New grassroots group wants to save social media from billionaires
A new battle is brewing for the future of social media . Over the past few years, the social media ecosystem has shifted ...
How to Hide Yourself on Instagram, Facebook, X, and Other Social Media Platforms
If you don't want other people to find you on social media, here's how to go about it: Including instructions for Instagram, ...
Free Our Feeds Aims to Decentralize Social Media With—or Instead of—Bluesky
The new organization wants to build on the open-source, user-defined model of the increasingly popular platform Bluesky, in ...
A $30 million campaign to free social media from billionaire control is now underway
The campaign aims to raise $30 million to build an open-source social platform free from "billionaire control." ...
With TikTok Ban Set, American Tech Giants Can Monopolize Social Media Again
Meanwhile, Snap is poised to capitalize, while other popular Chinese apps like RedNote may be newly scrutinized.
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Kenya Issues New Directive to Social Media Companies X and Facebook
The Ministry of Interior has issued new directives to popular social media companies X (formerly Twitter) owned by Elon Musk ...
Climate misinformation is rife on social media – and poised to get worse
Heat waves, flooding and fire conditions are becoming more common and catastrophic as the world warms. Extreme weather events often lead to a spike in social media attention to climate change. Social ...
TikTok is under fire for harvesting data – but is it worse than any other social media platform?
With the deadline for ByteDance to sell TikTok or be banned in the US drawing ever-closer, there's been a lot of buzz around why the ban is happening. TikTok's collection of user data has been the ...
Indonesia to push social media protections ahead of age-limit law
Indonesia will impose interim child protection guidelines on social media companies while the government carves out a law to ...