Climate misinformation is rife on social media—and poised to get worse
The decision by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to end its fact-checking program and otherwise reduce ...
How Social Media 2.0 Can Create a Marketplace for the Truth | Opinion
Meta—the Mark Zuckerberg-run company that owns Facebook—closed the fact-checking unit on its multi-billion-user social media ...
Why are people swapping profile photos with blacked-out posts on Facebook?
Across Facebook profile pictures turned black as a protest over the inauguration. We saw it after the presidential election in November too.
The biggest problem with social media isn’t content moderation
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a lot of heat since he announced last week that he is pulling his company out of the ...
How to Hide Yourself on Instagram, Facebook, X, and Other Social Media Platforms
If you don't want other people to find you on social media, here's how to go about it: Including instructions for Instagram, ...
A $30 million campaign to free social media from billionaire control is now underway
The campaign aims to raise $30 million to build an open-source social platform free from "billionaire control." ...
The new Meta policy makes social media a dangerous place for people like me
Mark Zuckerberg's decision to make policy changes to Meta platforms Instagram and Facebook will have real-world consequences ...
Free Our Feeds Aims to Decentralize Social Media With—or Instead of—Bluesky
The new organization wants to build on the open-source, user-defined model of the increasingly popular platform Bluesky, in ...
Meta Says It Will End Its Fact-Checking Program on Social Media Posts
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on ...