The majority of social media users are standing behind Big Tech companies’ efforts to curb misinformation, even as users of “alternative” social media sites find community in the unregulated media environments fostered by “free-speech” advocates. The information comes from a new study by the Pew Research Center, published Oct. 6, which dives into the motivations…
Before quiet quitting took corporate America by storm, Black women were quietly quitting their arduous lifestyles. They dubbed it the soft life: An online aesthetic movement that emerged in 2021 that called for Black women to let go of the astronomical expectation that they do it all. Rather than live a life of stress trying…
For those who dream of a four-day workweek, Dictionary.com feels your pain. And to give you the language to express your woes, it’s added a slew of work related terms — plus a few internet faves, climate terms, and accurate Ukrainian endonyms. On Tuesday, the online dictionary announced 620 new entries, 700 new definitions for…
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.…