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You’re Not Buying That—Social Media Is: How Facebook & Instagram Secretly Control What You Want
Imagine scrolling through Instagram after a long day. A beautifully filtered image pops up—someone sipping a latte in a ...
Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections
Meta declined to comment further on the company's vision for social media's future. In a statement, a Meta spokesperson told Ars that "the FTC’s lawsuit against Meta defies reality," claiming that it ...
Differentiate on social media and win: Why brands must have unique content strategies on platforms like X
Researchers from the University of Rochester and the University of Maryland have published a study that examines whether and ...
MIT Technology Review4d
Can crowdsourced fact-checking curb misinformation on social media?
Meta shut down their professional factchecker program and replaced it with Community Notes. What does this mean for the ...
Does Meta Have a Social Media Monopoly? Here’s What the U.S. Has Argued.
The government showed hundreds of internal documents as it sought to prove that the social media company bought Instagram and ...
The Texas Tribune on MSN4d
Texas lawmakers are poised to ban minors from social media
The Texas Legislature has already passed a bill requiring age verification to download apps and is seriously considering ...
Texas bill pushes strictest social media ban for minors in the nation
Proposed Texas legislation, Bill 186, would ban minors from social media, enforce parental consent, and address the risks ...
Benzinga.com2d
Top Performing Social Media Stocks
Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. These sites are three of the top four social media platforms in the world by user base. In July 2023, Meta launched Threads ...
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Social media suppresses women's health content more than men's, Brits say
A study of 4,000 people conducted by OnePoll on behalf of hygiene and health company Essity found that three quarters of ...
Major social media platforms fail to protect LGBTQ users, advocacy group GLAAD says
Major social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and X have failed to protect LGBTQ+ users from hate and harassment, in ...