Social Media
Samantha Murphy Kelly
Snapchat’s new AI chatbot is already raising alarms among teens, parents
Snapchat's new AI chatbot is facing backlash not only from parents but also from some Snapchat users who are bombarding the app with bad reviews in the app store and criticisms on social media.1 year ago
Associated Press
Twitter verification reappears, but some disavow Musk’s mark
Celebrities and other high-profile Twitter users are once again being verified by the social media platform and they don’t know why the blue check marks reappeared.1 year ago
Barbara Ortutay, AP Technology Writer
Are you a Facebook user? You could get some settlement cash
Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time since May 24, 2007, can now apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta has agreed to pay.1 year ago
Barbara Ortutay
Twitter removes policy against deadnaming transgender people
Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.”1 year ago
Rob Gilles
CBC ‘pausing’ Twitter after ‘government-funded media’ label
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation says it is pausing Twitter after the social media platform stamped its account with a "government-funded media” label.1 year ago
Matt O'Brien
NPR quits Elon Musk’s Twitter over ‘government-funded’ label
National Public Radio is quitting Twitter after the social media company branded them as a "government-funded media" company.1 year ago
Haleuya Hadero and Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press
TikTok CEO grilled by skeptical lawmakers on safety, content
A nearly six-hour grilling of TikTok’s CEO by lawmakers brought the platform’s 150 million U.S. users no closer to an answer as to whether the app will be wiped from their devices.1 year ago
Kelvin Chan
TikTok CEO to tell Congress app is safe, urge against ban
TikTok’s CEO plans to tell Congress that the video-sharing app is committed to user safety, data protection and security, and keeping the platform free from Chinese government influence.1 year ago
Bridger Beal-Cvetko
Salt Lake County bans TikTok on government devices
The Salt Lake County Council voted last week to ban TikTok on devices it owns, becoming the latest government entity to limit use of the app.1 year ago
Jill Colvin, Associated Press
‘I’M BACK!’: Trump returns to Facebook after reinstatement
Former President Donald Trump has returned to Facebook after a more than two-year ban.1 year ago
Barbara Optutay
Elon Musk apologizes after mocking laid-off Twitter employee
After a former Twitter employee couldn't access his work computer and Twitter's HR couldn't tell him if he was an employee anymore, he did what is what's considered the new normal in Twitter: tag Elon Musk in a tweet.1 year ago
Associated Press
Twitter glitches as links, images fail to load
Twitter is experiencing a bevy of glitches as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and Tweetdeck stopped working for others.1 year ago
Bridger Beal-Cvetko
Efforts to curb youth social media use clear Utah Legislature, await governor’s signature
A pair of social media regulations got final approval in Utah. One requires parental consent for minors to join social media and another makes it easier to sue social media companies.1 year ago
Brian Fung
Sen. Mike Lee says his personal Twitter account was suspended
The personal Twitter account belonging to Sen. Mike Lee was suspended for an hour before being reactivated after tweeting about it on his government account.1 year ago
Michelle Chapman, AP Business Writer
TikTok sets new default time limits for minors
TikTok says every account held by a user under the age of 18 will have a default 60-minute daily screen time limit in the coming weeks.1 year ago
Brian Fung
Canada bans TikTok on government devices
The Canadian government is banning TikTok from official electronic devices in light of cybersecurity concerns.1 year ago
Dee-Ann Burbin
Meta testing new subscription service for verified accounts
Meta is testing a new subscription service that would let Facebook and Instagram users pay for a verified account.1 year ago
Ramishah Maruf
Twitter to charge for SMS two-factor authentication
Twitter Blue subscribers will be the platform's only users able to use text messages as a two-factor authentication method, Twitter announced Friday.1 year ago
KSL TV
Sunday Edition: Social Media Bills, GSL Bills, and Online Safety Bill
This week on Sunday Edition, Doug Wright sits down with Utah Lawmakers at the State Capitol to dive into some of this year's big legislative issues.1 year ago
Farnoush Amiri and Barbara Ortutay
Ex-Twitter execs deny pressure to block Hunter Biden story
Former Twitter executives conceded to Congress that they made a mistake by blocking a story about Hunter Biden, the president’s son, from the social media platform in the run-up to the 2020 election.1 year ago
CNN
Twitter users briefly unable to tweet, send messages
Twitter users on Wednesday briefly encountered various issues with the platform, including the inability to tweet, send direct messages or follow new accounts.1 year ago
Pat Reavy
Utah sex offender charged with kidnapping teen girl from Arizona he met on TikTok
A West Valley man previously convicted of sexually extorting a teen girl is now charged with driving to Arizona to take a different teen girl back to his home in Utah where he sexually assaulted her.1 year ago
Andy Rose and Nouran Salahieh
Oregon man suspected of kidnapping, beating a woman may be using dating apps to evade police
Oregon police are warning that a man suspected of kidnapping a woman and beating her unconscious may now be using dating apps to evade capture or find potential new victims.1 year ago
