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The restrictions, which can be turned off, will include a crackdown on “addictive” app features and will be in addition to a total ban on children under 16 accessing platforms like TikTok and YouTube.

A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.

X's head of product, Nikita Bier, admitted in a post on Monday that X's algorithm was "missing" data about surfacing posts from people who you've followed back. Now, he says a tweak will "boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals," hopefully enhancing the sense of community instead of highlighting and spreading random arguments, but […]

Following a worrying new report, Europe is taking steps toward barring children from using social media.

The European Union is weighing sweeping new restrictions on children's and teenagers' access to social media, including age limits, an outright ban, and phased access. Social media platforms could also be forced to prove their services are not harmful before young people are allowed to use them. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said […]

Meta told Dylan Byers, of Puck News, that it had nixed the feature after backlash from its user base.

Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconventional social media platform.

The animal escaped after apparently arriving inside a package at Meta's Bangkok office, injuring one employee before finally being caught.

The social platform wants its crowd-sourced corrections to be harder to ignore.

X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.

The "not interested" feature is your friend, but users must intentionally and constantly curate their FYPs

Nikita Bier, X's head of product, said in a post on Monday that "[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral," while noting that videos on the platform "make up close to half the impressions on X." According to Bier, X is launching a […]

A bug may have led to around 8,200 erroneous bans on Discord.

X now has a built-in video editor on iOS.

X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green-screen effects, and other editing tools.

Discord says a bug affecting its safety system caused it to mistakenly ban more than 8,000 accounts since May. The platform's statement follows a wave of reports from users over the past week, who say they've been banned for posting images containing grids, such as chessboards, game textures, and even Minecraft inventories. Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord […]

Meta is facing a massive lawsuit from four US states over the addictive designs of its platforms.

You can minimize the risk of films and shows being spoiled for you by muting comments, conversations, and keywords on various platforms.

New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.

X has launched a new live streaming command center and additional creator payouts.