Anyone who’s ventured a few inches south of YouTube’s video player can attest to what a wasteland the comment section is. Amid the stale jokes and thinly veiled hate speech is another blight on the landscape: spam comments. These spammers, who tend to swarm popular and finance-focused channels like plagues of locusts, hawking vague entrepreneurial…

One of the best ways to protect your accounts from unauthorized intruders is to set up two-factor authentication (aka 2FA) for them. 2FA is an extra layer of security that makes it so a hacker needs more than just your username and password to get into your account. 2FA usually plays out as a company…

What do you do if it’s “Time to BeReal” during a bank robbery? This Saturday Night Live sketch has the answer. This week’s host Miles Teller and SNL cast member Mikey Day play bank robbers in the middle of a holdup when the hostages’ daily BeReal notifications go off. If you know about the social…

Ever wonder how someone got so many Instagram followers? We have great news for your ego: Some of those followers might be fake. It’s likely that, even if you’ve never bought followers, you’ve still been followed by a few bots. This is largely unavoidable — and many bots are harmless — but you should still…

I was online, like I always seem to be, when Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida earlier this week. I flicked through Twitter and endlessly scrolled TikTok as the afternoon stretched into evening. It was a weird, troubling experience. Being online during a natural disaster like Ian is a strange mix of live devastation and…

Wednesday at 3:05 p.m. ET was the moment the eye of Hurricane Ian officially made its landfall in the U.S., by hitting the barrier island of Cayo Costa, about 89 miles south of Tampa, according to the National Weather Service. Ian was clocked as a Category 4 with 150 mile-per-hour winds, and, as of this…

Truth Social is still MIA in Google’s mobile app store and it’s not because an Android version of the platform doesn’t exist. According to a new report from Axios, Donald Trump’s conservative social network still has not been approved by Google for its Google Play store due to content moderation concerns from the tech giant.…

Former president Donald Trump’s conservative social media safe haven, Truth Social, is being accused by a vendor of nonpayment of upwards of $1 million in hosting fees, according to a report from Fox Business on Thursday. The allegations come from RightForge, an internet infrastructure company, and one of Truth Social’s biggest vendors and creditors. If…

If you’re worried that a stalker is going to show up at your door after tracking you through your Instagram posts — take a deep breath. It’s probably not going to happen. Earlier this week, a popular message began circulating around Instagram via stories and grid posts from both casual users and big brands. The…

Instagram’s ongoing quest to be anything other than itself has a new development. The app is now running internal tests of a feature that will randomly prompt users to take spontaneous selfies — a function that sounds a lot like social media photo app BeReal. Spotted by developer and notable leaker Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram’s new…