Imagine you are browsing through Instagram and seeing a picture of P. Diddy as a bee or Stephen Hawking on Jeffrey Epstein’s island, so you chuckle and maybe send it to a ...

As global crises intensify, Gen Z turns fear into humour, transforming breaking news into memes. But why do they do this?

Under 18s would need permission from a parent to sign up for a social media account. Age verification mechanisms would be ...

The EU is threatening to take action against the social media company. It could be the start of a global reckoning. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's ...

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Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called "Dear Algo" that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms. Threads users will be able to tell the Dear Algo tool what kinds ...

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard line on a political issue, and the platform is quick to respond—serving up ...

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...