social media articles published February 18, 2026
February 18 articles
- Mark Zuckerberg testifies in social media addiction trial that Meta just wants Instagram to be 'useful'
- A startup called Germ becomes the first private messenger that launches directly from Bluesky’s app
- From finance to tech, AI is quietly rewriting LinkedIn posts
- Discord’s age verification backlash continues as fleeing users overload the servers of yet another platform
- Mastodon, a decentralized alternative to X, plans to target creators with new features
- Discord Age Checks Trigger Users To Leave Platform for Rival
- The startup that wants you to go out and do something
- YouTube was down – here's what caused the huge global outage
- YouTube Glitch Leaves 320,000 Users Facing Blank Screens as Algorithm Malfunctions
- X continues to bet on vertical video with its latest update
- Discord Users Abandoning Platform for TeamSpeak Amid New Age Check
- Meta Is Shutting Down Its Messenger Website
- Discord competitor experiencing "incredible surge of new users" following the leading chat platform's controversial age verification announcement: "Hosting capacity has been reached in many regions"
- Reddit Shares Insight Into Rising World Cup Discussion
- YouTube fixes major outage that knocked the platform offline for hours
- YouTube Expands Livestream Donations, Updates Shorts Editing Tools
- What Moltbook, the new social media site for AI agents, tells us about AI
- YouTube says issue ‘resolved’ after more than a quarter million users report problems accessing website and app
- Samsung's shameless AI ads aren't going down well
- YouTube Outage Affects Homepage, App, YouTube TV & More; Issue Resolved After Fix To “Recommendation System”
- YouTube was down for thousands of users in the US
- YouTube outage cause revealed: Here's what we know
- YouTube outage cause revealed: What we know
- YouTube Goes Down: Platform Experiences Technical Issue With Recommendation System
- Is YouTube down? Company responds to outages
- YouTube Restored After Suffering Outage Tuesday Night
- YouTube restores service after serious outage affected over 320,000 US users
- Is YouTube down right now? What to know as thousands report outages
- YouTube restores service after brief streaming disruption
