Social media users are speculating that Meta has bought TikTok, following Donald Trump's announcement that he planned to delay a ban on the app.

In an email to Cybernews, Reddit stressed that the trend was user-driven and that the platform “has no ban on X links.” It hosts over 100,000 active communities covering a wide range of topics and they are free to enforce their own rules, according to the company.

Subreddits devoted to sports, videogaming and even geographic areas have opted to block links to Musk's X social network.

Some Reddit forums have moved to ban links from X, formerly known as Twitter, after Elon Musk's gesture at an inaugural event on Monday.

If these and other existential concerns aren't worrisome enough, there's the issue of pollution generated by AI, which requires massive amounts of energy to generate results, as well as high demand for water to cool the data centers driving the technology, as a Redditor pointed out.

In reaction to hand gestures Elon Musk made at a post-inauguration rally that many said resembled a Nazi salute, Reddit moderators took swift action.

Feedback is delighted by a YouTuber's sterling efforts to make Michael Crichton's velociraptors more accurate – but points out that they're still far too big

A new report has revealed that Meta is going hard on smartglasses, with three new models planned for 2027 including a pair by Oakley.

Following the 2025 inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump, Facebook parent company Meta forced users to follow him and Vice President JD Vance.

Mark Zuckerberg is in the hot seat after his account was seen putting a heart on a questionable AI image that went viral on his platform.

TikTok users are mobilizing to block the Facebook account on the app after rumors circulated that Meta purchased the company. Some TikTokers claimed that doing so reset their For You Page after the feed allegedly changed when the platform came back online in the U.S. following a brief shutdown period.

A number of Facebook and Instagram users have discovered that they were following US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance’s accounts, despite not intentionally doing so. Users on Threads and Reddit claimed they had not previously followed political pages but noticed they were now following Trump and Vance’s accounts.