Discord is making “big changes” to how identities work on the platform, a move that will force you to change your username. From a report: Up until now, the company has appended four-digit tags to identities as a way to distinguish people with the same…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: An anti-pornography group that claims all adult content is unhealthy is taking aim at Reddit, one of the biggest online platforms for sharing porn and sex worker resources. The National Center on Se…

In response to a new law that requires porn sites to verify users’ ages, Pornhub has completely disabled its websites for people located in Utah. From a report: As of today, anyone accessing Pornhub from a Utah-based IP address doesn’t see the Pornhub …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: When you think of digital entertainment, your mind might turn first to online video-streaming services, such as Sling TV or YouTube TV, and video-on-demand services, including Netflix or Acorn TV. However…

The Washington Post reports on “a relatively young app called Beeper that pulls all your chats into one place.” This is significant, the Post argues, because “we’re better off if we have the freedom to pick up our digital lives and move on. Tech compan…

“The Russian government has become far more successful at manipulating social media and search engine rankings than previously known,” reports the Washington Post, “boosting lies about Ukraine’s military and the side effects of vaccines with hundreds o…

rmdingler writes: Montana lawmakers have moved one step closer to passing a bill to ban TikTok from operating in the state, a move that’s bound to face legal challenges but also serve as a testing ground for the TikTok-free America that many national l…

In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, the professional social media platform LinkedIn announced today a set of new verification features that enable users to authenticate aspects of their identities and job histories. From a re…

With no discussion, the Arkansas House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require social media users in The Natural State to verify they’re 18 years old or older to use the platforms. Arkansas Times reports: The proposal, back…

“What would it look like if we called time on Big Tech’s failed experiment?” asks the co-editor of the Oxford-based magazine New Internationalist:

A better social media would need to be decentralized… As well as avoiding a single point of failure (o…