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Elon Musk–owned X, formerly Twitter, is facing legal action brought under copyright law in France. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency has announced it’s suing the social media platform over what it calls a “clear refusal” to enter into discussions with it about remunerat

User morale isn’t the only thing that’s down at Reddit. More than 30,000 people have reported outages on Reddit since about 4:30 PM ET, according to Downdetector. While many users have been able to access the platform again, not all issues have been resolved yet. TechCru

The U.K.’s data protection watchdog has responded to Meta’s announcement yesterday that it intends to offer (other) Europeans a free choice to deny its tracking-for-ad-targeting but won’t be asking U.K. users for their consent to its surveillance — with some, er, pointed rem

YouTube mega-success MrBeast is suing Virtual Dining Concepts, the company behind his ghost kitchen food chain, MrBeast Burger, for damaging the MrBeast brand. According to the lawsuit, thousands of fans have sent in negative reviews of MrBeast Burger, many of whom shared photos of burgers and chic

As the battle among would-be Twitter rivals continues, one of the smaller apps to vie for Twitter’s (now X) fleeing user base, T2, has added an in-demand feature that even Meta’s Threads doesn’t yet have: DMs. The company recently announced it added support for direct messages, wh

Update August 1, 2023, 10:50 PM IST: Late Monday, X (formerly Twitter) posted that it is suing The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for allegedly asserting “false and misleading claims about X” and working to “prevent public dialog.”  Free expression is fundamenta

"">Hey, friends, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), technewss's roundup of the week in tech news. Life getting in the way of your daily technewss habit? Not to worry. WiR will get you caught up in no time. This week, WiR covers the improving quality of AI porn generators and the ethical dilemmas

Fan fiction writers aren't just penning alternate universe reimaginings of the Barbie movie, or steamy scenes featuring Marvel superheroes. This week, they're writing letters to their senators, expressing their concerns that the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) could change the internet foreve

New research published Thursday offers an unprecedented dive into political behavior across Facebook and Instagram — two major online hubs where people express and engage with their political beliefs. The studies, published by an interdisciplinary set of researchers working in tandem with interna

Ads are the lifeblood of Big Tech. When the ad market slows as it did last year, companies like Alphabet, Meta, Amazon and even Microsoft suffer. Tech’s biggest businesses have endured a conservative advertising landscape in recent quarters as companies look to conserve cash in this difficult

Bluesky, which has been embattled with moderation issues since its launch earlier this year, appeared to apologize for failing to protect Black users and other marginalized groups on the platform.  In emails responding to users who sent feedback regarding the platform's failure to moderate rac

Facebook has more than 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta’s latest quarterly report. That’s quite the staggering number. Even though Facebook has declined in popularity among younger people, the platform is far from dead. Across Meta’s entire family of apps —

Snap just reported its quarterly earnings and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Snapchat’s parent company brought in $1.07 billion during Q2 — up from last quarter but a year-over-year dip. Snap saw its first revenue decline as a public company in Q1, marking a 7% drop in sales from the prev

Actually, no, I couldn’t even come up with a halfhearted contrarian take. It’s trash. Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’