Social Media
Examining the impact, trends, and future of social media on global communication.
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X moves to stop big accounts from stealing content from smaller creators
X is finally taking a harder look at one of the platformβs most annoying creator problems: big accounts stealing content…
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End-to-End Encryption Is Gone From Instagram DMs. Why Now, and What Kenyans Should Do
Meta ended Instagram's end-to-end encrypted DMs on 8 May 2026. Here is why, what changed, and what Kenyans can actually…
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TikTok Removed 820,552 Kenyan Videos in Q4 2025, a 41% Jump From Q3
TikTok removed 820,552 videos and banned 108,752 accounts in Kenya in Q4 2025, with 93,704 flagged as underage users.
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X Now Caps Free Users at 50 Posts and 200 Replies a Day. Is This Censorship by Paywall?
Twitter/X has capped free accounts at 50 posts and 200 replies daily, pushing heavy users toward paid Premium subscriptions.
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WhatsApp Ads Arrive in Kenya: What It Means for the 25 Million Kenyans Who Live on the App
Meta rolls out WhatsApp ads in Kenya inside Status and Channels. How targeting works, why now, and what Kenyan users…
- How To/ Explained
Meta is Set to Overtake Google in Digital Advertising for the First Time Ever in 2026. Here’s How That Happened.
eMarketer projects Meta will earn $243B in 2026 ad revenue, finally overtaking Google after 26 years of dominance.
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YouTube Now Lets You Turn Off Shorts From Your Feed Entirely
YouTube now lets all users set Shorts feed limits to zero minutes, but the setting is dismissible, not absolute.
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WhatsApp usernames rolling out to a limited number of users
WhatsApp has started rolling out usernames to a limited number of users on Android and iOS, marking a major shift…
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Nigeria and South Africa lead in X (Twitter) reply spam, new data shows
If you spend as much time on the platform as I do, youβve probably noticed the bizarre new product development…
- Opinion
Xβs revenue shake-up: Localizing creator earnings or killing the global town square?
Nikita Bier, Xβs Head of Product, dropped a policy bomb yesterday that had the entire platform buzzing, not in a…
- Opinion
Kenya’s 7-second broadcast delay won’t stop hate speech. It will just make it easier to silence the news.
Kenya's MCK is enforcing a mandatory 7-second broadcast delay. The tech can't stop hate speech. But it can silence inconvenient…
- Opinion
X (Twitter) shouldn’t show us posts we can’t reply to
X is officially testing a new feature that allows users to restrict both posts and replies by region or country.…
- News
X just added a dislike button for comments, and Iβm here for the spam cleanup
Iβve been tracking Xβs wild ride since Elon Musk took the wheel in 2022, watching everything from blue-check drama to…
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TikTok Invests KES 25.8M in AI Media Literacy at Nairobi Safer Internet Summit
TikTok invests KES 25.8M in African AI literacy via ad credits, whilst rapidly scaling automated content moderation across the continent.
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WhatsApp Plus is coming back
For years, the name WhatsApp Plus carried a rebellious undertone. It was the forbidden fruit of Android messaging, a modded…
