Anne Carney

Even at 85 my dad was sharp. He was a lawyer who started his day with crossword puzzles before heading to work as a court auditor. He was the last person I expected to lose nearly $10,000 to the “grandparent scam.” But true to his character, he thought only about the needs of the person pretending to be my son and sent the money off. My dad never reported the crime, and I believe the scammer was located overseas, beyond the reach of law enforcement.

If you thought Meta’s new Edits app was just a Reels sidekick, you’re only seeing the surface. On launch, Edits presents like a clean MVP: slick interface, seamless Instagram integration, and enough basic tools to pass as a respectable alternative to CapCut. But beneath the surface lies something far more strategic — and the code tells the real story. What Meta shipped is a polished skeleton. What it’s building is a creative operating system.

Meta just launched Edits, their long-awaited standalone free video creation app designed “for creators, by creators.” But let’s be honest, in its current form, Edits feels like a stripped-down experiment dressed in Instagram UI. If CapCut is a Tesla, Edits is a rental scooter with promise: fun, functional, but far from performance-ready. Here’s the unfiltered, platform-level breakdown.