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Meta Launches Subscription-Free Instagram Tier in EU Following $1.3B Privacy Fine When Meta introduced a “pay or consent” model for European users in late 2023, the company believed

Meta Threads Hits 200M Daily Active Users, Now Outpacing Twitter’s Pre-Musk Numbers In just over a year, Meta’s Threads has accomplished what many tech observers deemed impossible: it

YouTube Rolls Out Mandatory Identity Verification for All Monetized Creators by July The era of anonymous monetization on YouTube is coming to an end. In a move that

Viral ‘De-Influencing’ Movement Costs Beauty Brands $340M in Q1 as Creators Reject Sponsorships The influencer marketing playbook that beauty brands spent a decade perfecting is being rewritten—not by

Viral ‘Invisible Challenge’ TikTok Trend Sparks Privacy Concerns Over AR Filter Data When millions of users point their cameras at seemingly empty rooms to reveal “invisible” friends and

X Rolls Out Encrypted DMs to All Users After 8-Month Premium Exclusivity, Signaling Platform Security Pivot After nearly a year of keeping encrypted direct messages behind a paywall,

Meta Threads Hits 200M Daily Active Users, Now Outpacing Twitter’s Pre-Musk Numbers When Threads launched in July 2023 with 100 million sign-ups in five days, the tech world