First up, an update from LinkedIn: The LinkedIn Guide to Creating features the community’s “fantastic insights on the content you want more of, such as tips on driving engaging conversations, carving out your own niche, and investing in yourself, are part of what has guided this change.”

Secondly, Meta is expanding their fact-checking program to cover content on Threads as well. Additionally, end-to-end encryption is now the default in Messenger, after five long years of development. 

What does that mean? According to Meta: “The extra layer of security provided by end-to-end encryption means that the content of your messages and calls with friends and family are protected from the moment they leave your device to the moment they reach the receiver’s device. This means that nobody, including Meta, can see what’s sent or said, unless you choose to report a message to us.”

Meta is also continuing on the AI train with the launch of Purple Llama, “an umbrella project featuring open trust and safety tools and evaluations meant to level the playing field for developers to responsibly deploy generative AI models and experiences in accordance with best practices shared in our Responsible Use Guide.” 

Audiobox, another generative AI project, is also currently in the preview stage. Meta says, “Audiobox is Meta’s new foundation research model for audio generation. It can generate voices and sound effects using a combination of voice inputs and natural language text prompts – making it easy to create custom audio for a wide range of use cases.

And last but not least, some updates from Threads. A light mode has been added to the desktop version of the app, and now that some time has passed since the launch of topic tags, we can see what areas of discussion are getting the most engagement recently. Check out the data here!

That’s all for now! Catch you next time!