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Karissa Bell

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Senior Editor at Engadget

Senior editor @engadget covering social media platforms. DMs are open, Signal username is karissabe.51 (📧: [email protected]) Cover art: @BobAlGreene

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Articles

  • TikTok just added an AI-powered image-to-video feature and it did some weird things to my cat

    1 day ago | engadget.com | Karissa Bell

    TikTokTikTok hasn't shoved generative AI features into every corner of its app the way Meta has with Instagram, but the company has still experimented with the tech in some interesting — if slightly unsettling — ways. Now, TikTok is introducing a new AI-powered feature that feels even more meme-worthy. It's called AI Alive and it allows users to create short, stylized video clips from a static image.

  • Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad

    2 days ago | engadget.com | Karissa Bell

    Jamie Lee Curtis is the latest celebrity to call attention to scam ads on Facebook and Instagram that use AI-manipulated video to hawk sketchy products. Curtis also appears to have encountered another issue familiar to many Facebook users: struggling to get the company's attention. In posts on Facebook and Instagram, the actress asked Mark Zuckerberg to intervene to stop the spread of a "totally AI fake commercial" of her.

  • Why is Threads recommending these weird spammy posts from people looking for 'friends'?

    5 days ago | engadget.com | Karissa Bell

    Threads users have long joked about the sometimes bizarre posts served up by its recommendation algorithm since the early days of the app. Lately though, some users are starting to notice another type of strange post appear in their suggestions: posts from random people looking for "friends."The posts often feature selfies of young people whose profiles claim to be 18.

  • Threads will start telling users when their posts are demoted

    6 days ago | engadget.com | Karissa Bell

    Threads will finally start giving users more visibility into when their accounts are penalized for breaking its rules. Meta is bringing its “Account Status” feature to Threads, which will enable people to see when the company has removed or demoted posts or handed out other penalties. The change adds a layer of much-needed transparency to Threads, which already has a recommendation algorithm that can be hard for creators to understand.

  • LinkedIn wants you to tell its AI about your dream job

    1 week ago | technewstube.com | Karissa Bell

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Karissa Bell
Karissa Bell @karissabe
16 Apr 25

someone please save this beautiful orange boy 🧡

Friends of Bear Cat Rescue
Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats

I'm just so tired and so done being nice. This cat is so stressed. If anyone in the Bay Area is interested in adopting or even fostering, please reach out, he is sweet but NOT ok with other cats and is NOT doing well here. He needs to be in a home. https://t.co/oAkwnlAYxg

Karissa Bell
Karissa Bell @karissabe
16 Apr 25

New exclusive from me: TikTok is introducing Footnotes, its take on Community Notes. The company wants users to be able to add more "context" to videos, but isn't walking away from its fact-checking partnerships. More ⬇ https://t.co/mO4NxtMbbE

Karissa Bell
Karissa Bell @karissabe
8 Jan 25

Plot Twist: Dreame also brought a robo vac with an retractable arm to CES https://t.co/dLPGC135k5