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All social media apps have risks similar to TikTok

03/22/202303/21/2023 John Montgallo

A transparency group is cautioning that the Chinese platform isn’t the only one posing risks. A nonprofit advocacy group called the Tech Oversight Project is urging Congress to hold US social medias accountable ahead of hearing testimony from TikTok’s CEO. The group says the US platforms pose similar national security and mental health risks to TikTok. The nonprofit has stated that Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc.’s social media apps such as Facebook and Instagram, Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc’s products all employ comparable harmful business practices to TikTok. Moreover,…

QR code scans make Instagram post sharing easy

10/27/202210/27/2022 Jennifer Goula

Users can now use quick response barcodes to share their reels, tags, locations and other information. Instagram has announced that it is assigning a unique QR code to every new post made on its app, with the goal of making it easier to be able to share images, reels, tags, and locations on its searchable map. The photo sharing app us using the well recognized and popular barcodes to enhance real world sharing. As a result of the pandemic, QR code barcodes have made their way onto pretty much everything…

Instagram slapped with $400 million fine for weak kids’ data privacy

09/08/202209/07/2022 L. Green

The Meta-owned social media platform was hit with a record fine from Ireland’s regulator. Regulators in Ireland have agreed to hit Instagram with a record fine of $402 million (€405 million) following an investigation into the way the social media platform handled children’s data privacy. A spokesperson for the watchdog group said that the investigation started back in 2020. According to recent reports, Instagram has every intention of appealing against the data privacy fine, citing a Meta spokesperson in a statement issued by email. The watchdog launched the investigation into…

More paid features slated for Meta apps

09/06/202209/02/2022 Sam Lambert

Meta apps - Facebook and Instagram logos

Facebook and Instagram are among the applications that are lining up for additional premium features. A newly established team focused on Meta apps are getting ready to identify and build “possible paid features”, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, according to an internal memo issued to the company’s employees last week that was cited in a The Verge report. The new division of the company is its first step into the development of paid social media features. The company’s social media platforms have billions of active users. That said, the Meta…

Gen Z prefers TikTok and Instagram to Google Search

07/20/202207/19/2022 Sam Lambert

The tech giant is starting to feel the pinch of the generation’s trend toward social media searching. Google Search internal data has found that about 40 percent of Gen Z is using social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram for searching. Gen Z is more likely to head to a social media platform than a search engine to answer a question. A recent report published by Insider stated that Google is now feeling the pain from this growing Gen Z trend of using TikTok and Instagram for searching instead…