How do street gangs use social media? Study sheds light on 'cyberbanging'
"Instead of hanging out on street corners, they're hanging out on social media." That's how Francesco Carlo Campisi, a Ph.D.
Climate misinformation is rife on social media—and poised to get worse
The decision by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to end its fact-checking program and otherwise reduce ...
Why are people swapping profile photos with blacked-out posts on Facebook?
Across Facebook profile pictures turned black as a protest over the inauguration. We saw it after the presidential election in November too.
How to Hide Yourself on Instagram, Facebook, X, and Other Social Media Platforms
If you don't want other people to find you on social media, here's how to go about it: Including instructions for Instagram, ...
Free Our Feeds Aims to Decentralize Social Media With—or Instead of—Bluesky
The new organization wants to build on the open-source, user-defined model of the increasingly popular platform Bluesky, in ...
Meta ends fact-checking. Here’s how to find the truth on social media.
Meta’s shift away from fact checking will require changes for the billions of people who use Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
A $30 million campaign to free social media from billionaire control is now underway
The campaign aims to raise $30 million to build an open-source social platform free from "billionaire control." ...
Meta Says It Will End Its Fact-Checking Program on Social Media Posts
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on ...