7 d. ago Inside Nicola and Brooklyn's secret SECOND wedding. Beckhams not invited to 'do

A friend of the couple says: 'Nicola may post a picture at some point, but they are in no rush. This was done for their friends and family to enjoy themselves. That's why she didn't post right away.'

Society

8 d. ago ‘Commodifying themselves’: the ordinary people posting Instagram sponcon to profit off friends

Users can make thousands a year by sharing links to their favorite items online – and they only need about 1,000 followers to qualifyShelbi Howell, a 32-year-old stay-at-home mom, lives in a small town outside of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. She is not, in any traditional sense, an influencer. Like millions of other women around the world, she posts her daily outfits to TikTok, where she has a frankly paltry 1,624 followers, and Instagram, where she has 1,251. Yet despite being in every sense an ordinary woman on the internet, Howell estimates that she has made more than $500 just from posting to social media.She does this by posting a video of her outfit or her makeup and reminding viewers – many of whom are people she knows personally – that they can buy the same item via a link in her bio. Continue reading...

Politics

9 d. ago Instagram users are horrified by new feature that allows your friends to see which posts you've liked

You might want to start being more careful about what you like on Instagram. The social app is introducing a new feature that may reveal your most embarrassing thoughts and desires.

Politics

1 week ago Instagram and Facebook Messenger down as hundreds of users suffer Meta outage

The outages are understood to have occurred earlier this afternoon (August 5), with hundreds of people ranting about their problems with the platforms on other sites

Technology

1 week ago Woman arrested in dawn raid by Met Police in a riot van after Facebook post about her cop ex

Sarah had been told by a friend about a Facebook post in a local group which warned about the behaviour of men they have dated.

Events

1 week ago ‘The brain responds like it’s a physical injury’: Why posting photos of friends on social media without their consent sparks rifts

As more of us share our lives online, Olivia Petter asks whether we need to act with caution when it comes to posting photos of our friends

Events

last month Meta argues its AI needs personal information from social media posts to learn ‘Australian concepts’

Tech giant said posts from Australian Facebook and Instagram users were ‘vital learning’ about ‘concepts, realities, and figures’Meta has urged the Australian government not to make privacy law changes that would prevent the company using personal information taken from Facebook and Instagram posts to train its AI, arguing the AI needs to learn “how individuals discuss Australian concepts”.In a submission to the Productivity Commission’s review on harnessing data and digital technology, published this week, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp argued for a “global policy alignment” in the Albanese government’s pursuit of privacy reform in the AI age. Continue reading...

Politics