Twitter has largely abandoned an image-cropping algorithm after determining the automated system was biased. Some users complained it had a preference toward showing pictures of white people in previews of tweets.

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As anxiety and depression soar among adolescents, researchers struggle to understand how exactly social media affects mental health.

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A new tool reveals how apps like TikTok and Instagram can potentially use JavaScript to view sensitive data.

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Tara McGowan, one of the Democratic party’s most innovate digital strategists, joins Jon to talk about ways Democrats are fighting back against the MAGA Movement’s control of the internet. They discuss what impact, if any, political advertising has in an online era, why John Fetterman’s tweets are so damn good, and why they’re fed up with Democrat’s annoying fundraising emails.

Three hundred current employees at TikTok and its parent company ByteDance previously worked for Chinese state media publications, according to public employee LinkedIn profiles reviewed by Forbes.

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