In 2016 , Ricardo Galli announced his retirement from Menéame because, according to his own words, he could not dedicate the time he wanted to and wanted to focus on new projects. In this way, the blogger and founder of Diariomotor, Daniel Seijo , became the new CEO of the company with the aim of generating more income in a non-intrusive way.
In 2020, they launched a mobile app , available for both Android and iOS. A few years later, they upgraded their website to a newer, more attractive version , adapted to the new generation of the internet. However, it is the user who chooses whether to use the new or the old version.
Controversies
Unfortunately, Menéame has also been the subject of controversies related to intellectual property, such as the one it had to face related to the AEDE canon or the Google tax ; with fake news , something they argentina number data are frequently accused of and which has led them to include stricter measures when publishing content, which they continue to work on every day; or problems with cyberattacks .
In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that the platform was liable for an insult towards a former PP councillor in Marbella made in the comments of a news story that was shared on its website in 2015. Menéame was considered to be a service provider and not a link aggregator, which meant that it had an obligation to remove the offensive comments. This led to a fine of €1,200 . Three years later, in 2023, the Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court's ruling.
As for cyberattacks, in 2022, they reported an attack that would have affected almost 18% of users, causing the implementation of a reset of all passwords to achieve greater security.
As we mentioned above, since it is an open source platform, anyone can use it. Thus, Menéame came to have more than 100 active clones around the world, although many of them no longer exist or are outdated. Among the most notable are the Galician Chuza , with a very similar model in votes and news sent. Others also emerged in other languages such as Latafanera (“the gossip” in Spanish) in Catalonia or Zabaldu in the Basque Country. In addition, there were clones focused on different themes or content such as Negóciame focused on the business world or Webéame , a Menéame for web developers.