The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) push to register foreign apps threatens to remove Facebook, Instagram and X from Apple’s App Store in China. Yoko Kubota for The Wall Street Jorunal: ‎ China’s move to restrict the apps would close a loophole in the Great Firewall that allows Chinese iPhone users to download popular Western social-media apps such as Instagram, X (formerly called Twitter), Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp. While China has for years blocked web access to those sites, iPhone users who download the services’ apps can engage on the platforms if they log on through a virtual private network, or VPN, that connects them to an internet server outside the country. Many users, especially younger people, do this even though…

The first phase of the European Union's groundbreaking new digital rules will take effect this week. Some online platforms have already started making changes.

The first phase of the European Union's groundbreaking new digital rules will take effect this week. Some online platforms have already started making changes.

The first phase of the European Union's groundbreaking new digital rules will take effect this week. Some online platforms have already started making changes.

When Threads arrived in early July, people created 100 million accounts almost immediately, funneled there straight from Instagram. Then it quickly declined, likely because it was artificially, unnaturally, and inorganically grown in the shifting sands of a mismatched set of users. Meta’s Threads icon Ellen Huet for Bloomberg news: On Twitter, I follow loads of journalists and news sources. On Instagram, I favor friends and visual creators — dancers, textile artists and illustrators. Threads tried to make a Twitter replacement out of my Instagram social graph, and personally, it’s falling flat. Fancy footwork on Instagram doesn’t often translate to pithy one-liners or important news flashes on Threads. In its first few days of life, Threads cashed in on Instagram’s scale…

The Threads social network from Meta today received its first significant update that introduces a range of new features that improve the functionality of the social network. Updates include a tab for seeing who follows you so you can follow them back, an option to subscribe to unfollowed users, improvements to activity feed loading times, and translation option to translate posts that are in a different language. Instagram software engineer Cameron Roth shared a full list of new features on Threads.- 👓 translations! - 👥 follows tab on activity feed - 🔔 subscribe to unfollowed users - ❤️ activity feed scrolling + loading improvements - 👀 following + on thread replies page - 👆 tappable reposter labels - 📸 open…