TikTok is preparing to launch a new service that will turn its viral food videos into meals you can actually order and enjoy. THey plan to open 300 locations that will start delivering in 2022 and more than 1,000 restaurants by the end of the year.

More commission-based workers are popping up on social channels as startups provide the tech infrastructure to help them sell directly.

TikTok has been crowned the most popular domain of 2021 by web security and performance company Cloudflare.

Social media posts containing expletives has increased 27% on Twitter and 41% on Facebook between 2019 and 2021. Another profanity-filtering service run by Inversoft found that the volume of filtered words has tripled in the past 18 months on the forums and message boards.

A survey by the Washington Post-Schar School found that 72% of internet users do not trust Facebook to responsibly handle their personal information and data on their internet activity and 64% said that the government should do more to rein in big tech companies.

Efforts to treat individual disinformation outbreaks, rather than the underlying systemic design flaws, are doomed to fail. Here’s what we need.

Major companies like Amazon, Adidas, and Visa are hiring for social-savvy titles.

The Little Lad who love berries and cream is now a TikTok celebrity, as the app moves away from conventional content.

On Android at least

Internationally, pandemic-related stressors and social media are converging in an 'epidemic within a pandemic' of Tourettes-like tics in young people.

Being original on Facebook doesn't pay, according to its own data

The US has now vaccinated 70% of adults with at least one shot against Covid-19, according to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, belatedly reaching a milestone the Biden administration had hoped to hit by July 4.

This week, marginalized streamers united to send Twitch a message: They're fed up.

Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of unreality.

How the Brazilian butt lift, one of the world’s most dangerous plastic surgery procedures, went mainstream.

Some anti-vaccination groups on Facebook are changing their names to euphemisms like “Dance Party” or “Dinner Party,” and using code words to fit those themes.

Social media's #PickMeGirl trend has led to a vicous cycle of women putting down other women. But who's really to blame?

Fashion brands in general seem to be enjoying much of the online discussion.

It’s a Chamber of Desire from which there is no escape

Influencers will be able to earn money by using specific Facebook and Instagram features or by hitting certain milestones.

National Geographic finds continued animal suffering and exploitation in these YouTube videos. Here's what's being done months after the platform pledged to take swift action.