Discovering that someone has created a fake social media profile using your name or photos is a deeply unsettling experience. The four major platforms—Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X—explicitly prohibit impersonation and provide dedicated reporting channels, with three of them allowing reports even without an account. In Spain, creating a fake profile with another person’s image … Read more
A private account narrows visibility; it does not erase you. Instagram and TikTok offer a single toggle, Facebook demands post-by-post audience management, and all three leave a public-facing core that anyone can see — even without logging in. Instagram and TikTok: one private-account switch; Facebook relies on per-post audiences and a bulk “Limit Past Posts” … Read more
Meta has rewritten the commercial terms that bind every business, brand and publisher on its platforms, and the new wording reaches far beyond Facebook and Instagram feeds. From 30 October 2026, companies that advertise, sell or simply run a business Page will authorise Meta to send automated crawlers across the domains and pages “associated with” … Read more
Meta has started rolling out Your Algorithm on Facebook, a feature that lets users describe in their own words what they want to see more or less of across the Feed and Reels. Announced on 13 October 2026, the tool marks the first time the platform’s core ranking system accepts written, natural-language instructions instead of … Read more
Bluesky has formally applied to ICANN for control of its own top-level domain, .bsky, a request that would let users claim addresses such as yourname.bsky that function simultaneously as a social handle and as a real, resolvable web address. The company’s stated goal is to push social identity out of a single platform’s database and … Read more