By now, you’ve probably heard about Elon Musk’s grand plan to turn X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, into an “everything app.” One of the major pillars of Musk’s reimagining of X includes a payment platform much like PayPal or Venmo. New documents obtained by Bloomberg shed new light, not only into…

Meta has finally launched the Threads API to developers, meaning third party businesses will be able to build their own integrations into the app. Announced Tuesday morning in a blog post by Threads director of engineering Jesse Chen, the API (Application Programming Interface) will allow external devs to build their own apps to publish custom…

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced Monday that he believes social media platforms should come with a warning label, in an effort to help protect young people from related mental health risks. “A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved…

Between misinformation, comparison, and general fatigue, navigating social media apps in 2024 can be pretty rough. It’s a consensus we all seem to agree on, despite the amount of time we spend scrolling. If you ask developers, the answer to this troubling phenomenon is more social media apps. Each year, dozens of new social media…

According to a new investigative report by Reuters, the Pentagon ran a year-long vaccine disinformation campaign using social media bots — all part of an anti-China political play built on problematic COVID-19 disinformation. One part of a larger, locally-targeted anti-vax campaign around the world, the propaganda efforts sought to discredit the validity of China’s Sinovac…