According to people familiar with the matter, Instagram is set to launch a competitor to Twitter, and it has been secretly available to select creators for months. Instagram is planning to release a text-based app that will compete with Twitter. The company is currently testing the project with celebrities and
According to The Moscow Times, YouTube is taking down content that features the Wagner Mercenary Group. The Moscow Times’ Russian service is reporting Tuesday that YouTube has begun removing videos about Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, with the the Google-owned video platform explaining in a statement its policies prohibit videos about “criminal and terrorist organizations”. “We
The CIA uploaded a short video in Russian on YouTube and the Telegram messaging app, using them as platforms to recruit Russian spies. After the US Central Intelligence Agency published a video encouraging Russians to make contact via a secure internet channel, the Kremlin said on Tuesday that its agencies
A great Twitter purge is impending as Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted that they are planning to purge accounts that have had no activity at all for several years. Twitter is promising to purge its many inactive accounts. Again. “Twitter will soon start freeing the name space of 1.5 billion
A rumor has spread shortly before the announcement of the company’s new CEO, Linda Yaccarino, that they will turn Twitter into a dating site. Those who rejoiced at Elon Musk buying Twitter are now lamenting his rumoured appointment of NBC executive Linda Yaccarino to be the site’s new CEO. The anons who
Youtuber Trevor Jacob pleaded guilty to deliberately crashing his plane in the California mountains for views in 2021. In December 2021 Trevor Jacob uploaded a video to YouTube titled “I Crashed My Airplane,” a 12-minute video depicting the moment the aircraft’s propellor seemingly stops working and Jacob, the pilot, is forced to
According to a tweet by Elon Musk, Twitter’s new CEO is Linda Yaccarino, who was the Chairman of the WEF’s Taskforce on the Future of Work. NBC confirmed that its head of advertising is leaving the company… NBCUniversal today announced that Linda Yaccarino is leaving the company, effective immediately. Mark
TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has launched a new social media site called Lemon8, amid federal and state efforts to ban or restrict TikTok in the country over national security concerns. In the days after TikTok’s CEO was grilled by Congress for the first time, many TikTok users began posting about an
Jack Dorsey, along with Jeremie Miller, the inventor of the communication protocol Jabber/XMPP, and Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky, are board members creating the Twitter alternative Bluesky. Jack Dorsey is taking another whack at a Twitter-like service with a new social media platform called Bluesky. The service is gaining traction