Hong Kong educators and a lawmaker are urging the city to ban children under 16 from social media, calling addiction “the biggest problem facing education.” At a panel discussion this week, Lilian Chan Lui Ling-yee, honorary president of the Yan Oi Ass…
X is shutting down its revenue-sharing programme on September 7 and replacing it with a new system called the Original Content Rewards Programme. The change is designed to reward creators who post original work, not people who repost other users’ conte…
In the second phase of the landmark New Mexico case, the judge says Facebook and Instagram are major polluters.
The ruling is in addition to the $375 million Meta was ordered to pay in the same lawsuit in March.
Jimothy Raccoon, the squat, viral Seattle-based mammal, is now immortalized inside Roku City. Here’s how that happened
Getting on social media too young may cost children in the classroom. A large new study has found that pupils who joined the platforms early went on to earn worse grades than those who waited. The research is unusually robust. Published in Nature Human…
Reddit is increasing its use of moderation tools and getting rid of Automod, and many moderators aren’t happy at all.
X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor, writing that “it’s time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster.” He shared the update just over a month after celebrating his one-year anniversary on the job, and just […]
The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since been hospitalized.
Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it easier for legitimate newcomers to participate.