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By Megan McCluskey
Twitter to Pay $809.5M Settlement in Class Action Lawsuit
By Molly Schuetz and Robert Burnson/Bloomberg
Instagram's Body Image Problem May Be Unfixable
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Brazil's New Social Media Rules Explained
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OnlyFans, the subscriber-based social media platform, sparked outrage last week when it announced it would ban “sexually explicit” content on Oct. 1. The platform, where sex workers, influencers, and celebrities charge subscribers for access to...
By Eloise Barry
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YouTube Revamps Health Videos as Biden Criticizes Social Media for Vaccine Misinformation
YouTube will start labeling health videos with information on how authoritative the source is as Biden criticizes social media
By Mark Bergen/Bloomberg
July 19, 2021
Twitter Penalizes Record Number of Accounts for Hate Speech
Twitter Inc. “took action” on a record number of user accounts for violating the company’s hate speech policies during the second half of 2020, a reflection of the company’s decision to expand its rules. Twitter...
By Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg
July 14, 2021
How Can Social Media Firms Tackle Racist Abuse of Soccer Players?
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to urge social media companies to take action to stamp out racial abuse on their platforms on Tuesday, after the profiles of Black England soccer players were bombarded...
By Billy Perrigo
July 14, 2021
Facebook Wins Dismissal of U.S., States' Anti-Trust Lawsuits
A federal judge said the FTC failed to establish that Facebook has a monopoly in social networking
By David McLaughlin / Bloomberg
June 29, 2021
Inside Facebook's Meeting With Palestinian Officials Over Posts Inaccurately Flagged as Incitement to Violence
“They promised they would revisit and reevaluate their framework”
By Billy Perrigo
June 3, 2021
Trump Stays Banned From Facebook—For Now
The decision by Facebook's handpicked Oversight Board opens the door for Trump to return to social media
By Billy Perrigo
May 5, 2021
Shrimp Tails in Cinnamon Toast Crunch Viral Saga Explained
A Twitter user who claims to have found shrimp tails in a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch has kicked off a viral Twitter saga
By Megan McCluskey
March 24, 2021
Facebook Is Building 'Instagram Kids'
It's an effort to get Facebook's popular products into the hands of the next generation of internet users
By Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg
March 19, 2021
Why Twitter Blocked Accounts Linked to India Farmers Protests
Twitter blocked access to accounts associated with farmers protesting against the Indian government on Monday, in a localized blackout of some 250 accounts and tweets. The blocks, which only applied for viewers based in India,...
By Billy Perrigo
February 1, 2021
What Facebook's Oversight Board Means for Big Tech
The ruling on the Trump case is a major test of whether users and lawmakers will trust the company's attempts to regulate itself
By Billy Perrigo
April 30, 2021
Bernie Sanders Mittens Memes Take Over Social Media
Creatives evolved "Bernie Sanders in a Chair" beyond the confines of a normal meme
By Megan McCluskey
April 30, 2021
Sea Shanty TikTok Trend Explained
In centuries past, these call-and-response work songs maintained a ship crew's focus on safely navigating often dangerous waters
By Megan McCluskey
January 13, 2021
Why Deplatforming Trump and Parler Won't Fix Long-Term Damage
If democracy is a river, or a forest, or a pristine meadow, then social media platforms are a factory spewing toxic pollutants into it. Even if you block the new effluent, the pollution that has...
By Billy Perrigo
January 15, 2021
Why Facebook and Twitter Finally Suspended Trump After Capitol Riots
The events at the Capitol seemed a glaring sign that the risk to democracy was finally greater than the necessity of giving a sitting President a platform to speak
By Billy Perrigo
April 30, 2021
Facebook, Twitter Lock Trump's Accounts for Inciting Violence
The social media giants removed posts by President Donald Trump, and blocked him from posting to his tens of millions of followers on Wednesday
By Megan McCluskey
June 30, 2021
Critics Are Skeptical of Facebook's Oversight Board
Some critics argue the Facebook Oversight Board's powers are too limited to actually take on the big-picture problems Facebook has with misinformation and hate speech
By Billy Perrigo
December 7, 2020
Facebook Kills Pro-Trump 'Stop the Steal' Group
Facebook said it removed the group on Thursday over "worrying calls for violence"
By Megan McCluskey
April 30, 2021
The Doomscrolling Capital of the Internet
Every morning, Johnny Sayles wakes up and scrolls through news about the collapse of human civilization. Formerly a medical assistant at a surgical department in Washington state, Sayles was laid off at the beginning of...
By Billy Perrigo
November 2, 2020
Facebook Banned Holocaust Denial. What Took So Long?
Facebook updated its rules on Monday to explicitly ban any content that “denies or distorts” the Holocaust
By Billy Perrigo
October 12, 2020
TikTok Ban Blocked by Judge
President Donald Trump’s ban on TikTok was temporarily blocked by a federal judge hours before it was due to be removed from U.S. app stores.
By David Yaffe-Bellany and Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg
September 27, 2020
Facebook's Ties to India's BJP Under Scrutiny
The world's biggest social network has multi-billion dollar plans for India. What happens when BJP politicians use its platforms to spread hatred?
By Billy Perrigo
August 28, 2020
How TikTok Found Itself in the Middle of a U.S.-China Tech War
First they went after Huawei. Then it was gummy bears singing Adele. TikTok--the social-media platform where primarily Gen Z users share dance routines and zany memes involving crooning fruit candies and the like--has become the...
By Charlie Campbell/Shanghai
August 6, 2020
TikTok Teens Are ‘Going to War’ Against the Trump App
Efforts to push the app low enough so that Apple will remove it from the app store may be misguided
By Shelly Banjo and Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou / Bloomberg
April 30, 2021
TikTok Pulls Out of Hong Kong
TikTok, which has insisted it operates independently of Beijing despite its Chinese ownership, may be able to argue the withdrawal is a move to escape requests to censor content or share user data
By Zheping Huang and Shelly Banjo / Bloomberg
April 30, 2021
Facebook Is Taking on Zoom With a 50-Person Video Chat Feature
Messenger Rooms will be free for all users, with no time limit
April 25, 2020
Tech Companies Are Erasing Crucial Evidence of War Crimes
Filmed by a Syrian opposition soldier riding in the back of a pickup truck, the shaky footage posted to Facebook on Oct. 14 showed Turkish troops walking cheerfully across a rocky plain in northern Syria...
By Billy Perrigo/London
July 4, 2020
How Social Media Is Shaping COVID-19 Fears
Disinformation and anxiety is widespread online — but there are helpers, too
By Alejandro de la Garza
April 30, 2021
Twitter Verified a Teen's Fake Politician Account
Twitter verified an account for a fake congressional candidate
By Madeleine Carlisle
March 1, 2020
Terms Like ‘OK Boomer’ Are Hard to Define. This Dictionary Is Trying To Do It Anyway
Dictionaries usually wait years before writing about a new word so that its meaning has time to settle
By Katy Steinmetz
February 11, 2020
'I Wish We Could Connect on This Level.' Memes Still Aren't Accessible to People Who Are Blind. What's Being Done About It?
If you’ve spent a lot of time on the internet in the last decade, you might immediately recognize this description: a toddler clenches his fist in front of a determined-looking face. “Success kid” is one...
By Rachel E. Greenspan
January 28, 2020
Vine Reboot Is Already Beating TikTok in the App Store
Byte, a new video-sharing app released Friday to compete with ByteDance’s TikTok, has rocketed to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store. Created by Dom Hofmann, Byte reboots the deprecated Vine video-sharing service, which he...
By Vlad Savov / Bloomberg
January 27, 2020
Vine Has a Successor: Six-Second Video App Byte
The new app launched on Android and iOS on Friday
By Tara Law
January 26, 2020
Michelle Obama Launches New Series About College
Obama's initiative Reach Higher aims to help students get to and through college
By Madeleine Carlisle
January 11, 2020
Facebook Still Won’t Fact-Check Political Ads Headed Into Election Season
Instead, the company will allow users the option to see less political ads on their feed
By Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg
January 9, 2020
Twitter Backs Down From Plan To Delete Inactive Accounts, Citing Dead Users
Twitter has backed off a plan to purge inactive accounts after a backlash from people pointing out that it would cull most dead people’s tweet archives. The social media site had announced it would, on...
By Billy Perrigo
November 28, 2019
TikTok Restores Account of New Jersey Teen Who Criticized China's Treatment of Uighur Muslims
The app apologized and called the suspended account a "human moderation error"
By Max Zimmerman / Bloomberg
November 28, 2019
Facebook Says It’s Removing More Hate Speech Than Ever Before. But There’s a Catch
On Nov. 13, Facebook announced with great fanfare that it was taking down substantially more posts containing hate speech from its platform than ever before. Facebook removed more than seven million instances of hate speech...
By Billy Perrigo
November 28, 2019
Female 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates Face a 'Gender Penalty' Online, Study Finds
A new analysis of Twitter and news coverage surrounding the Democratic primary candidates for the U.S. 2020 presidential elections shows that female candidates are attacked significantly more often than male candidates by trolls and fake...
By Suyin Haynes
November 5, 2019
A Study Analyzed 10 Million Online Posts Over 3.5 Years. It Found a Torrent of Transphobic Abuse
'You have to be dead inside to not let it bother you,' says one transgender activist
By Suyin Haynes
October 25, 2019
Video App TikTok May Pose National Security Threat, Senators Say
The Chinese-owned startup has been downloaded over 110 million times in the U.S.
By Alyza Sebenius / Bloomberg
April 30, 2021
After Sharing a Video Showing How Panera Bread Really Makes Its Mac and Cheese, This Employee Lost Her Job
The TikTok video has nearly a million likes.
By Jasmine Aguilera
April 30, 2021
Sophie Turner Wears a Beanie to Call Out Influencers on Instagram for Promoting Diet Products
The 'Game of Thrones' star made fun of the promotional content on her own Insta
By Rachel E. Greenspan
October 10, 2019
Facebook's New Dating Feature Lets You Pick a 'Secret Crush' From Your Instagram Network
It's rolling out in the U.S.
By Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg
April 30, 2021
The Emoji Mashup Bot Is Creating Fun, Weird, and Useful New Emoji. Meet the 18-Year-Old Developer Behind It
Alien cowboy, anyone? What about a cursing cat?
By Patrick Lucas Austin
August 29, 2019
Instagram Will Let Users Flag Posts They Think Are Fake
Flagged posts will be removed from the "explore" page and hashtag search results
By Hillary Leung
August 16, 2019
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