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Telegram CEO arrested as part of probe into criminal activity in the app
Social Media Today
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The big social media news of the weekend was the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who was taken into custody upon landing in Paris on Saturday morning, as part of an ongoing probe into the role tha...
Five key signs that Reddit is getting ready to launch its own search ads business
Digiday
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When it comes to building out a search ads business, Reddit is staying tight-lipped. But all the recent moves the platform has made suggest that it’s a matter of when, not if, it’ll happen. Among the ...
X launches Grok 2 to boost X premium sign-ups
Social Media Today
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With its ad revenue in decline, and development costs mounting, X is making a new push on its Grok AI chatbot, as it launches the latest version of the tool to paying users in the app. As you can see ...
Meta and Google secretly targeted minors on YouTube with Instagram ads
The Verge
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Meta and Google teamed up to run a secret campaign that deliberately targeted 13 to 17-year-olds with Instagram ads on YouTube according to the Financial Times, breaking the search giant’s own rules a...
Maybe Friend wasn’t crazy for spending $1.8M on a domain after all
TechCrunch
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When AI companion startup Friend revealed it had spent $1.8 million on buying the www.friend.com domain name last week, it set off a debate around what exactly branding is worth, and how startups shou...