Social Media

Meta's fix for teen online mental health? Hold Apple and Google responsible

Facebook: If only we had a national law to ensure kids get parental permission to indulge in damaging social media

Personal Tech15 Nov 2023 | 31

X fails to remove hate speech over Israel-Gaza conflict

98% of posts reported stay up, and Musk's response is to sue the messenger

Personal Tech14 Nov 2023 | 84

India gives social media platforms 36 hours to remove deepfakes

Today it's Bollywood actors, tomorrow it could be lawmakers themselves

AI + ML09 Nov 2023 | 10

Microsoft, Meta detail plans to fight election disinformation in 2024

Strategies differ, though both have gaps that could hurt efficacy

Security08 Nov 2023 | 10

Europe bans Meta from using personal data to target ads

EU folks have no chill, not that we're complaining

Personal Tech01 Nov 2023 | 73

X says it's only worth $19B after year of Muskmanagement

Everything's down, except Elon's engagement, and that's what really matters, right?

Personal Tech31 Oct 2023 | 32

X looks back at year of so-called 'engineering excellence' under Musk

Now please subscribe to premium and let us host your 'entire financial life'

Offbeat30 Oct 2023 | 60

Meta decides to Just Say No to Oversight Board requests and allow paid posts for ketamine

Because says nothing like quality medical care like an ad for the 'magical entry into another dimension'

Offbeat26 Oct 2023 | 20

On-by-default video calls come to X, disable to retain your sanity

Oh, and happy Twitter acquisition day eve to Elon. Will year 2 be better? Not if the bankers get hold of him, it seems

Personal Tech26 Oct 2023 | 51

33 AGs sue Meta for 'exploitative and harmful acts' against American children

Cracks down on the so-called four-pronged process of luring the youth

Legal24 Oct 2023 | 15

EU threatens X with DSA penalties over spread of Israel-Hamas disinformation

Final update Meta also told to clean out election-bothering deepfakes from its empire – or face the music

Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 81

Twitter further restricts free tier with option to limit replies to verified accounts

The digital town square, but with more pay-to-play curbs

Personal Tech11 Oct 2023 | 64

FTC: Please stop falling for social media scams, you've given crooks at least $650M so far this year

Internet considered harmful

Cybersecurity Month07 Oct 2023 | 68

X confuses the masses by removing all details from links

And in other news, lenders complain Musk needs to go

Offbeat05 Oct 2023 | 53

CISA barred from coordinating with social media sites to police misinformation

The 5th Circuit's re-ruling adds CISA to a list of alleged first-amendment violators. Next stop: Supreme Court

Security04 Oct 2023 | 30

X Social Media sues Twitter 2.0 over alphabet soup branding

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Personal Tech03 Oct 2023 | 32

Yelp sues Texas for right to publish actual accurate abortion info

So much for that free speech, huh?

Personal Tech28 Sep 2023 | 67

Musk, Yaccarino contradict each other on status of X's election integrity team

One says it's dead, the other says it's growing, and we all know how grumpy Elon gets when contradicted

Offbeat28 Sep 2023 | 47

Indonesia, TikTok's best market, bans social commerce

Made-In-China network's attempt to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet

Legal28 Sep 2023 | 4

Twitter, aka X, tops charts for misinformation, EU official says

In measure of fakery, Musk's social media biz has highest noise-to-signal ratio

Off-Prem26 Sep 2023 | 96

Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk's multiple messes

Federated social network adds n00b-friendly features to the 'Fediverse'

Software22 Sep 2023 | 48

Friends don't let friends use AI to chat

Science shocker: Real BFFs understand authenticity and sincerity can't be machine-generated

AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 14

When does tackling pandemic misinfo become censorship? US courts argue it out

Analysis On one hand, it's private-public cooperation. On the other, it's heavy-handed state intervention. We take a look at this important unfolding case

Personal Tech12 Sep 2023 | 125

Big Tech has failed to police Russian disinformation, EC study concludes

In Putin's Russia, the planet hacks you

Security05 Sep 2023 | 61

USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age

Networks30 Aug 2023 | 118

Musk's latest X-periments: No more headlines, old posts vanish, block gets banned

If advertisers weren't happy before, this is sure to win them over

Personal Tech22 Aug 2023 | 80

Musk's X caught throttling outbound links to websites he doesn't like

Elon, curing the world of imposter syndrome one decision at a time

Personal Tech16 Aug 2023 | 62

Lawsuit: We've got the stats to prove Twitter ax fell unfairly on older, female engineers

Seven ex-tweeps bring the receipts, as the kids say

Personal Tech10 Aug 2023 | 76

ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip

But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible

AI + ML07 Aug 2023 | 53

We'd pay good money to see... oh dear, Elon Musk 'needs an MRI scan'

Opinion What does this mean for his cage fight against Zuck? YOU DECIDE

Offbeat07 Aug 2023 | 62

Australian Senate committee recommends bans on Chinese social media apps

WeChat accused of 'contempt for Parliament' as transparency rules floated for platforms

Security02 Aug 2023 | 14

Twitter sues Brit non-profit, claims hate-speech reports scared off advertisers

Are we out of touch? No, it's the campaigners who are wrong

Personal Tech01 Aug 2023 | 106

Musk's X tries to win advertisers back with discounts

Plus: Did Xwitter just suggest stripping people of gold checks? Don't threaten us with a good time

Personal Tech26 Jul 2023 | 83

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

Column I know, because I let it all flood in. And it was damaging to my mental health

Personal Tech20 Jul 2023 | 110

Twitter ad revenue has halved since Elon Musk took over

While Zuckerberg's Threads reels in users at record rates

Personal Tech17 Jul 2023 | 108

From cage fight to page fight: Twitter threatens to sue Meta after Threads app launch

Meta rolls eyes at claim it used former Twits to create rival

Personal Tech06 Jul 2023 | 87

Oh, great. Yet another tech billionaire thinks he can get microblogging right

Zuck's Instagram-adjacent Twitter clone to debut later this week

Personal Tech05 Jul 2023 | 117

Prepare for a meme massacre: Snap snuffs out Gfycat in September

Hey, Zuck – still want your own meme factory?

Personal Tech03 Jul 2023 | 10

Reddit cuts five percent of workers while API pricing shift sours developers

Two third-party Reddit apps have thrown in the towel over increased expenses

Software09 Jun 2023 | 18

Stanford Internet Observatory raises alarm over 'serious failings with the child protection systems at Twitter'

Updated Researchers find 100,000 accounts spamming child abuse material

Software06 Jun 2023 | 21

Yaccarino takes wheel at Twitter early as advertising woes become public

Leaked documents show a 59% ad revenue decline last month – can a Yacc smack get Twitter back on track?

Personal Tech05 Jun 2023 | 37

Reddit blackout planned over app-killing API prices

Hell hath no fury like a subreddit admin scorned

Software05 Jun 2023 | 21

Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it

Is he out of touch? No, must be the employees, users, advertisers, regulators, creditors...

Personal Tech31 May 2023 | 72

Social media may harm kids. US Surgeon General says so

That's a warning and not permission, in case you were wondering

Personal Tech23 May 2023 | 19

Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO

Opinion Though we're not sure NBCUniversal ad exec Linda Yaccarino appreciates the description

Personal Tech12 May 2023 | 102

Meta CEO doesn't Zuck at Brazilian jiu-jitsu, apparently

'Silent killer' Mark bags himself top medals in tournament

Offbeat09 May 2023 | 22

Vietnam to require registration of social media, even on global platforms

Show some ID or your Facebook feed might not make it across the border

Legal09 May 2023 | 5

Deplatforming hate forums doesn't work, British boffins warn

Updated Industry intervention alone can't deal with harassment

Personal Tech18 Apr 2023 | 122

Substack copied Twitter so Twitter is copying Substack

Actual features pending, please pay us now

Personal Tech14 Apr 2023 | 61

Utah outlaws kids' social media addiction, sets digital curfew

Age verification, a private right to sue Big Tech ... thinking of the children or political points?

Personal Tech24 Mar 2023 | 73

Requiem for Google Reader, dead for a decade but not forgotten

Special report RSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign

Networks14 Mar 2023 | 50

Meta confirms decentralized Twitter rival in the works

Where there's disaffected twits there's potential revenue, and Facebook parent smells blood – er, profit

Personal Tech11 Mar 2023 | 28

'Brittle' Twitter suffers bad case of the Mondays: Links, pics, vids fail

Once again, the status page is oblivious

Personal Tech06 Mar 2023 | 62

Happy Lunar New Year: Beijing warns of enhanced surveillance during celebrations

Censors are on the lookout for showering under a waterfall of money, overeating, and more conventional sins

Security20 Jan 2023 | 8

UK Online Safety law threatens Big Tech bosses with jail

Two years in the clink proposed for not thinking of the children

Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 85

You can't handle the truth! Indian government suggests its own fact checkers judge what's right on social media

Classy: slips obviously conflicted idea in alongside changed gaming rules on last day of consultation period

Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 2