Gen Z may be more immune to the lure of misinformation because younger people apply more context, nuance and skepticism to their online information consumption, experts and new polling suggests. Why it matters: An innate understanding of social media influence, virality and algorithms among Gen Z — defined by Pew as the cohort born between 1997 and 2012 — could disarm the misinformation and disinformation racking the U.S.

Twitter is investigating after users discovered its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to black ones. Users noticed when two photos - one of a black face the other of a white one - were in the same post, Twitter often showed only the white face on mobile. Twitter said it had tested for racial and gender bias during the algorithm's development.

Facebook is vowing new steps to provide users with accurate climate change information and cut emissions, but activists say it's doing too little to confront the spread of false claims on its platform. Driving the news: The social media giant on Tuesday announced launch of the "Climate Science Information Center."

Analysis shows footage of Biden edited to make him look olderTwitter flags Trump campaign videos as ‘manipulated media’

Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok's U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut down in the United States, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday.

TV host and unlicensed huckster Dr. Phil took to TikTok this week to kindly ask his followers to stop calling him "daddy." It did not work.

Thailand’s natural resources and environment minister shared a new way of dealing with tourists who leave behind their trash: mailing it back to them. On his Facebook page, Varawut Silpa-archa posted a photo of a box of trash left at a national park that appeared ready to be mailed back to its original owners along with a note that said, “You forgot something at Khao Yai National Park.”

Facebook employees are outraged over the company’s “shameful” and “unconscionable” decision not to remove a post from President Donald Trump spreading voting misinformation that could lead to people voting twice.

A US retailer & a UK retailer listed Oculus Quest as discontinued, while other retailers now only show 3rd party listings. This comes just two weeks before Facebook Connect.

A man who had written for a site that officials say was a front for a Russian group said his mysterious editor “had a different kind of agenda.”

In the same interview, the Facebook CEO said he has no intention of removing anti-vaxxer posts.

The beleaguered app describes the inner workings of its video-selection code.

Twitter has been taking increasing action against accounts that violate its policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior ahead of the 2020 election.

Without the support of social platforms, our efforts to stamp out viral misinformation feel futile.

Election day 2020 is only two months away. Our nation is divided into two vocal camps…those who support President Trump and those who don’t. There seem to be very few voters who fall into the “undecided” bucket, and Trump and Biden haven’t even had a debate yet. Because of this, we might question the “why” of Dan Partland’s documentary, #Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump. However, what it does is condense three and a half years of President Trump’s actions and words into about 80 minutes of jarring psychoanalysis.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, seemingly stung by criticism that the social media giant he oversees has fueled right-wing extremism, is working hard to burnish his image as a defender of democracy. The New York Times reports that on Thursday “Facebook moved to clamp down on any confusion about the November election on its service, rolling out a sweeping set of changes to try to limit voter misinformation and prevent interference from President Trump and other politicians.”

A viral video featuring doctors making false and misleading claims about coronavirus that was shared by President Trump was removed by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube this week.

Facebook is broadening its definition of hate speech. On Tuesday, Facebook released its latest Community Standards Enforcement Report, which breaks down the content it took down for violating its policies between April and June 2020

Three current and former employees expressed concerns about the Chinese-owned app’s safeguards for preteen children.

WhatsApp has launched messenger rooms to connect with people virtually. You can access this functionality via desktop version app.