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Internet culture and social platforms: what is spreading online, the creators behind it and the platforms' new rules.
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Signed in May 2025, the TAKE IT DOWN Act made posting intimate images without consent a crime. Since May 2026, platforms must remove them within 48 hours.
Wikipedia's host told the court in the OpenAI copyright case that model training is likely fair use but copying its pages into chatbot answers likely is not.
Reddit's daily users held at 130.3 million in the third quarter as U.S. users fell 5%, and it warned of a low-double-digit drop if search keeps falling.
Admins of Discord's 63,000-plus Discoverable Servers and their members can opt out now. Server web pages go live November 16, messages from mid-December.
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The European Commission wants 15 as the age for a social media account of your own, plus design rules for games and chatbots. Feedback is open until December 3.
A Pew Research Center survey found 48% of adults under 30 belong to an online community, most often on social media, and many members want politics kept out.
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YouTube is raising Partner Program entry thresholds for new creators and limiting Shorts revenue sharing to channels with 10 million views in 90 days.
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