How I quit social media for a month… and then ended up right back where I started

Here's what I learnt after trying to kick Reddit and YouTube cold turkey for a month. [...]

Meta turned Threads algorithm complaints into an official feature

Threads users have been complaining about its recommendation algorithm pretty much since the beginning of the platform. At some point, this turned into a meme, with users writing posts jokingly addres [...]

Threads reaches 150 million daily users and is ramping up ads

Threads has grown to 150 million daily active users. Mark Zuckerberg shared the latest milestone for the company's text-based app during Meta's third-quarter earnings call. The company previ [...]

China Cracks Down: Fake Experts Banned From Social Media

China is going all-in with strict social media policies surrounding educational topics. [...]

Samsung teases its next big Unpacked event with social media posts that reveal almost nothing — but we've spotted some hints

Samsung is teasing its next generation of foldables with a cryptic social media campaign, and we're just trying to read the tea leaves. [...]

Today I learned what a social media bot farm looks like — and it made me delete my Reddit account

I've been a Reddit user for 13 years — and one video of a social media bot farm was all it took for me to delete my account. [...]

Age verification for social media is the right idea built the wrong way

Social media bans for minors risk sacrificing digital privacy in pursuit of online safety. [...]

Opening statements begin in the biggest consumer protection case in the US

Opening statements in the states’ case against Meta begin today in Oakland. The court seated a jury last week. The trial should run about five weeks. Twenty-nine state attorneys general brought the [...]

TikTok has never let a teen-addiction case reach a jury. It just settled three more.

TikTok has a consistent answer to the lawsuits accusing it of harming children: settle, quietly, before a jury sees the evidence. On Monday it did so again. The company has agreed to settle three case [...]