Social Media Buzz Weekly: Roundup of Social Media Updates
- sandeepcryptonomic
- 18 hours ago
- 4 min read
Welcome to Social Media Buzz Weekly, your weekly bulletin of the latest social media updates. With the social media landscape evolving with each passing day, it can be challenging to keep a tab on the rapid developments. Well, not anymore, as we have taken it upon ourselves to keep you abreast of every happening in the social media space.
So, without any further ado, let’s look at some of the most significant developments from the last week in the world of social media.
1. TikTok Takes Action to Protect Shoppers from Fraud
TikTok has launched an expanded Intellectual Property Removal Request report, which provides an overview of its cumulative actions to protect intellectual property rights across the app.
As per the report, between January and June 2025, TikTok removed 30x more products and content through proactive measures (before the product or content appeared on the platform) than was removed after being reported by others or detected after posting. TikTok’s proactive detection measures have also led to the removal of over 143 million videos due to violations of its Community Guidelines Rules “by trading, marketing, or providing access to counterfeit goods,” while it also removed more than 530k videos and live-streams posted by TikTok Shop creators due to IPR infringement.
2. TikTok Launches New Resources for Sports Organizations
TikTok is looking to double down on sports content in the app, with a new “TikTok Gameplan” resource that’s designed to help sports clubs and organizations build their presence in the app.
TikTok’s Gameplan tools include a range of add-on tools that can help sporting organizations stand out in-stream. The product allows fans to add games to their calendars and purchase tickets directly through the app. Users can also view schedules and standings within the TikTok interface.
3. Reports Suggest That OpenAI May Be Looking to Acquire Pinterest
OpenAI is reportedly making a move on Pinterest in order to lock up more human-generated data insights, particularly around product searches. That could then help build out ChatGPT as a shopping tool, and provide it with more ad revenue opportunities.
Unlike Meta, xAI and Google, OpenAI currently doesn’t have a social or search network to draw real-time user insight from, relying instead on third-party data sources to power ChatGPT and its other offerings. With businesses now recognizing the value of their data for AI training purposes, that could make it even harder for OpenAI to keep bringing in relevant insights. The merging of the two would create a much stronger foundation for both to combat competition from the other players in their respective spaces.
4. X Faces Regulatory Scrutiny Over Grok-Generated Images
Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) is facing mounting regulatory scrutiny across multiple jurisdictions after its Grok chatbot was used to create and share AI-generated sexualized images of children and women.
Authorities in Europe, India, and Malaysia have launched investigations, while officials in Brazil and the UK have also raised concerns, marking one of the most serious global regulatory challenges yet for Musk’s AI ambitions. The controversy centers on Grok Imagine, a recently updated feature that allows users to generate images from text-based prompts directly on X.
5. Malaysia Moves to Regulate WhatsApp, Facebook and Others Under Online Safety Law
Malaysia has moved to bring some of the world’s biggest social media and messaging platforms under its licensing regime, closing a year-long gap in which several tech giants had operated without formal approval.
From January 1, platforms with more than eight million users in Malaysia are automatically treated as licensed under local law, even if they had not applied, according to the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). The shift coincides with the Online Safety Act (ONSA) 2025 coming into force, expanding regulators’ powers to hold platforms accountable for harmful content, online scams and risks to children.
6. France Plans Social Media Ban for Children Under 15
France will make a fresh attempt to protect children from excessive screen time, proposing a ban on social media access for children under 15 by next September, according to a draft law seen by Agence France-Presse.
The initiative is backed by French President Emmanuel Macron, who said earlier this month that parliament should start debating such a proposal in January. The draft law has two articles. One would make illegal “the provision by an online platform of an online social media service to a minor under 15”. The second calls for a ban of mobile phone use in secondary schools.
Wrapping Up
And that was a wrap of this week’s Social Media Buzz. We’ll be back next week with more news and updates for you from the social media world. Till then, stay tuned!
If you want to read more on the latest developments taking place in the social media space, take a look at ClickInsights’ Social Media Buzz, wherein we bring to you monthly reports on everything going on in social media, ranging from platform updates to policy changes that influence the way we market.
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