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Twitter Expands Crowdsourced Fact-Checking Following Phony Viral Photo

About a week after an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of an explosion outside the Pentagon went viral on Twitter, the social media giant is using its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, to fight back against fake or misleading images. [Read More]

Elon Musk Buys Twitter for $44 Billion

Twitter has agreed to terms with billionaire Elon Musk. With a tender offer of $54.20 per share, the man who controls both Tesla and SpaceX will purchased the social media platform for $44 billion with the intent to take it private. [Read More]

SpaceX Astronaut Captures Stellar Photo of Earth, Shot on iPhone

The first few images released by the SpaceX team were shot with a Nikon DSLR, but the images shared in the most recent drop by mission commander Jared Isaacman were captured using an iPhone 12. The crew of SpaceX’s Inspiration4 has started sharing some images and videos captured from space during the company’s world’s first […]

Nikon to Launch First Ever Camera with GNSS Instead of GPS

Nikon looks set to launch what is likely the first consumer camera to use GNSS instead of GPS. It would be a major upgrade in how geolocation coordinates are obtained for the metadata of photos. The mention of GNSS was first spotted by Nokishita and reported by Nikon Rumors in a government registration filing for […]

Not Disclosing That a Photo Was Retouched is Now Illegal in Norway

Norway has recently passed legislation that makes it illegal for photos that feature any kind of retouching without disclosing the edits posted by celebrities and influencers as part of a pushback against unrealistic beauty standards and a rise in body dysmorphic disorder.

Twitter Joins Coalition of Media/Tech Companies Combating Fake News

Twitter is the latest tech and media giant to join The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), which focuses on combating misleading and fraudulent online content. In late 2019, Adobe-led collaboration with The New York Times Company and Twitter helped establish the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), which aims to address online content authenticity through […]

Oprah Spots Struggling Photographer’s Tweet, Offers Him a Job

A struggling photographer recently published a Tweet in a last-ditch effort to find some work, and the Hail Mary paid off in a big way: Oprah Winfrey saw it and Tweeted him a job offer. The Coronavirus Pandemic has had a major impact on photographers, many of whom have found it incredibly difficult to find […]

Twitter’s Photo Cropping Algorithm Draws Heat for Possible Racial Bias

Back in January of 2018, Twitter introduced an auto-cropping AI that detects the most interesting part of your image and crops the ‘preview’ photo to match. This works with everything from airplane wings to people, but as one engineer showed this weekend, it may suffer from some inherent bias. Over the weekend, cryptographic engineer Tony […]

These Reactions to a Brooklyn Beckham Photobook Will Make You Laugh

Brooklyn Beckham was never going to be the most liked photographer in the industry. As the son of multi-millionaire superstars, he got one of the biggest legs up any photographer has received. For a teenage boy, as he was at the time, his work wasn't the worst we have ever seen, but it certainly didn't warrant a photobook and gig with Burberry! A few years have passed since he burst onto the scene, but even now, people enjoy giving the 21-year-old celebrity photographer some virtual jabs on social media.

Social Media: A Photographer’s Curse and Why I Chose To Break Free

Social media has become such an integral part of a photographer's journey. I myself had become so immersed in it that I’d spend a large portion of my day on apps like Instagram and Twitter. Building profiles, portraying the perfect life and living for likes, it absorbs so many of us, including myself.

Mike Campau Explores the Anti-Social Realities of Social Media

Social media has been making a big impact of today's generation, not only for making personal connections but also for building a professional network. As such, it has been consuming a big chunk of our daily activities and demanding so much of our attention, sometimes for the wrong reasons.

Twitter Trained an AI to Help Auto-Crop Your Photos Better

Twitter has just announced that auto-cropping of photos on the social networking service will be producing much better results thanks to a new neural network that has been trained for the task. Twitter has been a platform for photo sharing since 2011, but cropping shared photos into neat previews has been a challenge for developers. […]

Photographer Flips Off Musician After Being Called Out for Using Flash

Musician Ryan Adams got into another very public scuffle with a photographer this week. Midway through his set at the 2017 Gasparilla Music Festival, Adams, who suffers from Meniere’s disease, called out photographer Joe Sale for using flash photography and potentially putting the musician’s health at risk. Meniere’s disease is an inner ear disorder, and […]

This Drone Photo Helped Save a Man and His Dog from Their Flooded Home

This is one of the best “Internet saves the day” stories we’ve run across. When a filmmaker in North Carolina took his drone out to survey the damage done by Hurricane Matthew, he inadvertently helped rescue a man and his elderly dog who were trapped in a flooded house. You can’t make this stuff up. […]

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Instagram Set to Overtake Twitter as a News Source

The photo-centric social media app Instagram looks set to overtake Twitter as a news source, according to a new report on digital news. Reuters Institute has published its Digital News Report 2020, and one of the interesting findings is how much Instagram has surged as a news source among young people. Since 2018, the use […]

Twitter to Start Labeling ‘Deceptively Altered’ Photos and Video

Following hot on the heels of Instagram’s new (and at times controversial) “False Information” warning, Twitter has just announced its own policy around labeling and warning users about photos and videos that have been “deceptively altered” and manipulated.

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Instagram Status Updates Now Includes Songs and Translations

Six months ago, Meta introduced new sharing-focused features on Instagram, including Notes, Group Profiles, and new Stories functionality. As it turns out, Notes have proven very popular with young users, prompting Instagram to add more features to it including the ability to attach a 30-second clip of a song to a status update. [Read More]

A Guide to Social Media Image Sizes in 2022

If you have ever uploaded a photo to your social media feed and found that the image quality isn’t as good as you’d like it to be, you're not alone. Most sites that allow you to upload images will use their own set of parameters to resize and compress uploaded images to save file space and bandwidth. [Read More]

Rejoice! Twitter Finally Rolls Out Full-Size Images in Mobile Feeds

Twitter is finally rolling out bigger images in your feed after almost two months since it began testing the feature. Photographers who want to share their photos on the social network now don’t have to worry about Twitter’s cropping algorithm, and photos will be shown in all their glory by default. While it might not […]

Twitter is Testing Full-Size Images in Feeds on iOS and Android

Twitter has announced that it is testing full-size images as previews in feeds for select iOS and Android users. This shift would make it so images aren’t automatically cropped to a tight, landscape-oriented version on feeds and may make them more engaging.