With 12 full days left until the 2024 U.S. presidential election, there are still concerns about if Meta can properly moderate political content on its platforms. Two months ago, a Facebook user put the faces of presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on top of Jim Carrey and…
Erin Lee Carr’s latest documentary Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara investigates the mystery of ‘Fake Tegan’, a hacker who has been terrorizing the legendary band for over 15 years. In this interview, Tegan and Sara open up about how this saga has affected not only their personal lives but their careers and their…
ElonJet, the social media account that tracks Elon Musk’s jet, has been banned once again. But this time it’s not by Elon Musk and X, formerly Twitter. The account has been banned there since December 2022. (The platform allows an alternative version of ElonJet which posts Musk’s jet’s travels on a 24-hour delay.) This time…
We warned you that this change was coming – but X has just made it official: Blocking on Elon Musk’s social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, will no longer actually block users from viewing content — and now users appear to be fleeing X once again. Tweet may have been deleted Essentially, a block…
The swift rise of sextortion in the past year has put teens at a severe disadvantage against bad actors determined to blackmail them for money. On Thursday, Instagram responded to the ongoing crisis by launching a major campaign designed to prevent and thwart sextortion. The crime typically takes place on social media platforms, when an…
Day after day of nothing to do other than scroll — on Insta, on TikTok, on YouTube. This was the reality for the teens of Social Studies, the FX docuseries that chronicled their lives as they slowly returned to the normalcy shattered by COVID. Esteemed photographer and documentarian Lauren Greenfield (THIN, The Queen of Versailles,…
What do you do when people aren’t taking the climate crisis seriously? You make them part of the problem. That’s the narrative-altering tack taken by Act of Man, a new nonpartisan climate coalition and social activation that’s shifting the vocabulary around so-called “natural” disasters to center the increasingly essential role of human climate change in…
BlueSky isn’t trying to replace Twitter, all of a sudden. Instead, it’s making a pitch to replace Threads, Meta’s Twitter alternative. The social media platform created an account on Threads this week and immediately began pitching itself as an alternative to the site. Threads has come under fire lately for its haphazard content moderation and…
Social media has been a part of Americans’ lives for well over a decade and, in part because of its newness, some people argue that there is a dearth of research about its effect on us — particularly its effect on young people. For the first time ever, the Centers for Disease Control’s Youth Risk…
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