TikTok gamifies mindfulness with ‘well-being missions’

TikTok’s latest answer to its addictiveness is gamified mindfulness tools. The app’s new Well-being Missions let you earn badges for completing challenges related to balanced digital habits. To be clear, mindfulness and dopamine-seeking mini-games are a contradictory pair. But hey, at least it’s healthier than doomscrolling. The first batch of TikTok’s “short, engaging missions” focuses … Read more

TikTok ‘content check’ tells creators if their videos will be blocked from For You pages

TikTok’s “For You” recommendations have long been a source of mystery and fascination for creators on the platform. Even the most seasoned TikTok stars don’t always understand why some videos go viral and some don’t. And there’s long been lots of speculation about the types of content that is and isn’t acceptable to the app’s … Read more

TikTok’s Community Notes era starts today

TikTok users in the United States will soon see crowd-sourced fact checks appearing alongside videos on the platform. The app is beginning to roll out Footnotes, its version of Community Notes, the company announced. TikTok announced its plan to adopt the feature back in April and since then almost 80,000 users have been approved as … Read more

Opera takes its browser beef with Microsoft to Brazil in antitrust complaint

Opera is filing an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in Brazil, alleging it creates an unfair environment for alternate browsers to compete with Edge. The Norway-based company claims Microsoft’s deals to make Edge the exclusive pre-installed browser on Windows machines creates an unfair environment for alternate browsers to compete. Opera also argued that Microsoft uses design … Read more

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