WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features, including member tags
You can choose a tag that gives others in the group chat more context about who you are.
Spotify now lets you share what you’re streaming in real time with friends
You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.
Roblox now requires all users globally to complete age checks to access chat
Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a similar age group.
Threads is developing in-message games
Launching in-message games would give Threads an edge over competitors like X and Bluesky, which don’t offer built-in games.
French and Malaysian authorities are investigating Grok for generating sexualized deepfakes
France and Malaysia have joined India in condemning Grok for creating sexualized deepfakes of women and minors.
India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over “obscene” AI content
India’s IT ministry has given X 72 hours to submit an action-taken report.
A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative
Unless if you’re really in the know about nascent platforms, you probably didn’t know what Mastodon was until Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X. In the initial aftermath of the acquisition, as users…
Fizz social app’s CEO on why anon works
Fizz is betting that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the dominant social platform on college campuses across the US,…
Tade Oyerinde and Teddy Solomon talk about building engaged audiences at TechCrunch Disrupt
Founders Tade Oyerinde and Teddy Solomon spoke at Disrupt this year about keeping communities engaged.
Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say
“I think that 2025 was the year where the algorithm completely took over, so followings stopped mattering entirely,” LTK CEO Amber Venz Box said.