Instagram profile of ‘proud Black queer momma’, created by Meta, said her development team included no Black people

The lifestyle and social media platform, often compared to Instagram, is turning obscure sites into must-see attractions.

The best of blogging meets the best of social media.

In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.

Meta’s AR glasses are an impressive tease of what Mark Zuckerberg thinks will replace the smartphone.

Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever

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Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase.

Making Facebook and Instagram private won’t delete that data.

Michael Smith, a 52-year-old music producer, is accused of generating more than $10 million in illicit royalties using AI-generated songs.

Strava launched in 2009 as a niche website for cyclists to log mileage. During the pandemic, it blossomed into a mobile app serving more than 120 million athletes as worldwide lockdowns drove people outdoors.

Our results highlight hate speech online as a potential channel through which temperature alters interpersonal conflict and societal aggression. We provide empirical evidence that hot and cold temperatures can aggravate aggressive tendencies online. The prevalence of the results across climatic and socioeconomic subgroups points to limitations in the ability of humans to adapt to temperature extremes.

They claimed X's AI chatbot, Grok, had spread "false information on ballot deadlines."

DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.

Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and YouTube, with little pushback from authorities or platforms.

This Summer, Let’s Reclaim Our Time (Starting June 14th)

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As Mariana Rodríguez campaigns around the clock on Instagram, electoral authorities are wondering how to regulate influencers-turned-politicians.

Despite Meta’s promise to crack down on political content in the app, Taiwanese activists are using it to organize.

This is where AI generated formats, Minecraft splitscreens, Reddit stories, 'Would You Rather' videos, and deep sea story spam come from.

TikTok's set to make an even bigger push on in-stream commerce this year.

Parent company Meta says bug caused ‘inappropriate’ auto-translations and was now fixed while employee says it pushed ‘a lot of people over the edge’

Social media is on the decline. Instagram is all ads. No one's posting on BeReal. TikTok is for influencers. The new place for sharing: group chats.

As the campaign for the 2024 elections in India goes digital, social media influencers have become a powerful tool to try and shape voter behavior.

For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.