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Snapchat is rolling out a new “Place Loyalty” feature that will show users when they’re among the most frequent visitors to a place on Snap Map over the past year, the company announced on Wednesday. If you’re in the top 25% of users who visit a certain place, you’ll see your ranking on the Snap Map and can choose to share it with others. You’ll receive a gold badge if you’re among the top 1% of visitors, silver if you’re top 10%, and bronze if you’re top 25%. For brands and chains, Snapchat aggregates visits across all locations. Of course, you will only see these badges if you choose to share your location with Snapchat. Additionally, Place Loyalty rankings are only visible to you, Snapchat says. The new feature is one more way for users to engage with the app and encourage them to share their loyalty badges on other social platforms or with friends in their social circle. Image Credits:Snapchat Launched in 2017, Snap Map was originally seen as a way for users to see their friends’ locations and browse public snaps from around the world. Over time, the feature has evolved and now offers ways for users to discover

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Back in the days of pre-enshittified Tumblr, there was a blog called Pop Culture Died In 2009. The now-dormant account, run by blogger Matt James, dug into his mom's back issues of Star Magazine and the remnants of Web 1.0 gossip sites on the Internet Archive to surface old tabloid covers, ill-begotten paparazzi shots, and other quietly forgotten but deeply influential ephemera of 2000s pop culture. Like many Tumblr blogs, it had a hyperspecific audience: everyone who can conjure, from memory, one specific tabloid photo of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan together in a car.  In other words, its audience was Catherine Garner, better known as Slayyyter. She's an avowed fan of the blog — which isn't surprising, given that she seems to have existed everywhere else in the online music world. As her stage name suggests, she comes directly from Stan Twitter: Before becoming a musician, she ran One Direction and Fifth Harmony stan accounts called @harrys_anaconda and @camilkacowbello. She spent so much time on early-oughts Tumblr that her recent single "OLD FLING$" was premiered by the Tumblr editorial team — I didn't know Tumblr even had an editorial team anymore. If she'd come up during the

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After a new report put a spotlight on popular YouTube videos with unclear origin promoting Alberta separatism, an independence leader said he's unconcerned about foreign interference influencing a possible upcoming separation referendum. Mitch Sylvestre, the CEO of the Alberta Prosperity Project, said claims of foreign interference in the Alberta independence debate are “overblown." He was responding to a new report about a network of inauthentic and coordinated YouTube channels, which the report's authors argue is exploiting Albertans' grievances with the federal government to advance the idea of separating from Canada and joining the United States. “This foreign interference thing, as far as I’m concerned, is a fairy tale up to this point,” Sylvestre said. The report, published Tuesday by the Canadian Digital Media Research Network, analyzes channels that post videos with such titles as "Danielle Smith Just ANNOUNCED the Biggest Separation in Canadian History Is About to HAPPEN!” and "Alberta & Saskatchewan Just GOT OFFICIALLY BACKED By The US! 51ST-52ND STATEHOOD INCOMING!" Researchers analyzed 20 YouTube accounts that have totaled nearly 40 million views in the past year. The channels' videos are designed similarly while drawing from the same subjects and news clips, while including "frequent and obvious lies," the

Canada A new wave of AI-generated YouTube videos aimed at toddlers and preschoolers are raising concerns among child development experts and advocates who say it could harm early childhood development. They're calling for YouTube parent company Google to change how the videos are displayed and distributed on the platform. Spread of AI videos on YouTube worries child development experts and advocates who are calling for changes Jessica Wong · CBC News · Posted: Apr 22, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago Listen to this article Estimated 7 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A screenshot taken from a colourful online video aimed at young kids features trains and a jaunty song about learning letters. It also includes classic signs of being AI-generated, like some of those letters appearing garbled at times. (Jojo Funland/YouTube) With their bright visuals and slickly animated babies or colourful trains, you might think you've stumbled onto your average online video teaching kids their ABCs.  But it might actually be an example of nonsensical content mass-generated with artificial intelligence known as

The minister of tourism says she regrets posting a manipulated image of The Rooms on her Facebook page. Minister Andrea Barbour posted an image of herself standing outside The Rooms to mark Tourism Week. The image includes an elaborate – and completely fictitious – logo on the front of the altered building. From Andrea’s Barbour’s post (Facebook) Barbour was asked about the alteration during Question Period by tourism critic Bettina Ford. “The photo was either AI generated, or doctored,” says Ford. “The impressive artwork of the caribou, representing the Royal Newfoundland Regiment at the main entrance, was removed with an unknown logo replacing it. Why is the minister in her Facebook post redesigning the entrance to such an iconic tourism landmark?” Ford asked. “Speaker, I’m not sure what she’s talking about, so I’ll have to go back and look at the picture and get back to you.” Barbour later admitted to using ChatGPT to create the image for Tourism Week and regrets that the background was altered in doing so.  » Read More

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(Photo by Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its advertising practices. The nonprofit group Consumer Federation of America (CFA) has filed a proposed class-action suit against Meta for "failing to protect users" from scam ads on Facebook and Instagram. The lawsuit, which was first reported by Wired, alleges that Meta has run afoul of consumer protection laws in Washington D.C. for misleading Facebook and Instagram users about scams on its apps and that the company has "chased profits rather than protecting its users." The filing includes numerous examples of alleged scam ads that CFA says it found in Meta's ad library. These include ads promoting a "free government iPhone," as well as those claiming to offer $1,400 checks to people born in certain years. Many of the ads use AI videos, according to CFA. Some of examples of alleged scam ads CFA includes in its lawsuit. (CFA) Meta's advertising practices have been in the spotlight since last year when Reuters reported on internal documents that indicated the company was making billions of dollars from ads promoting scams and banned goods. The report also highlighted how Meta's own processes have at

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