Is Meta doing enough to protect teens on Instagram? Latest features address “sextortion,” where scammers befriend a teen, ask for nudes and then blackmail. Insta says it will block screenshots of ephemeral messages and nudge teens before they send nudes. wapo.st/4dL27AN

philosophical texts from your dad. i’ll go first:

"This week, many said on the social network they were shocked by the former president’s words and confused why the episode wasn’t a dealbreaker in 2016." Tatum Hunter washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

"#Trump’s ‘grab them’ comment was history. Now #TikTok is showing it to young voters." Story by Tatum Hunter for The Washington Post. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

NEW: The Harris campaign was TikTok gold. Were all those coconut memes for naught? I talked to strategists on both sides of the aisle about TikTok's role at the polls. The app is influential, they said. But campaigns, the media and users have a poor sense of what's actually

NEW: Location sharing is straining our friendships, families and romances, users say. But the feature has become so expected and normalized, it’s getting harder to opt out. Is it too late to claw back our privacy and protect our relationships? washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

NEW: The type of conspiracy-thinking that used to brew in small corners of the internet is now a second language for all of us. Here’s what drone panic says about this moment — when paranoia jumps across political lines and online bubbles. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

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Dems are making a last-minute push to not have TikTok go dark on Biden's last day, only to be potentially 'saved' by Trump Reality is most Dems backed the TikTok law, as did most Republicans, Biden signed it, and Trump too once pushed for a ban. Most of DC had a part in this law

Some hair stylists, bridal shops, and hardware stores say AI generated "inspo", taken from platforms like Pinterest, is warping customers' sense of reality (@tatum_hunter_ / Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/technology/202… techmeme.com/250224/p4#a250… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Tinder's flirty AI men wanted me to be polite but not boring, funny but not threatening. I wonder where they learned that? 🤔 wapo.st/4ljxnMg

People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to "glow up" their appearance (@tatum_hunter_ / Washington Post) washingtonpost.com/technology/202… techmeme.com/250526/p16#a25… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

I think you could make the argument that none of this is true

The Venn-diagram overlap of "People who accused Biden of censorship" and "People accusing Trump of censorship" is a tiny, lonely territory sandwiched between warring nations. I wrote about the free-speech warrior who could be its new mayor.

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