Ford enlisted adventure YouTuber Lexie Limitless, the youngest person to visit every country in the world, to circumnavigate the globe in an electric Ford Explorer and chronicle the journey in a Prime Video docuseries.

More and more Americans are getting their news from influencers on the internet.

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Pew Research Center:News influencers survey: 20% of US adults say they get news from social media influencers, 85% of influencers are on X and 27% identify as right-wing, and more  —  The creators and consumers in the world of news and information on social media  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents

Callie Holtermann / New York Times:Bluesky says it has gained 1M+ users in the week since the US election, mostly in the US, the UK, and Canada, and now has 14.7M users in total  —  With one million new accounts added since the U.S.

LinkedIn is becoming a bigger platform for creators.

While Waymo is now providing over 150,000 autonomous rides every week, Tesla still has a long way to go until its controversial "Full Self-Driving" software is ready for the EV maker's competing robotaxi service.

Penguin Random House, the trade publisher, is adding language to the copyright pages of its books to prohibit the use of those books to train AI.

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Meta is scrambling to try and bring a major moderation failure on its popular Instagram and Threads app under control.

Einen Elektroantrieb haben die Monstertrucks im Bergbau bereits.

Songs by Adele, Bob Dylan, Green Day, R.E.M., Burna Boy, Rush and many others are currently unplayable on YouTube in the U.S.

X (formerly Twitter) could soon resume service in Brazil — if it’s willing to pay an additional fine.

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty ImagesMeta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign.

Illustration: The VergeMeta is rolling out the ability to tag your location on your Threads posts.

Image: VolvoEarlier this month, Volvo became the latest automaker to announce that it was delaying its plans to sell only electric vehicles.

Competition in the world of search is heating up as social media giant TikTok just announced a major decision that can take its search ambitions to the next level.

After building out its Search product over the past few years to take on Google, TikTok is now taking its Search ambitions even further by allowing advertisers to target its search results page.

TikTok said Monday that it removed accounts belonging to Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik for engaging in what it called "covert influence operations." (NBC News) TikTok has banned all political advertising on the application since 2019, but that hasn't stopped advertisers from running what appear to be paid political messages on the platform....

Discord is looking to beef up its advertising offerings — and it’s assembling a team of gaming industry experts to accomplish the task. Discord, the popular instant messaging and social platform with roots in the gaming space, has benefited significantly from the explosion of gaming in recent years.