Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is officially the first politician to take part in a Snapchat Live Story (a curated slideshow of images and videos from a specific event).
As part of his trip across Ontario on Thursday, Trudeau took to the visual messaging app to host a Q&A session in the style of a town hall meeting. Snapchat’s younger users from university campuses around the country were asked to submit their questions in the form of snaps to the “Trudeau Q&A” story.
The Live Story is currently featured in the Discover section of the app, and will be available to users in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the U.K. until Friday 4 p.m. PT, reports Adweek.
The Trudeau Q&A Story generally switches between videos of user-generated questions (on everything from foreign policy to the PM’s hair grooming routine) and Trudeau’s answers. Much like his Twitter feed, Trudeau replies to some of the queries in English and others in French. Additional snaps include Trudeau meeting with local citizens during his Ontario tour.
One user asked Trudeau: “What policy changes should we anticipate with the latest cabinet shuffle … particularly with foreign policy with the U.S.” With the camera in selfie mode, the Canadian PM responded: “Our new foreign minister Chrystia Freeland has deep connections and contacts with the United States, which is going to help with the incoming new administration.”
Despite hosting similar interviews with celebs such as Selena Gomez and Kevin Hart, Snapchat has not managed to secure politicians to do the same. However, the app did gain ground with presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during election season, with both using Snapchat’s sponsored features (such as lenses) for promotional purposes. Perhaps we’ll even see a Trump Q&A in the future, or similar Live Stories with other global leaders.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?