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Instagram is making teen accounts private by default as it tries to make the platform safer for children amid a growing backlash against how social media affects young people’s lives.This post was originally published on […]

It happens in milliseconds, ideally, as you browse the web. Networks of computers and software analyze who you are, what you are looking at and buy and sell the advertisements you see on web pages.This […]

San Mateo County, California, home to tech giant Meta, urged Congress to pass legislation requiring social media companies to add labels to their platforms warning people about their potential to harm users’ mental health.This post […]

An Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy launched an investigation Thursday into Google’s artificial intelligence development.This post was originally published on this site

Is Brazil’s shutdown of Elon Musk’s X a drastic but necessary move in the global fight against disinformation, or pure censorship?This post was originally published on this site

Australia will ban children from using social media with a minimum age limit as high as 16, the prime minister said Tuesday, vowing to get kids off their devices and “onto the footy fields”.This post […]

How do online crowds form, grow and behave? How do they wield influence? What distinguishes desirable crowd activism from mob harassment?This post was originally published on this site

Telegram founder and chief executive Pavel Durov on Friday announced a range of new features aimed at combating illicit content, bots and scammers, a week after he was arrested and charged by French authorities over […]

Millions of Brazilians, including the president, have flocked to social media platforms such as Threads or Bluesky, where Portuguese has become the most spoken language in the few days since Elon Musk’s X was shut […]

Meta, which owns social media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, has revealed its plans for keeping kids safe online. It wants companies like Apple and Google, who run mobile phone app stores, to force […]