Bluesky's latest feature is group chats, arriving amid a shift in focus on building features for smaller communities.

A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.

Learn eight Google Gemini AI prompts that transform ordinary photos into polished portraits for LinkedIn, personal branding, family photos, and more.

Reddit comments now allow videos.

Under a new bipartisan bill, Americans could sue for damages if a government official illegally tries to coerce a social media, AI, or broadcasting company to remove their post - regardless of whether the platform actually does it.

Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the JAWBONE Act on Thursday, which, in addition to letting individuals sue for these kinds of damages, would create new transparency requirements for government communications with social media, AI, and broadcast companies.

That could empower someone like Jimmy Kimmel to sue Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr …

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Elon Musk, on the verge of becoming the world's first trillionaire, is whipping up anti-immigration tensions amid ongoing riots in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Following a knife attack in the city on Monday, Musk declared support for Restore Britain, a hard-right populist political party that advocates for large-scale migrant deportation in the UK. He reposted statements from party leader Rupert Lowe calling for "a vast number of people" to be forced out of the country, as well as a promise from Lowe to "prosecute officials and politicians who knowingly placed dangerous third world savages in our communities." "This is the way," Musk added to …

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Three years ago, when the women's World Cup kicked off in Australia and New Zealand, my social feeds were in a strange place. Twitter had just transformed into X, newcomer Threads was seemingly ascendant, and places like Bluesky had yet to garner much momentum. It left me with an odd, and admittedly silly, dilemma: I had nowhere good to post dumb jokes during games. And now, as the next World Cup is set to begin across Canada, the US, and Mexico, not much has changed.

There were a lot of problems with Twitter even when it was at its most popular, but it also introduced a new kind of live experience for many. Its real-time nature and huge au …

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Bluesky is launching a communities feature this year, according to its head of product.

Bluesky will be getting "communities," which will function as smaller spaces where you can "go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff" sometime this year, according to head of product Alex Benzer. They will be built on the decentralized AT Protocol that underpins Bluesky, with Benzer saying that "it's a new structure for everyone" that's part of the "Atmosphere" (a shorthand for the AT Protocol ecosystem).

Benzer listed out a "few ideas we have in mind so far" in a thread. "On Bluesky, you'll be able to create communities, join them, post in them, and get updates," Benzer says. "The core features on Bluesky stay simpl …

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The regulation also imposes new safety expectations on 'AI chatbot services.'

Months after Australia banned social media for everyone under 16, the British government is considering new policies to keep children safe online.

The UK's communications regulator has reminded social media platforms they have a duty to minimize hateful content, not encourage it.

What happened when livestreaming vigilantes ambushed an innocent man.

Starmer wants to ban children from social media. Jack Watson, 17, argues the Government is making a serious mistake – in his experience, the benefits of social media outweigh the costs.

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Maybe it wasn't a great idea to let 14-year-olds post videos to Spotlight in the first place.

The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over accounts using a bug in the company’s new artificial intelligence software.

Starmer is set to ban under-16s from social media altogether within days – with fines for mobile phone manufacturers that don't comply.

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The British Film Institute assembled the memes in an archive of culturally significant internet moments. See what made the cut.

Johnny Hilbrant Partridge has found social media fame as PE Guy, a character who embodies obnoxious entitlement.

Celebrities and paid influencers have transformed the career-focused platform, which for some users, has become a job unto itself.