Have we already moved beyond peak social media?

With machine translation, dubbing apps, and VPNs, Chinese creators are shortening movies for Americans.

A study that looked back at those tests found that relatively weak social connections were more helpful in finding jobs than stronger social ties.

Just like Putin, Zuckerberg went all-in on something that he wasn’t really ready to handle, putting everything else in jeopardy as a result.

Walkie-talkie app Voxer accused Meta in 2020 of infringing its patents of communications tech, and a jury ruled in Voxer's favor on Wednesday.

Researchers from UC Davis looked at how the politically polarized nature of COVID-19 information, and misinformation, on social media has given rise to anxiety, sadness, anger and hostility that feeds incivility.

Cooking chicken in cough medicine NyQuil is not only silly and unappetizing but can also be very unsafe, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said, following the "sleepy chicken" TikTok challenge.

The Pentagon is reportedly to conduct an audit of the US military's social media PSYOP practices, following the removal of several fake bot accounts.

The lack of regulation of online platforms puts our private lives up for sale.

A new pro-Trump dating app backed by right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel has not even launched yet, but it’s already facing lots of rejection. The Right Stuff, scheduled to debut this month, was co-founded by former Trump body man and aspiring matchmaker Johnny McEntee, who recruited the sister of former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany to help launch the app.

The biggest open secret in short form video has nothing to do with the algorithm. The secret is that you can’t get rich on TikTok, because even the most viral creators earn a negligible portion of their income from the platform itself.

For the past year, Texas has been fighting in court to uphold a controversial law that would ban tech companies from content moderation based on viewpoints. In May, the Supreme Court narrowly blocked the law, but this seemed to do little to settle the matter. Today, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower Texas court's decision to block the law, ruling instead that the Texas law be upheld, The Washington Post reported.

Instagram’s poor moderation has allowed the content to flourish, despite appearing to violate the platform's community guidelines

Meta has longed to see its Reels feature grab a piece of the short form video pie from TikTok, but both users and influencers apparently aren’t too interested.

YouTube’s royalty system has long been criticized by multiple music-industry organizations for opaqueness, a lack of oversight and, many feel, insufficient payments. But a new report in Billboard m…

Facebook parent company Meta has reportedly disbanded an internal team dedicated to studying the potential negative impacts of the company's products, including Facebook and Instagram. Around 20 engineers, ethicists and others made up the Responsible Innovation team, as it was called, which until now had assessed potential concerns about new products and changes to Facebook and Instagram, according to The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

American social media companies are increasingly feeling the squeeze from TikTok, the fastest growing video platform on the planet, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance. “It just feels like they are kicking the shit out of everybody,” Scott Galloway, co-host of the Pivot podcast and a marketing professor at NYU Stern, told Snap CEO Evan Spiegel at the Code Conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

In a new article published in the journal Body Image, a team of psychology researchers outline a mountain of evidence linking social media use to body image issues. The researchers describe how algorithms may be intensifying this link and urge social media corporations to take action.

Group was put in place to address potential downsides of the company’s products; Meta says efforts will continue.

A recently unsealed court document offers some concerning insights.