Happy New Year! It’s now 2023, and with the new year comes the chance to start over fresh. Maybe it’s time for a new, social media-less you? It’s probably easy to say “goodbye” to Facebook. Most of your friends left long ago. However, Facebook is just one part of Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking giant, Meta.…

Ex-kickboxer and online influencer Andrew Tate was detained in Romania in connection to an alleged human trafficking case, Reuters reported Friday. Tate will be detained for 24 hours, alongside his brother Tristan and two other suspects from Romania. The arrests come after a Romanian anti-organised-crime unit raided Tate’s properties, where they found six women who…

It appears that a Twitter alternative has officially broken out from the pack. According to an update from Mastodon, the decentralized, open-source Twitter alternative has been gaining traction fast ever since Twitter was taken over by its new owner, Elon Musk. “Mastodon has recently exploded in popularity, jumping from approx. 300K monthly active users to…

Twitter has suspended several prominent journalists who report on the tech and media industries late on Thursday, without explanation. The journalists affected at the time of writing include Mashable reporter Matt Binder, as well as the New York Times‘ Ryan Mac, CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, the Washington Post‘s Drew Harwell, prominent commentator and former anchor Keith…

Twitter’s founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey is reflecting on how things turned out with the social media platform he was integral in creating, which now belongs to Elon Musk. In both a tweet thread and newsletter post (on Twitter’s now-defunct Revue newsletter platform), Dorsey addressed the Twitter Files, the internal company documents being reported…

RIP @ElonJet…at least for now. Twitter has suspended the popular bot account @ElonJet, which tracked the movement of Elon Musk’s private jet. The account was created by Jack Sweeney, a freshman at the University of Central Florida. So long for now, @ElonJet, victim of Elon Musk’s “free speech” Twitter. Credit: Mashable Screenshot The @ElonJet account…

The humiliating experience of being alive is only made more mortifying by having to share it on Instagram — especially if you’re trying to Make It on the platform. Being online at all comes with its own specific, horrifying kind of anxiety. It’s something that affects all social media users, with the majority of them…

The Oversight Board, an independent body set up to review Facebook and Instagram content decisions and policies, slammed the company on Tuesday over its cross-check program. In its statement, the Oversight Board laid out a number of changes Facebook’s parent company Meta should make regarding content moderation across its social media platforms. Cross-check is an…

The right-wing social media platform Parler says that controversial rapper Kanye West is no longer buying the company. On Thursday, West appeared on InfoWars, the program hosted by far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as part of a media tour pertaining to West’s claim that he is running for president in 2024. (Jones, as you might…

As misinformation, fake news, deepfakes, and conspiracy theories continue to roll around in their own primetime spots on our tech platforms, it’s no real surprise Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2022 is “gaslighting.” According to the dictionary, gaslighting or “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage” saw a…