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Meta is introducing new privacy and parental control settings for Instagram accounts of users under the age of 18. The changes include automatic private accounts, interaction restrictions, and time limits.

Apple has amended the App Store policy in the EU, allowing developers to promote offers directly in applications. New fees were introduced: 5% for user acquisition and 10% for retail services during the first year.

YouTube is integrating Google Gemini to help creators generate ideas, titles and thumbnails for videos. The new 'Brainstorming' feature is designed to gauge the preferences of content creators and give the platform an edge over competitors.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced his intention to remove WhatsApp and switch to Telegram and WeChat. He accused WhatsApp of being used to threaten Venezuela.

In the women's compartment of the Zaporozhye-Yasinya train, a ticket was sold to a man who was supported by the conductor. After the complaint of passengers to the hotline, the man was taken out of the car, Ukrzaliznytsia is investigating the incident.

The European Commission has signed an agreement with Tik Tok to withdraw the TikTok Lite Rewards program from the EU. The company has pledged to close the app and not try to circumvent the ban, otherwise it faces a fine of up to 6% of its annual turnover.

The Kremlin has launched hundreds of Telegram channels in 30 languages to spread propaganda after blocking Russian media in the West. The audience of these channels can reach 15.7 million users.

The Olympic Village in Paris offers a variety of pastries, but chocolate muffins have become a favorite treat for athletes. Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen even proclaimed himself the 'Olympic Cupcake Man' on TikTok.

Chinese company ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has lost its appeal against the European Union's decision to recognize the digital company as a “gatekeeper” - a platform with special influence - under the EU's new law on digital markets.

According to a report by Finnish analysts, TikTok search results during the European election campaign contained discriminatory and xenophobic content against women, minorities, and marginalized groups, which contributed to the spread of harmful stereotypes and misinformation.

McDonald's suspends its AI ordering system after customers report errors, such as adding bacon to an ice cream order.

More and more young people in the United States are opting for professional education and skilled working professions such as electricians, plumbers, and construction workers. Young people are interested in good wages, self-employment opportunities and the popularity of such professions. This is confirmed by the data of views on social networks such as Tik Tok and Instagram.

Tik Tok was unable to detect 16 commercials containing misinformation about the European Parliament elections created by Global Witness, and approved them due to a moderator error, despite violating the rules.

Former US President Donald Trump, a likely Republican candidate in the 2024 election, has joined TikTok. He posted his first video on a platform that he had previously tried to ban.

Moscow openly admits that it plans to use Ukrainians who fled to Europe for propaganda purposes against Ukraine, using them to portray the Russian Federation caring for them, unlike Ukraine.

In Ukraine, residents of three regions who spread Kremlin narratives on social media, praised Putin and justified the crimes of the Russian army in Bucha were sentenced to 5 years in prison.

The daughter of a fallen Ukrainian soldier founded the Olimp sports club in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Vinnytsia Oblast, to honor her father's memory and provide children with a place to recover physically and psychologically during the war.

TikTok is testing a new feature that allows individual users to upload videos up to 60 minutes long, opening the door to longer content such as full episodes and lessons.

Millionaire blogger Oleg Mushakovsky has started making video content with a green marmoset as his pet, which is causing outrage among animal rights activists. They warn that this stimulates the black market for exotic animals.

The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether Meta's Facebook and Instagram violated the Digital Services Act by failing to protect minors from addictive algorithms, inappropriate content, and privacy violations.

France declares a state of emergency in New Caledonia amid violence over electoral reform.

In Zurich, a 12-year-old child was seriously injured during a stampede when an Oracle ticker dropped 24,000 Swiss francs from a drone in a park.

According to the study, only 6 out of 6,568 videos positioned as news were real news.

The Kremlin is using bot attacks, accusations of money laundering, and deliberate fakes related to Nazism to try to discredit Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest and prevent it from winning.

TikTok could face a ban in Turkey due to concerns about inappropriate content sharing on the platform, especially the need to protect children and youth, according to the head of the parliamentary digital media commission.

The Security Service of Ukraine neutralized a network of pro-Kremlin propagandists operating in different regions of Ukraine who publicly justified Russia's armed aggression, praised Putin, called for the restoration of the USSR and created fake videos discrediting the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

TikTok and ByteDance have sued the US government to block a law that could potentially ban TikTok in the country, claiming it violates the First Amendment to the Constitution and unfairly singles out the platform.

British intelligence assessed the activities of Chechen units during Russia's war against Ukraine.

32 Ukrainian journalists are being held captive in Russia, and negotiations are underway for their immediate release, the acting Minister of Culture and Information Policy said.

TikTok briefly became available again in Russia, but then was partially blocked again, and users could not post videos or go live.