YouTube Outage, World Survives
Some of you may have noticed, some of you may have not, YouTube went down yesterday. This reporting is unusual. Numerous times when something less consequential goes down, tech blogs blow their sites up with…
Category: Social Media
Meta Blocks Links to ICE List
As a surprise that will come to no one, Meta has blocked links to the ICE List. I know, right? To be honest, I’m surprise it took this long. Mark Zuckerberg has blocked links in…
TikTok Settle Teen Addiction Lawsuit
Ahead of their trial, TikTok has chosen to settle before it began. This comes on the heels of Snap settling last week. They were part of a major lawsuit, along with Meta and Google, regarding…
TikTok Has Some Issues to Say the Least
Unless you have been buried under a rock this last weekend, you probably heard that TikTok has been hitting the shitter. Within days of the US taking control, it went down faster than Elon taking…
Instagram User’s Info Leaked
It wouldn’t be a new year if we didn’t have our first report of a hack of Meta. We have reports of Instagram having their latest hack. Many of you would’ve noticed this if you…
Reddit to Restrict the Wayback Machine
Everything is about money. Yet, bootlickers will defend corporations like it was their business. One of the best ways to see what changed regarding a website has been limited when it involves Reddit. Let’s be…
American TikTok App Coming This Fall
This will they, won’t they thing going on with TikTok is getting a bit tiresome. When then-President Joe Biden signed into law that ByteDance had to either sell TikTok to an American company or be…
Social Security Comms Moving to Twitter
I know the title of this post says “Twitter”. I will never call it that other name. Ever. If you hate helping seniors with their technological questions, be prepared for more. In something that is…
Reuters Retracts Fake Tariff Story
One of the shows that I loved during the 2010s was The Newsroom. It was Aaron Sorkin’s view of how news media is going for being first rather than being right. While some people will…
Meta Starts Community Notes Today
Starting today, Meta will no longer fact-check posts on Facebook, Threads, or Instagram. However, the only fact-checking that I have personally seen on Meta is when someone posts anything that counters conservative talking points. Posts…
TikTok Gets Last Minute Extension
Over the weekend, news was going to send many social media influencers into a tizzy. TikTok was suppose to either sell or be shutdown. However, it seemed that didn’t happen. Unlike what TikTok did back…
YouTube Demonetizes Fake Trailer Channels
I strongly believe that social media’s demise started when you can make money for your content. Much of social media was designed to bring people together and expose people to different kinds of thinking. Much…