The must-have accessory for fall? According to Gen Z, it’s a $30 pair of wired headphones. So why are “It” girls like Lily Rose Depp and the Olsen twins ditching wireless earbuds and opting instead to plug into their devices? “Wired is an attitude,” Shelby Hull, the 24-year-old creator of the Instagram account @wireditgirls, told…
It’s TikTok and Snapchat’s turn in the hot seat on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, executives from TikTok and Snapchat as well as a representative from YouTube answered questions from members of the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security surrounding the current hot-button topic: Kids’ safety on social media platforms. The issue…
In 2014, I was 16 and my Tumblr was four years old. There were thousands of posts: reblogged vintage photographs of Paris in the ’70s, of window sills littered with poetry books, of black boots against grunge city landscapes. The occasional indie song lyric (think The 1975’s brooding poetry) made a guest appearance every now…
Mark Zuckerberg is sick and tired of all the harm caused to Facebook. Yes, you read that correctly. At the top of his company’s third quarter earnings call, the Facebook CEO broadly railed against the 17 news organizations working together to report on a massive trove of leaked internal documents dubbed the Facebook Papers. The…
No matter how bad conditions appear on the surface, it’s even more treacherous below. That’s the disturbing takeaway from the Facebook Papers, a collection of internal Facebook documents leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen and reviewed by 17 news organizations. Their stories paint a picture of a company broken beyond repair, that, despite scandal after scandal,…
Don’t trust anything on the internet — until Mashable tries it first. Welcome to the Hype Test, where we review viral trends and tell you what’s really worth millions of likes. You get your jeans out of the dryer. You wrestle them on and in classic post-dryer form they fit like a glove. Twenty minutes…
New information from internal Facebook documents reveals that the social media company’s misinformation reaches much further than the United States. The documents, dubbed The Facebook Papers and gathered by whistleblower Frances Haugen, demonstrate Facebook’s lack of resources and social awareness in countries like India, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka, leading to the spread of hate speech…
It’s been a week full of TikTok trend revivals and evolutions, but first we need to talk about that Timothée Chalamet video. The Timothée Chalamet video in question Dune has finally hit theaters, and with the sci-fi film’s release came an onslaught of Timothée Chalamet content. Now, Chalamet is typically all over my FYP, but…
Facebook is allegedly changing its name to emphasize being a metaverse company, rather than just a social media one. The announcement was met with some speculation, with many believing that the name change is a rebrand attempt to shift away from the negativity many associate with the company.
Before Patrice Ingram shuts off her bedside light, before she closes her eyes to prepare for the day ahead, she checks Instagram. She’s not floating through a numbing sea of glamorized self-portraits and intricately posed interiors. Instead, she’s navigating the direct messages for Mutual Aid Philly, the volunteer-run organization dedicated to getting Philadelphia’s residents the…