused on private, real-time interactions.

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.

Meta will let parents see children’s chats with AI and intervene before risks spiral

Meta is giving parents weekly topic summaries of their teens’ Meta AI conversations across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram.

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.

‘An Artificial Earthquake’: Japan Quake Misinformation Spreads Online

Misinformation about Japan’s recent earthquake has been spreading online, leading communications minister Yoshimasa Hayashi to issue a warning.

X is going to let Grok curate your timeline
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 […]

5 LinkedIn Carousel Structures That Consistently Go Viral

Your carousel posts could be generating leads every single week. Stop making slides nobody swipes and start using the five formats that consistently go viral on LinkedIn.

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
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 an eye while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Crenshaw was in rarefied company, listed among the magazine’s candidates […]

Bond wants AI to cure your doomscrolling, then monetise your memories
Bond wants AI to cure your doomscrolling, then monetise your memories

In short: Bond, a new “post-feed” social network founded by former Index Ventures principal Dino Becirovic and ex-Google DeepMind researcher Arthur Brazinskas, launched on 21 April with no infinite scroll and no algorithmic feed, instead using AI train…