The survey of 10,133 US adults between February 7 and 11, 2024, found that 78% felt social media companies had excessive political influence.
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The UK's Open University found that X (previously Twitter) had a greater prevalence of harassment and threats against women and girls than other social media sites.
Shou Chew, CEO of TikTok, has spoken against the US House measure requiring Bytedance to divest or risk a TikTok ban.
Reddit wants $748 million to reach $6.5 billion in its most anticipated IPO in the US.
TikTok launched new programs to help creators navigate the platform and upload creative content while being paid.
House Representatives propose the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to force ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, to divest the app within five months or get banned.
Three sources say Google has agreed to utilize Reddit's material to train its AI algorithms.
After the breakup with Zayn, Gigi Hadid is now having a "social media diet".
Instagram had announced the top 10 most followed celebrity on the social media site and here they are.
Tinder, one of the most popular dating apps in a world, has become very popular in Ukraine over the last year or so. Here are some of the many types of persons you would meet on Tinder by Ukrainians.
Google has removed a Taliban-developed application from the Play Store. While the aim of the application is likely to be establishing its existence digitally as well as globally, the use of the Pastho language indicated that the application targeted mainly local audience.
Instagram announced its decision to apply algorithms to reorder feeds, showing posts based on likelihood instead of time. Instagram is the latest among other social media giants to embrace such change.
Google’s Digital News Initiative (DNI) program has just granted more than $30 million to selected projects in 23 European countries. It’s the first batch of the long-term $170 million project to help stimulate innovation in digital journalism.
Fidelity Investment wrote down many of tech startups in its January valuation report. Canadian startup darling Hootsuite Media Inc. was among the list.
The U.S. officials warned citizens of drug traffickers’ new modus operandi. Senior citizens were targeted in the scheme that deceives them to travel with disguised drugs and meet with people overseas, unknowingly delivering the drugs. The victims were recruited via social media, cyber-begging and telemarketing fraud.
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