@boris@cosocial.ca“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
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@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgNot that many people here will need it, but as an indicator it's interesting:
In case you're looking for an alternative New Year resolution, Denmark has a new people's movement: Danmark skifter, Denmark switches, which aims to help people regain focus, change their social media habits and get off US big tech platforms.
Here's their English website:
https://danmarkskifter.dk/en/
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialAnother complaint about @… (and any other platform that shows video) where is the scrubber!?
I *always* want the ability to easily scrub forward and backward when a video is playing. Always.
Other platforms do this and I hate it.
At least in a desktop browser you can pop out the video to access the scrubber.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: https://uddannelse.social/@jeppe/115819500905513985
Worth translating. The Danes are planning to move off of US tech bro platforms.
@frankel@mastodon.topI started building an application to schedule posts across multiple social media platforms. Details are irrelevant to this post. Suffice to say, modules are running in a #Docker container on my #SynologyNAS at home. It’s access it when I’m at home. However, I’ll soon travel to Australia for weeks, and …
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialNathan FIllion & Alan Tudyk were once spacemen. Since co-starring on #Firefly, they have also been aliens, mystery writers, veterinarians, superheroes, chickens, robots & policemen.
▶️ Once We Were Spaceman Podcast - feat. #NathanFillion &
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTim Sweeney says it "makes no sense" for stores like Steam to label games that are made using AI, since AI "will be involved in nearly all future production" (Alex Forbes-Calvin/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-sweene
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineLike financial transactions, barter transactions are treated as taxable supplies for VAT purposes as well in the EU.
Italy has considered that handing over personal details in exchange for services, as e.g. in the case of Facebook, is barter, and therefore VAT-able. If they succeed in making that work, other EU member states are bound to follow. Big tech platforms are worried, especially as the EU Commission agrees with the Italian stance. Interesting.
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzWell, whattyaknow: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72183413/1/dawson-v-meta-platforms-inc/ looks like my past speculations about Meta & WhatsApp's encryption - though vociferously challenged by many committed WhatsApp users - might well be grati…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt’s amazing how much of Wendy’s music isn’t available on streaming platforms. Vinyl it is!
@seeingwithsound@mas.toFrom microelectrode arrays to all-optical and multimodal neural interfaces: emerging platforms for spatiotemporal interrogation of in vitro neural circuits https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/synaptic-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnsyn.2025.173…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange"US law enforcement has been investigating allegations by former Meta Platforms Inc. contractors that Meta personnel can access WhatsApp messages, despite the company’s statements that the chat service is private and encrypted"
https://www.bloomberg…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotFeeling a bit excited to be sitting in on an online EU event featuring Mastodon's Philip Schroepel [@…] - about building sovereign digital public spaces - a key issue at this time.
@cdarwin@c.imSelf-hosting is becoming popular among a certain kind of user,
-- say the typical readership of ItsFoss.
There is a simple explanation for this shift:
people want their data, dollars, and destiny back.
Centralized platforms optimized for engagement and extraction are colliding with real-world needs
— privacy, compliance, predictability, and craft.
Linux, containers, and a flood of polished open-source apps have turned what used to be an enthusiast’s pro…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: the NFL won't allow prediction-market ads during Super Bowl LX on February 8, but sports betting ads are allowed, reportedly limited to six total ads (Ben Horney/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/nfl-wont-allow-prediction-ma…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online"…the world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms & log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse & Mastodon.
Calls for public institutions to invest in digital sovereignty are increasing across civil society. The term digital sovereignty means that an institution has autonomy & control over the critical digital infrastructure, data, & services that make up their online prese…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGood news, any progress in more federated social media is a good thing in my view.
https://openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky-dawns-building-infrastructure-for-sovereign-social-media/
@hex@kolektiva.socialI'm trying to play through the implications of some software I've been thinking about maybe designing.
It's legal to make a digital copy of the media that you own (videos, audio) physical copies of. It's legal to give a physical copy of your media to someone else or loan it out, which transfers your viewing license while they have It. Then it should also be legal to let someone else use a digital copy of your media given that you don't also use it at the same time. So as long as you keep track of your license, you should be able to let exactly one person stream some media you own.
If someone else then "steals" that content and views it without a license then that has to be legally on them, otherwise streaming platforms would be liable whenever someone cracks some DRM.
So then, it should be completely legal to set up a local community media library streaming service where you can share content you own licenses to as long as you track your license count and don't let more people stream at any given time than there are licenses available.
Is there something obvious I'm missing (aside from the MPAA and RIAA don't care about the law and will just sue anyone they can just to make an example)?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDeezer makes its AI music detection tool available for businesses to buy and says daily deliveries of AI tracks averaged 60K in January, ~39% of total uploads (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/870186/deezer-ai-music-detection-commercial…
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialFrance plans to stop using US-based video conferencing platforms across its government departments by 2027.
Under the plan, a domestically developed video meeting service known as Visio will become the standard tool for public servants, with full adoption expected next year.
https://www.
@danyork@mastodon.socialSomehow I don’t see this going so well. I understand the desire to charge to fund local content… but it will be interesting to see if the global streaming platforms agree to this.. or just decide to leave Australia. 🤔
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-…
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialMaybe we should stop calling these platforms "social media" if they're going to aggressively attack the social aspects that made their platforms work. https://mastodon.social/@verge/115967498909692370
@mro@digitalcourage.socialWhat is a #platform after all?
In our case it’s a part of the www having one owner and many users usually not affiliated otherwise. The owner being the sole source of rules and execution thereof, covering financial loss or benefit. Usually without a democratic process, but arbitrary, self-invented rules and policing.
They have in common a
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 34 nodes and 99 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
@petaqui@masto.esAhora que sigan todos
@… https://mastodon.social/@eunews/115967803781924499
@chiraag@mastodon.onlinehttps://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-india-alternative-ai-llms/
Thanks @… for sharing!
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple's Q1 sales in greater China surged 38% to $25.5B; Tim Cook attributed the increase to users upgrading and switching from other platforms to iPhone 17 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@UP8@mastodon.social🥵 Reservoir thermal energy storage offers efficient cooling for data centers
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-12-reservoir-thermal-energy-storage-efficient.html
@steve@s.yelvington.comVietnam cracks down on unskippable YouTube ads
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us-streamers/vietnam-to-force-youtube-and-other-platforms-to-allow-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like addictive feeds to show warning labels about mental health impacts on young users (Andre Revilla/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/new-
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThe Trump regime imposed sanctions on HateAid from Germany, for its support for victims of hate and intimidation on the social media platforms owned by Trump's billionaire buddies. You can follow HateAid here: @…
@patrickquin@furry.engineerI am not understanding how ngl.link works. They don’t seem to host answers like ask.fm did or Tellonym does. They want you to post answers on other platforms, which is commendable, but I have no idea if and how anyone gets notified if their particular question answered.
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialFediverse Punk Month — We can grow something better!
We invest too much of our culture in centralized, for-profit, corporate social media platforms. These platforms enrich billionaires, expand surveillance, and fund the cult of capitalist war, all while trapping us with addictive algorithms that feed us mindless content. […]
— by @…<…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaFPF Releases Updated Infographic on Age Assurance Technologies, Emerging Standards, and Risk Management
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-releases-updated-infographic-on-age-assurance-technologies-emerging-standards-and-risk-m…
@cdp1337@social.bitsnbytes.dev@monicaadisson@mastodon.social You'll have to be more specific, I maintain a number of different platforms.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialMeta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
Users of Meta’s social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-blocki
@danyork@mastodon.socialSomehow I don’t see this going so well. I understand the desire to charge to fund local content… but it will be interesting to see if the global streaming platforms agree to this.. or just decide to leave Australia. 🤔
https://deadline.com/2025/11/australia-…
@cdarwin@c.imKyle Tharp, a progressive writer and researcher writes the "Chaotic Era",
a newsletter about politics, media and online influence.
Tharp launched the Chaotic Era in January, just days before Trump’s second inauguration.
Over the past year, he has tracked the surge in liberal media projects, mapped the rise of
left-leaning creators on platforms like YouTube and
analyzed the narratives that managed to break through the digital noise
@aardrian@toot.cafeIf I didn't need iOS 26 for testing, I’d have waited a few point releases. Fixing years of tech debt is good, but has to frustrate those who updated but might have wanted to wait.
“Apple to focus on ‘quality and underlying performance’ with iOS 27 next year: report”
https://
@trezzer@social.linux.pizzaOrion: A new privacy-forward WebKit browser for Apple platforms by the team behind Kagi: https://blog.kagi.com/orion (Linux and Windows support incoming)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and "will discontinue its services and operations in China" (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn
@newsie@darktundra.xyzAmid Backlash, Massive Porn Platform ManyVids Doubles Down on Bizarre, AI-Generated Posts https://www.404media.co/manyvids-ai-generated-posts-bella-french-porn-site/
@pre@boing.worldNot sure what the difference between a panel and a"fireside chat" is. There is no fire.
But here's a fireside chat on what nostr is.
Nostr is freedom for Identity. Accounts without hosts. Publishing without publidhers. Censorship resistance without platforms deciding who gets to say what.
It's not a silo in which you can be tapped as the service enshitifies, since it's a protocol with accounts you control, you can't switch clients or relays without loosing social graph or contacts.
Nostr is notes and Other Stuff, what other stuff? the panel is working on an audiobook publishing system with perhaps a required payment and affiliate revenue share. E-commerce, video publishing, zap stream for live video with zap payments.
Onboarding can be tricky with private key management needing to be understood and such a range of options of clients and what relays are. Can we make it easier?
Perhaps by abstracting away the fact it's nostr at all. Devine users don't even know they are using nostr. But this robs users of the understanding they may need to move clients or use the same account for video and notes, say.
Perhaps by making a private messagnger, the panel thinks people are used to using multiple messenger apps. Though I find they hate that, and that's why they refuse to install signal. They feel they don't need it since they already have WhatsApp with a bigger network.
In the end it's education. We have to teach literacy so people can read and write, we have to teach public keys encryption so people can do so securely.
#bitfest #nostr
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"When #billionaires own major media outlets, “news” becomes something closer to state messaging. Not because the government controls it, but because the financial class that funds political power also owns the platforms that shape public perception."
#kleptocracy
Legacy M…
@waidler@bayerwald.socialSo - jetzt habe ich erst einmal ein Backup-und Maintenance-Script für die PixelFed-Instanz #pixelfed
@vosje62@mastodon.nlHet wordt dan misschien ook eens tijd dat de Nederlandse em Europese politiek zich meer terugtrekt van netwerken waar dit soort zaken plaatsvinden.
De aanwezigheid van politiek en overheid geeft deze platforms een legitimiteit die ze door de manipulatie niet verdienen.
https://bsky.app/profile/mathijsbouman.nl/post/3maqcl57byk25
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialSo Intel have added a so-called On-Die Certifying Authority (ODCA) with ME gen 3 version 15 based platforms.
That is also explained in the recent CSME whitepaper.
I figured that the FTPR CPD manifest contains a new extension now for certificate revocation, including a URL to CRL data.
That extension's data itself is encoded as ASN.1 DER, so I need yet another parser. Uh-oh... which one should I choose, does anyone have recent experiences to share? 🙃
I am checking t…
@marcel@waldvogel.family«“One SIM card can be used for hundreds of different platforms,” said Dek. “Vendors recoup SIM costs by selling high-demand verifications for apps like Facebook and Telegram, then profit from the long tail of other platforms.”
Additional analyses show global stocks of fake accounts are highest for platforms such as X, Uber, Discord, Amazon, Tinder and gaming platform Steam»
#FakeProfiles
@heiseonline@social.heise.deÖsterreichs Höchstgericht verbietet Meta Platforms' Geschäftsmodell
Nach 11 Jahren steht fest: Meta Platforms personalisierte Werbung ist unzulässig, Datensammlung auf Drittseiten ebenso. Metas Auskünfte sind viel zu bescheiden.
@profcarroll@federate.socialMark Zuckerberg and other executives will pay $190M to the company in a settlement with shareholders who brought suit to recover damages from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal that reverberated out of Trump’s first term. Ensures that he, Sandberg, Andressen, Thiel, et al shielded from deposition, trial. https://<…
@benb@osintua.euUkraine hits Russian drilling platforms in Caspian Sea, military reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/ukraine-hits-russian-drilling-platforms.html
@kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name> Consumer-protection organisations call for tighter rules, while online platforms such as Tik ToK argue that there is only a very limited need for further regulatory intervention.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative
@danyork@mastodon.social@… In my mind the competition is with the big global centralized platforms… and so any decentralized systems are welcome! Different communities will form on different platforms. And if this brings some of the enthusiasm from BlueSky and gets people using decentralized systems (assuming they do make it more decentralized), then in the big picture, …
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialWhat instant communication, thread-based platform do you use at least once a month?
Just trying to get an idea of the popularity of different options - multiple choices possible, please boost around!
If you think we should add some choices, please cite them in comment and I'll do a 2nd poll. They would have to be similarly thread / themes / channel - based, with a phone app but also available in the browser (e.g. maybe Matrix? But website-only platforms like Discourse would not work…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 511 nodes and 35013 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
@Stomata@social.linux.pizza @lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzMigrating a large accretion of complex blog post content between platforms is a draining & thoroughly demoralising experience. It turns out that we, as web developers, are capable of creating byzantine platforms which give diligent blog writers the ability to create hours and hours of unrewarding work that is so cryptically & diversely broken that no script can be written to make sense of the mess.
Enjoy your holidays if you're in a cultural context where that sort of thin…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFrance plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with French-made and Outscale-hosted Visio by 2027, as part of a push to drop US software vendors in government (Pascale Davies/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/f
@heiseonline@social.heise.deBill Gates’ Terrapower liefert Meta Platforms Atomreaktoren
Meta Platforms hat einen AKW-Lieferanten gefunden: Die von Bill Gates gegründete Firma Terrapower. Sie will 2 bis 8 Reaktoren liefern.
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/tikto…
@cdarwin@c.imSex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated.
Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had
a “17x” strike policy
for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialEU lawmakers agree on new rules that hold platforms like Meta and TikTok liable for financial scams that have been reported, requiring them to compensate banks (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/social-media-giants-meta-tik…
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineResponding to hate-speech on hate platforms is futile. Even posting such responses on platforms such as X, however tempting it may be, is lending support to them and amounts to collaboration with the haters.
https://www.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 1034 nodes and 26749 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
@benb@osintua.euUkraine strikes Lukoil drilling platforms in the Caspian Sea and Russian military sites: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/ukraine-strikes-lukoil-drilling-platforms.html
@heiseonline@social.heise.deMittwoch: Freifahrtschein für Meta Platforms, Microsoft mit neuen KI-Agenten
Meta ohne Monopolstellung Microsofts überwachte KI-Agenten Kommentar zum Cloudflare-Ausfall Souveränitätsgipfel in Berlin Bit-Rauschen zum P4-Jubiläum
@newsie@darktundra.xyzHouse Energy and Commerce Committee unveils new draft children’s online safety bill https://therecord.media/house-commttee-unveils-new-kosa-bill
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMemo: WaPo won't send sports staffers to cover the Winter Olympics in Italy, as it assesses financial priorities for 2026, following reports of expected layoffs (Benjamin Lindsay/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like autoplay and addictive feeds to show mental health warning labels for young users (Felix Day/WRGB)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialClover Security, whose AI agents plug into developer platforms like GitHub to predict and detect security flaws, raised $36M led by Notable Capital and Team8 (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/25/clover-security-funding-wiz-crowdstrike-no…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEtwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Österreichs Höchstgericht: Personalisierte Werbung Meta Platforms’ unzulässig
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPlex starts to enforce a rule requiring users to pay for a Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass to stream from a remote server on Roku; other platforms follow in 2026 (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/pl…
@cdarwin@c.imNY Senate Bill 4505 Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications;
directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label
Bluesky=Facebook
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA critique of a large UK social media study that suggested measures like social media bans are unlikely to have an effect on teens' long term mental health (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-screen-time-manchester-study-haidt/<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta blocks users from sharing links to ICE List, which compiles names of DHS staffers; Meta cites a policy against "asking for personally identifiable" info (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-blocking-links-t…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAnalysis: among the top 50 news websites in the US and the UK, 34% blocked all major AI training bots; 14%, including Fox and Substack, allowed access to all (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ei…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deZum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Österreichs Höchstgericht: Personalisierte Werbung Meta Platforms’ unzulässig
@cdarwin@c.im“More music is being released today (in a single day) than was released in the calendar year of 1989,” Page explained.
“More of that music is being done by artists themselves, meaning there’s even more demand for music production software.”
It’s true,
the rise in musicians goes hand-in-hand with the rise of music-making software and music-distributing platforms.
Now that making high-quality recordings is possible from the palm of your hand
— and sharing them i…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/tikto…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deEinige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Österreichs Höchstgericht: Personalisierte Werbung Meta Platforms’ unzulässig
@cdarwin@c.imTech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory
that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power
not rooted in the common good,
but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the “Nerd Reich”
— a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like
Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
Tesla an…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% Facebook, 50% Instagram, 37% TikTok, 32% WhatsApp, 26% Reddit, 25% Snapchat, 21% X, and 8% Threads (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-202…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-autonomous-threat-analysis/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta launches prompt-based sound separation model SAM Audio in its Segment Anything Playground, letting users isolate individual sounds from complex recordings (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/16/meta-pla…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBusiness Insider joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace pilot, which compensates publishers when their content is used in AI-generated results (Barbara Peng/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/announcing-our-new-ai-partnersh…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPolitico Global EIC John Harris tells staff he will move into a new role as chairman and begin a search for a new EIC, who will be named "at some point in 2026" (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/jo
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October (Kiran Rathee/The Economic Times)
https://econom…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Indian startups like TuluAI, which are building LLMs for low-resource languages by creating data sets nearly from scratch with community involvement (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-india-alternative-ai-llms/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA survey of US adults on social media: 84% use YouTube, 71% use Facebook, 50% use Instagram, 37% use TikTok, 32% use WhatsApp, 26% use Reddit, and 21% use X (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA new bipartisan Senate bill amends Section 230 to make commercial social media platforms responsible if their recommendation systems cause foreseeable harms (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/824054/algorithm-accountability-act-section-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several social media addiction lawsuits (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-20/c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappet
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFox News hires Palantir to build tools that help journalists produce stories across Fox platforms and social media; Fox won't use AI to generate editorial copy (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/fox-news-palantir-ai-newsroom-tools
<…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMeta, TikTok, Google, and YouTube sue California over a new law that prohibits personalized feeds for minors without parental consent, claiming it violates 1A (Bernie Pazanowski/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/states-of-p…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU's General Court dismisses Amazon's request to remove its designation as a Very Large Online Platform under the DSA; platforms with 45M users qualify (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US judge rules Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp don't violate antitrust law, as the FTC failed to prove the deals let Meta monopolize the market (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-wins-ftc-antitrus…
