When The Truth No Longer Matters: How Social Media’s Engagement Obsession Is Killing Democracy
Sensationalism, controversy, and misinformation outperform factual reporting, eroding trust in journalism and deepening ...
ICE plans to monitor social media for threats and negative comments
Immigration law enforcement agency has requested information from companies that can provide social media and online ...
New DNC vice chair sets social media ablaze after 'radical' posts exposed: 'Learned absolutely nothing'
Newly elected DNC Vice Chair David Hogg, a 24-year-old gun control activist and emerging voice in the Democratic Party, is ...
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Social media is broken. Could BuzzFeed’s new “Island” platform finally make social media about the content, not the algorithms?
At the end of a long manifesto about what’s broken about today’s biggest social media platforms, BuzzFeed Founder and CEO ...
Social Media Posts Misidentify Pilot Killed in Midair Collision Over D.C.
The U.S. Army identified one of the Black Hawk helicopter pilots killed in the midair crash with a passenger jet on Jan. 29 ...
Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast
The Conversation Weekly podcast speaks to Robert Gehl, an expert on alternative social media platforms, about decentralised ...
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Majority support moderation on social media platforms, global survey shows
A new large-scale, global survey has revealed that most people want harmful social media content such as physical threats and defamation to be restricted. This also applies in the USA where several ...
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AI Companies Threaten Independent Social Media Research
Ethan Zuckerman and coauthors raise concerns about AI companies using user-generated social media data to train their LLMs.
JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg quits social media after cryptic apology
The 33-year-old was known for his political commentary online, posting about everyone from RFK Jr to Usha Vance ...