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Sofia Ongele: Your creative superpowers can help protect democracy
"Democracy is more fun and inviting when you take it into your own hands," says creator and activist Sofia Ongele. Sharing how she's using coding and social media to defend democracy, Ongele invites us to identify our own creative superpowers — whether it's community organizing, making music or telling stories — and use them to cause a ruckus an...
Show HN: Bookface – Modern TypeScript wrapper and MCP for Meta APIs
Hi HN,This is Bookface — a TypeScript wrapper for Meta's developer services, born from frustration at Meta's lack of easy developer integration.The current API libraries you'll find for Meta's products are either very limited (and use hacky browser simulation) or unacceptably old/unmaintained. This is a library that aims to:Interact with Meta's developer services the way Meta intended, although with way more ease.Support all of Meta's platforms (e.g., Facebook,
Show HN: I built a tool to stop my posts from getting shadowbanned
Hey HN,I’m Nikhil (https://nikhilp.online). I've been building projects for the past few years, and decided to build ShillGuard because I kept hitting a wall when trying to share them on platforms like reddit and facebook.I’d spend weeks building something, write a post and get it instantly removed by Reddit’s AutoMod or flagged as spam in Gmail without knowing why.ShillGuard is a Chrome extension that analyzes your draft text in real-time against the specific context of where you
Show HN: React-meta-SEO – Rebuilding SEO for React 19 (3KB, no providers)
I’m a computer engineering student at SPPU. While working on a project with React 19, I realized that the standard libraries we use for SEO (like React Helmet) are still doing things the "old" way.The Problem: Older libraries use a trick called "side effects" to change your page title and meta tags after the page has already loaded. This can cause the title to flicker or make the site feel a bit slower because the browser has to do extra work.The Solution: React 19 added a bu
Show HN: Cosmic AI Workflows – Chain AI agents to automate multi-step projects
Hi, I'm Tony, founder of Cosmic (AI-powered headless CMS and application development platform). We kept running into the same problem: create a blog post with the help of an AI agent, use the output for another prompt to create social posts, then manually post to X, LinkedIn, Facebook. Every single time.So we built AI Workflows — chain multiple agents together and let them run autonomously, with each step receiving outputs from previous steps.Three agent types you can chain:- Code Agents: B
Is social media harmful for kids? Meta and YouTube face trial after TikTok settles suit
Jury selection was scheduled to began in L.A. County Superior Court on Tuesday in the first of a series of closely-watched lawsuits seeking to prove social apps inflict harm on children, but a last-minute agreement by TikTok left uncertainty around how the case would proceed.
Blockbuster social media trial kicks off, with more to come this year
A landmark case against social media giants Meta, Alphabet's YouTube and TikTok is set to begin Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
Barber raped women and filmed victim's distress for social media
Anas Almarjeh wa previously found guilty of two rape charges as well as another of engaging in abusive behaviour.
Melissa Gilbert breaks social media silence after Timothy Busfield's jail release
After husband Timothy Busfield was freed from jail amid his child sex abuse case, Melissa Gilbert is speaking up about this "difficult time." ...
Jury selection underway in landmark social media trial accusing big tech of purposefully designing addictive platforms
Fox News legal editor Kerri Urbahn discusses a landmark trial accusing social media giants of designing their products to hook younger users on ‘America Reports.’ ...
Meta's soaring capex is front and center for analysts ahead of the social media giant's Q4 earnings
Analysts are laser-focused on Meta's AI ambitions and its surging capex spending. The company reports Q4 earnings after the ...
Egypt to adopt restrictions on children’s social media use to fight 'digital chaos'
Egypt's Parliament is looking into ways to regulate children’s use of social media platforms to combat what lawmakers called ...
Social media platforms face trial in California on Tuesday over youth addiction claims
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Meta, TikTok, and YouTube faced trial in California on Tuesday over claims of youth addiction. A ...
French politicians voting on social media ban for under-15s
If the bill is fully passed by politicians in the French Parliament, it could come into effect for the September 2026 school term.
'Major step': French MPs vote in favour of bill to ban social media for under-15s
If the bill passes the upper house it could take effect by the start of France's new school year in September.
Tech giants face landmark trial over social media addiction claims
Defendants include Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, TikTok's owner ByteDance and YouTube parent Google.
Tiktok settles social media addiction lawsuit ahead of trial
The case involves a 19-year-old from California who said she became addicted to social media platforms because of their ...
Is Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Actually Working?
<p>Social platforms have restricted 4.7 million accounts in AUS - but does that reflect success?</p>
US Attorneys General Call on X to Address Sexualized Deep Fakes
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Rocket’s Super Bowl 60 Teaser Finds Lady Gaga Next Door
Rocket Mortgage and Redfin are leaning into something softer for their Big Game teaser