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Category: Social Media
Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers
Researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta aren’t providing data they’re legally required to. In the final weeks before Romania’s presidential […]
TikTok says AI-generated spam ‘crowds out original creators’ — so it’s teaching users how to spot AI
(Image credit: Shutterstock / Good Ideas) TikTok is releasing a new tool to help users identify AI spam It says […]
Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderation
This week, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) won a key battle in its fight to reverse a visa-restriction […]
‘Ineffective and useless’: the UK government is proposing a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, but there’s an easy loophole
More restrictions are coming in for UK kids (Image credit: Shutterstock) The UK is proposing a social media curfew for […]
‘Our brains were not necessarily meant to be this stimulated first thing in the morning’: psychologists explain why you reach for your phone as soon as you wake up — and what you can do to stop it
(Image credit: Getty Images / Anna Barclay) Whether rain or shine, weekday or weekend, my morning starts with a scroll. […]
Disable autoplay and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta
The European Union is ramping up pressure on Meta to make big changes to Facebook and Instagram after the European […]
I read Careless People, the Meta tell-all — and it made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write
(Image credit: Getty Images / Bloomberg) Do you remember the metaverse? If you don’t, don’t worry. In 2026, four years […]
TikTok users don’t have as much agency over their FYPs as they think
“We basically work from the assumption that if we want data, then we need to obtain it ourselves,” Sapiezynski said […]
Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com
Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect “over […]