An anonymous reader shares a report: Would people pay nearly $14 a month to use Instagram on their phones without ads? How about nearly $17 a month for Instagram plus Facebook — but on desktop? That is what Meta wants to charge Europeans for monthly s…

Indonesia said it will bar social media companies from allowing transactions and doubling as e-commerce platforms — all to prevent misuse of public data. “This means that users in Indonesia cannot buy or sell products and services on TikTok and Facebo…

An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:

In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others — with the acquisiti…

An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:

In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others — with the acquisiti…

Reddit’s forum about home food canning used to have two moderators with science-related master’s degrees. And Reddit’s home automation forum used to be moderated by a former IT worker with decades of networking experiencing — and some training fr…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts, preventing the st…

Tuesday Mark Zuckerberg shared a photo on Instagram with “actual footage of me building Threads for web.” And now ZDNet reports that Zuckerberg’s photo is available on his new Threads page on the web.

“As of Thursday, Meta’s new platform is fully acc…

Amid growing discontent among Reddit’s moderators, the company has launched a “Mod Helper Program” to reward moderators who offer helpful advice to other moderators. TechCrunch reports: The Mod Helper Program is a tiered system that awards helpful mode…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state police can’t hide from the public its policy on how it monitors social media. Advocates for civil liberties cheered the decision. T…

William Brady writes via The Conversation: People are increasingly interacting with others in social media environments where algorithms control the flow of social information they see. Algorithms determine in part which messages, which people and whic…