Hackers got Meta AI to give them Instagram account access

A series of screenshots and videos revealed the steps taken to override security features and steal accounts, per a report from 404 Media.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

🎙️ How I AI: Building an iPhone app with zero technical skills, Codex Goals explained & xxx

Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network

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Lenny’s Newsletter

The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Google AI Overviews (June 2026)

Which websites appear most often in Google’s AI Overviews? We analyzed millions of prompt responses to discover the answer.

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Data & Studies – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Gemini (June 2026)

Which websites provide Gemini with most of its information? We used Brand Radar data to find out.

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Data & Studies – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Perplexity (June 2026)

Where does Perplexity source it’s information from? We analyzed millions of prompts to find out.

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Data & Studies – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Copilot (June 2026)

Which websites appear most often in Copilot’s AI answers?

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Data & Studies – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Grok (June 2026)

Discover the website’s Grok loves to cite in its AI responses.

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Data & Studies – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Daily Search Forum Recap: June 1, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

The Google May 2026 core update was super heated over the weekend…

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Search Engine Roundtable

FAQs for Google’s ‘Preferred Sources’

Preferred sources see increased visibility in AI answers, more returning visitors, and likely greater trust within Google’s ecosystem.

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SEO – Practical Ecommerce

Google Disco Ball Logo

Google’s Doodle today is an animated Disco ball, titled "The Art of Disco." Google wrote, "In celebration of Pride Month, today’s Doodle celebrates the art of disco by shining a light on the LGBTQ+ artists who helped create space for everyone on the dance floor."

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Search Engine Roundtable

How to use schema markup to optimize for the agentic web

AI agents rely on structured data to understand and act on your content. Learn how schema markup supports the emerging agentic web.

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Search Engine Land

Cannabis Startup Leverages High Search Interest in Sour Diesel and THCV for Explosive Growth

Degelis Pilla had a vision for a clean cannabis brand that prioritized wellness above all
else—learn how she’s turned her vision into a reality with attention to trends and SEO.

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Google AI Mode & AI Overviews With Sliding Carousel For Link Cards

Google is testing a new way to show citation link cards within AI Overviews and AI Mode. In this test, if you click on a citation bubble, Google opens a carousel at the bottom of the screen that you can swipe left or right on to see the links to publisher sites.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google expands Data Manager API with GMP event ingestion

Google is helping advertisers unify measurement workflows and boost audience match rates across Google’s advertising ecosystem.

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Search Engine Land

SER Volatility Aggregator Chart & Backend Update

The Search Engine Roundtable Google volatility aggregator tool is finally live. This takes the volatility scores from the tools I use for my Google update stories and aggregates them into one score. You can then click in for more detail and the scores directly from the sources.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google shares guidance on visual AI generation

Tips about improving prompt language are applicable not only to the company’s Gemini Omni tool, but to other artificial intelligence models as well.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

McKinsey frames AI 2.0; Positionless Marketing delivers it

AI 1.0 saved time. AI 2.0 makes money. The marketers who win will be Positionless.

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Search Engine Land

How a ‘client brain’ gives AI the context SEO work needs

Structured client memory helps AI-generated work stay grounded in brand guidance, campaign history, and technical limitations.

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Search Engine Land

TikTok announces Pride Month 2026 programming

The app is highlighting eight rising LGBTQIA+ creators and small business owners throughout June in an effort to foster a more inclusive community.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

LinkedIn chatbot optimization tips offer guidance on content planning

A post about increasing visibility and artificial intelligence discovery on the platform provides clues about broader brand strategy concepts.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Topical Authority: What It Is, How Google Measures It, and How to Build It

Here’s everything you need to know.

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Content Marketing – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Link intent: How to combine great content with strategic outreach

Link intent combines authoritative content with strategic outreach to build links, referral traffic, and AI search visibility.

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Search Engine Land

Meta hires Snap director of global content partnerships

Jim Shepherd, who oversaw Snap’s celebrity relations and editorial strategy, will now help with Meta’s artificial intelligence device push, per The Hollywood Reporter.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Commerce media expands beyond retail sites with Demand Gen integration

The update now lets brands use retailer data to reach high-intent shoppers across YouTube, Discover and Gmail.

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Search Engine Land

Building an iPhone app with zero technical skills | Bryce Rattner Keithley

Watch now | 🎙️ How a talent leader with zero technical skills built and shipped a fitness app to the App Store—complete with AI-generated videos of animals doing exercises

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Lenny’s Newsletter

DV360 API Adds Demand Gen Support

Advertisers and developers will soon have new tools to automate campaign management and targeting within existing DV360 workflows.

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Search Engine Land

Google Ads Lead Management

Google Ads has a new leads section under the Conversions section that shows Google-hosted form leads for the past 60 days. This will give you the lead’s name, stage, date submitted, email, phone, the form contents and more.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Branded Searches Controls For AI Max

Google Ads is rolling out branded searches controls to some advertisers within AI Max. This allows advertisers to control how your ads appear in searches that include brand names.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Begins Limited Testing Of Healthcare Ads In AI Mode

Google has confirmed it is doing a small test of healthcare-related ads in AI Mode. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said this on LinkedIn when asked if the rumors of Google testing ads in AI Mode for healthcare a few weeks ago were true.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Invalid Activity Credit Report

Google added a new help document to the Google Ads help documentation section named About the Invalid Activity Credit Report. I am not sure if the report is new, or if it is just that the help document is new – but either way, this is a report advertisers should be looking at frequently enough.

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Search Engine Roundtable