Disney and TikTok announced a first-of-its-kind content-sharing deal that lets creators legally use footage and characters from Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and FX in their own short-form videos. It’s easy to read this purely as a creator-economy story on its own. It’s really two stories at once: Disney handing over IP it has spent decades

Meta will pay up to $17 billion over 10 years to resolve child-safety claims brought by attorneys general across 51 states and territories, and the money is the least important part of the deal. The real change is a default 2-hour daily time limit on Facebook and Instagram for every teen account, arriving alongside a

On August 13, 2026, Instagram rolled out a new wordmark, its first script update in roughly a decade, to an app that had just crossed 3 billion monthly active users. Within days, the internet had renamed it “Instagzam.” That reaction tells you almost nothing about whether the redesign worked, and the platform’s own history proves