Thursday, November 12, 2026
Thursday, November 12, 2026

Social Networks

Social Networks

WhatsApp Explains Why People You Never Added Can Sometimes See Your Status

I recently came across a WhatsApp status from someone we’re in the same group with, even though we’ve never interacted. It confused me because I thought we had both saved each other’s numbers. Turns out that’s not how it works. You do not need to have each other’s contacts saved to see a status in some cases. WhatsApp, the Meta-owned platform, has admitted it is running a small test that lets users share their status updates with all the people they’ve saved in their phone’s contacts, even when those contacts that have not saved the user back. Users concerned about privacy loss noticed the feature and raised questions with the messaging platform on X. “We’re running a small test where people can share their status with people they’ve saved in their contacts, including those who haven’t saved them yet,” WhatsApp responded to concerned users. . Visibility for status updates has always relied on the intersection of both parties’ address books. This test broadens sharing to all contacts a user has saved, even when those contacts haven’t added the user themselves. WhatsApp says the experiment is limited in scope while it assesses user response and any potential privacy implications. You need

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The Deepfake Watchlist: Week of May 8–14, 2026 – Resemble AI

The Deepfake Watchlist is Resemble AI's weekly surveillance of synthetic media incidents, ongoing cases, and disputed content shaping the news cycle. Each week we track confirmed incidents, emerging attack vectors, and claims under investigation, alongside the provenance, detection, and policy threads running underneath them. ★ Featured: The four AI-generated financial journalists Press Gazette's investigation Prolific finance journalists facing questions over identities , published May 12, documented that four prolific freelance bylines (Nikolai Kuznetsov, Reuben Jackson, Luis Aureliano, and Joe Liebkind) who together published more than 1,000 articles across Forbes, HuffPost, CoinTelegraph, VentureBeat, TheStreet, and more than 30 other outlets, used AI-generated or stolen headshots and consistently promoted cryptocurrency clients of the same Israeli PR firm, Market Across. Category: Fraud / Impersonation Type: Attack Modality: Image Policy / Regulatory: No US or EU statute currently addresses synthetic journalistic personas; defamation and breach-of-contract law would govern any direct enforcement, and Section 230 likely shields the publishing platforms from liability for the freelance identity verification failures. Trend: AI-generated identity fabrication moving up the credibility stack from individual impersonation to byline impersonation, with publishing infrastructure unable to verify freelance contributors at scale. Attack vector: AI-generated profile photos paired with sparse but persistent online identities

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Meta launches WhatsApp ‘incognito’ mode to address privacy concerns for AI chats

Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it's rolling out an "incognito" mode for WhatsApp users to have private conversations with its AI chatbot, a move intended to ease privacy concerns about sensitive information that users share in chats. The social media company said in a blog post that incognito chat mode provides a way to have private, temporary conversations with Meta AI, its artificial intelligence assistant that's been available on WhatsApp for a few years. Messages will be processed in a "secure environment" that even Meta can't access, won't be saved by default, and will disappear when exiting a session, Meta said. Generative AI systems have been dogged by privacy concerns because the large- language models that underpin these systems are trained on vast troves of data, sometimes including personal information provided by users themselves in their conversations with AI chatbots. Rival chatbot makers already have some privacy features. Google's Gemini chatbot has the option to disable chat history and opt out of allowing one's data to be used in training its AI models. ChatGPT has similar controls. Meta says it's rolling out incognito chats because users often ask chatbots sensitive questions or include private financial, personal, health or work data

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Trios Cash Cup ZB in Middle East: Event 1 Round 1 | Fortnite Tracker

Event Info It's time to compete for the opportunity to win a cash prize! Reach Round 2 (top 33 teams from each Region) where the top earners winning cash prizing - good luck and have fun! Tiebreaker will be solved by the sum of Victory Royales, then by the average Eliminations, then by the average Tiebreaker Placement, then by the average Time Alive. Placements Victory Royale + 11 Reach Top 2 + 6 Reach Top 3 + 4 Reach Top 4 + 4 Reach Top 5 + 4 Reach Top 6 + 3 Reach Top 7 + 3 Reach Top 8 + 3 Reach Top 9 + 3 Reach Top 10 + 3 Reach Top 11 + 3 Reach Top 12 + 3 Reach Top 13 + 3 Reach Top 14 + 3 Reach Top 15 + 3 Reach Top 16 + 3 Reach Top 17 + 3 Eliminations Each Elimination + 2 Prizes are for each player. Prize Pools are specific to the session and view selected. Please change your selection or view to see the other available pools. Points shown are the current points earned for the given rank. Fortnite Tracker Power Ranking PR Issues: Please report your

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From Alex Cooper to TV checkouts: Everything announced at YouTube Brandcast 2026

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Meta’s Instants App Explained: Instagram vs Snapchat – ALM Corp

Meta has launched Instants as a new way to share casual, in-the-moment photos through Instagram and, in select countries, through a separate Instants app. On the surface, the concept is easy to understand: open the camera, take a photo in real time, send it to close friends or mutual followers, and let it disappear after it is viewed. But the bigger story is not just that Meta added another feature. It is that Instagram is once again trying to solve a problem it helped create. Over time, Instagram became a platform associated with polished feeds, visible status signals, brand-safe curation, and the pressure to look good in public. Instants moves in the opposite direction. It limits editing, blocks uploads from the camera roll, narrows distribution to smaller circles, and keeps the content temporary for the recipient. In other words, it tries to make sharing feel lighter, faster, and less performative. That makes Instants relevant well beyond a simple product-news cycle. It touches several live questions in social media right now: whether users still want unfiltered communication inside a mature platform, whether a private sharing layer can coexist with an algorithm-heavy entertainment feed, whether Snapchat’s core use case remains defensible, and

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