How Social Media 2.0 Can Create a Marketplace for the Truth | Opinion
Meta—the Mark Zuckerberg-run company that owns Facebook—closed the fact-checking unit on its multi-billion-user social media ...
The new Meta policy makes social media a dangerous place for people like me
The move risks emboldening and amplifying hate speech, particularly toward LGBTQ users, who often rely on the online ...
Couple arrested in Knox County after video of dog being beaten circulates on social media
A man and woman were arrested in Knox County on Thursday when law enforcement was informed about a video they allegedly ...
Don’t expect Mark Zuckerberg to save social media
Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to do away with fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram is not a solution to the problem of ...
Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals
Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals that competed with LinkedIn, has been acquired by AI-powered search engine ...
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The biggest problem with social media isn’t content moderation
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a lot of heat since he announced last week that he is pulling his company out of the fact-checking business and curtailing content moderation on its platforms. The ...
How to Hide Yourself on Instagram, Facebook, X, and Other Social Media Platforms
If you don't want other people to find you on social media, here's how to go about it: Including instructions for Instagram, ...
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Social Media Is for Consuming Disasters, Not Surviving Them
Entities that traditionally communicate with the public in such crises have, for the most part, been doing their best: Local ...
A $30 million campaign to free social media from billionaire control is now underway
The campaign aims to raise $30 million to build an open-source social platform free from "billionaire control." ...
Fake Cal Fire social media accounts are asking for donations
As Los Angeles begins the rebuilding process after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires caused an untold amount of ...
TikTok's Chinese ownership isn't the danger. Social media as a whole knows too much. | Opinion
Second, however, TikTok does present a danger. But it’s the same danger all the social media platforms present: they collect ...
Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse
Heat waves, flooding and fire conditions are becoming more common and catastrophic as the world warms. Extreme weather events often lead to a spike in social media attention to climate change. Social ...