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A stranger's photo has been on Snap CEO's Wikipedia page for a week
A tech worker discovered their face mistakenly on Evan Spiegel's Wikipedia page — and neither Wikipedia nor Spiegel seem to care.
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ai
AI Giants Funded Influencer Campaign to Push Pro-AI, Fear China
A super PAC backed by OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz executives paid TikTok creators to promote AI development while framing China as a threat.
ai
Women sue men who used Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers
Four women claim their Instagram content was scraped to build AI-generated adult influencers without consent.
social media
Instagram Will Penalize Low-Effort Content in Your Feed
Meta's Instagram is cracking down on repetitive, unoriginal posts — but automatically detecting what counts as 'original' is harder than it sounds.
reddit
Reddit search usage jumps 30% as platform evolves
Weekly search users are up 30% year-on-year, Reddit's CEO said Thursday, marking a shift in how people use the platform.
algorithms
YouTube's Algorithm Favoring Russian Over Kyrgyz to Kids
YouTube's recommendation system pushes Russian content to children in Kyrgyzstan even when they search for Kyrgyz-language videos, raising concerns about cultural preservation.