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Doctors are sending a warning about yet another social media challenge they say could be dangerous. The latest one making a splash on the social media platform Tik Tok is called the "dry scooping challenge."

Automated software that simulates people is the primary driver of COVID-19 misinformation, a study finds.

Anti-vaccination profiles on Twitter tend to be more engaged in discussions and rely on a more interconnected social network compared to their ...

In May, a mysterious marketing agency contacted French influencer Léo Grasset and made a strange request. The agency told Grasset, a popular science blogger, that it would pay him a "colossal" amount of money if he publicly cast doubt on the effectiveness of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine.

'I was forced to exist separately from my peers for nearly two weeks.'

British subscription site OnlyFans is failing to prevent underage users from selling and appearing in explicit videos, a BBC investigation has found.

Facebook announced Friday that former President Donald Trump would be suspended from its platform until at least January 7th, 2023 -- two years from when he was initially suspended.

Social media companies prohibit kids under 13 from signing up because of federal privacy law. But parents like Danielle Hawkins can tell you a different story. "She got on Instagram and Snapchat without my approval when she was about 12," Hawkins, a mom of four who lives near Detroit, said of her eldest daughter.

The pervasive metaphor likening information to crude obscures the reality of surveillance capitalism

Users will make the final choice on seeing "Likes" in their feeds.

Religion, education, race and media consumption are strong predictors of conspiracy theory acceptance among Americans, according to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute. The survey of 5,149 adults living across the United States released on Thursday finds a strong correlation between consuming right-wing media sources and accepting conspiracy theories such as QAnon.

After years of talking about it, Facebook officially released its likes-hiding option on Facebook and Instagram. Users of both apps can choose to hide the number of likes and reactions for their own posts or others on their feeds. Let's focus on Insta. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri said that the hiding likes option was first created to "depressurize the experience" on the platform. But after a bunch of testing, Instagram found that user wellbeing and app usage didn't change when likes were removed.

It comes as the social media giant attempts to diversify its revenue sources from advertising.

Users across the world will be able to choose whether to hide the Like Counts on their app.

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Wednesday it would take "stronger" action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on the platform.

Internet memes are one of the latest evolutions of “leaflet” propaganda and an effective tool in the arsenal of digital persuasion. In the past such items were dropped from planes, now they find their way into social media across multiple platforms and their territory is global.

Twitter has largely abandoned an image-cropping algorithm after determining the automated system was biased. Some users complained it had a preference toward showing pictures of white people in previews of tweets.

Once mainly a scourge of VR headsets, cybersickness seems to be on the rise as the pandemic pushes our bodies to their digital limits.

The company has reached out to a number of researchers in recent months, though those same researchers are skeptical about the company's motivations.