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Wes Davis
Wes Davis
WhatsApp is testing multiple account support on iOS.

You can log into multiple WhatsApp accounts on one iOS device in a recent iOS beta version, writes WABetaInfo.

In the case of Android phones, which have had the feature since 2023, you need a multi-SIM card phone and a second phone number to register another account.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Another look at Threads’ Community Notes.

After sharing some screenshots of the feature earlier this month, Alessandro Paluzzi shared a couple more of the feature today.

If you want to join the Community Notes waitlist, you can do that here.

A screenshot of Alessandro Paluzzi’s screenshots of Community Notes on Threads.
Alessandro Paluzzi’s screenshots on Threads.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
How Meta’s MAGA heel turn is a play for global power

Law professor Kate Klonick explains what Big Tech’s Trump appeasement is really about.

Nilay Patel
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Here’s how you might write Community Notes on Instagram.

From Alessandro Paluzzi, who recently posted screenshots of how writing Community Notes might look like on Threads, too.

A screenshot of Alessandro Paluzzi’s Threads post showing a Community Notes menu in Instagram.
This is a screenshot of a Threads post by Paluzzi.
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
David Pierce
David Pierce
A PSA for all those wondering why you’re suddenly following Trump and Vance on social.

There is, alas, no grand conspiracy here. It’s just that every four years, on X, Instagram, and Facebook, accounts like @POTUS, @VP, and @WhiteHouse are transferred to the incoming administration. Here’s how it went down in 2021, and with the first Trump term.

There are people who say they never followed these accounts and now suddenly do, which would be much stranger. I have a theory about this, but if it happened to you I want to know!