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Latest Social Media News & Updates
Social Media Trends to Watch
- Snapchat takes aim at Partiful with new event-planning features
- Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?
- X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money
- Apply now to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
- Friend-focused photo-sharing app Retro snags $21M
- Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India
- Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral
- Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data
- Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in town
- Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well
- Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web
- Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states
- Meta settles for $18B in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children
- Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos
- X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping
Tips for Staying Ahead in Social Media
- Instagram Chief warns against eliminating algorithms
- X rolls out number code access for DMs
- Meta expands Community Notes to Latin America
- Instagram lets users add tagged posts to profile grids
- Snapchat expands Dynamic Product Ads to Sponsored Snaps
- Snapchat adds event creation tools
- X adds new anti-lawsuit provision to terms of service
- Meta keeps trying to make digital assistants happen
- Pinterest shares insights into men’s trends
- Snap CEO discusses ad development and AI
- Meta launches Muse personal AI
- Pinterest renames campaign objectives to simplify ad focus
- Will removing algorithmic sorting improve social media?
- Australia moves to enable algorithm opt-outs
- YouTube expands Watch With to more creators