This ’90s-esque social media site only works for three hours a day
It has the energy of a ’90s or early 2000s web forum: the kind of old-school site that you joined for god knows what reason, ...
Social Media Platforms Shouldn't Own Your Identity
Governor Spencer Cox and Frank H. McCourt Jr. argue that social media users should be able to own their personal data.
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This Social Media Site Limits Use To 3 Hours A Day
Lately, a lot of social media sites have been popping up, largely due to the desire for alternatives to currently existing ...
Gen Z is flocking to the one social media platform millennials didn't ruin
These and several other lasting internet trends and IRL movements of the 2010s were born not on Twitter, on Facebook, or in ...
Columbia Journalism Review5d
Can a ‘Civil’ Social Media Site Produce Good Journalism?
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. At first glance—with its sky-blue trim, scrolling feed, and quirky ...
Will TikTok be sold? Social media site faces Saturday deadline
It’s possible President Donald Trump could extend the deadline by signing an executive order, but he hasn’t indicated that he ...
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Social media platforms could be in for a popularity tax in Minnesota
A revenue estimate anticipates that 15 social media sites would be subject to the tax since they have more than 100,000 ...
Nature5d
Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?
Researchers are debating the strength of evidence connecting technology to surging rates of adolescent mental illness. But ...
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Social media post distorts ballot shortage in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election
Just after polls closed April 1 for the Wisconsin state Supreme Court election, a right-leaning social media account distorted information about a few polling locations running out of ballots.
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Dozens of States Weigh Cell Phone Bans as Attorneys General Sue Social Media for Addicting Children to Devices
With health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drawing criticism for suggesting biological harms to children from cell phones, ...
Kash Patel opens up to Congress about his crackdown on social media companies
The FBI director’s comments about working with social media companies raise all sorts of questions about that relationship.
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Why Does Everyone Think They Can Fix Social Networking?
Tucked among splashy affairs of SXSW in early March was a talk by Ev Williams, the investor known for having founded Twitter, Medium, and Blogger. This year he is promoting his new social app, Mozi.