A number of Reddit forums plan to go dark for two days later this month to protest the company’s decision to increase prices for third-party app developers. From a report: One developer, who makes a Reddit app called Apollo, said that under the new pri…

Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over new pricing for third-party app developers to access the site’s APIs. From a report: Set…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from STAT News: Amid what he called the worst youth mental health crisis in recent memory, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Tuesday warning about social media’s impact on developing young brains. …

According to the Wall Street Journal, TikTok filed a lawsuit against Montana claiming the state’s law banning the app violates the First Amendment. Engadget reports: “Montana’s ban abridges freedom of speech in violation of the First Amendment, violate…

WhatsApp users will now be able to edit messages within 15 minutes of hitting send. Reuters reports: “For the moments when you make a mistake or simply change your mind, you can now edit your sent messages on WhatsApp,” the Meta Platforms Inc-owned mes…

Wired reports on “hundreds of freelancers employed all over the world to animate fake profiles and chat with people who have signed up for dating and hookup sites.” They describe one worker at Cyprus-based vDesk as “expected to lure people into paying,…

Lia Haberman via her ICYMI Substack newsletter appears to have obtained a leaked marketing slide detailing the features of Intagram’s rumored text-based Twitter competitor. The new app, codenamed P92, Project 92 or Barcelona, could arrive as soon as la…

An anonymous Slashdot reader shared this report from Axios:

The Chinese Communist Party “maintained supreme access” to data belonging to TikTok parent company ByteDance, including data stored in the U.S., a former top executive claimed in a lawsuit Fr…

Ahead of Imgur’s ban of sexually explicit content, Reddit announced Thursday that it will allow users to upload NSFW images from desktops in adult subreddits. The feature was already available on the social network’s mobile app. TechCrunch reports: “Th…

For the first time, the American Psychological Association (APA) has issued guidelines for teenagers, parents, teachers and policymakers on how to use social media, with the aim of reducing the rate of depression, anxiety and loneliness in adolescents….