Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting — Toxic and hateful comments on YouTube have been a constant headache for the company, creators and users.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Facebook expands its Professional Mode, giving all creators globally a chance to earn money with various tools, including Reels Play bonuses and subscriptions — Meta has announced the global expansion of its professional mode profile setting on Facebook to all creators.
Bloomberg:
Elon Musk’s revived $44B Twitter acquisition could rely on $12.5B from banks at a time when offloading risky debt is difficult, potentially leading to losses — Elon Musk’s shock proposal to proceed with his acquisition of Twitter Inc. for the original offer price poses a headache …
TechCrunch:
BrandTotal and Unimania agreed to a permanent injunction banning them from using and scraping Facebook and Instagram, and will pay a “significant financial sum” — Facebook parent Meta has settled a lawsuit in the U.S. against two companies that had engaged in data scraping operations …
James Vincent / The Verge:
Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, pending a ruling in the future; most answers are wrong on closer inspection — Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Some YouTube users say the service is asking them to purchase a Premium subscription to watch videos in 4K, a feature that is currently free for all users — YouTube’s Premium paid subscription includes benefits like ad-free viewing, video and song downloads for offline consumption, and background plays.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Un1feed launches the OG App, available on iOS and Android, offering an ad-free and suggestion-free Instagram feed, similar to Twitter lists — Instagram is currently a mess and users — including Kim Kardashian — are unhappy about it. The company is trying to cram too many features like Reels …
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