‘I don’t even remember what I read’: People enter a ‘dissociative state’ when using social media
In a project led by the University of Washington, researchers showed that some people enter a state of dissociation similar ...
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Grubhub customers learn there’s no such thing as a free lunch after all
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Grubhub's attempts to drum up buzz for its food-delivery service by offering "free" lunch in New ...
New Twitter policy aims to pierce fog of war misinformation
In this April 26, 2017, photo is a Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twitter is stepping ...
A new way to train deepfake detection algorithms improves their success
Blending images. The upper diagram shows the typical process of creating deepfakes for training data. The lower diagram shows the ...
Wrong, Elon Musk: The big problem with free speech on platforms isn’t censorship. It’s the algorithms
Credit: Shutterstock Imagine there is a public speaking square in your city, much like the ancient Greek agora. Here you ...
The ‘bots’ at heart of Twitter buyout row
Software 'bots' posing as people can spread misinformation and foment division while making social media audiences seem larger than they ...
Facebook changing with times a decade after stock debut
Facebook employees cheered and shared high-fives at its Silicon Valley headquarters when the then 8-year-old social network made its stock ...
Facebook: from Harvard dorm to global phenomenon
Mark Zuckerberg is seen in 2010, with Facebook already the largest online social network but before its stock market debut. ...
Language matters when Googling controversial people
When the search setting language is changed from English (left) to Arabic (right), searches for Faith Goldy show different results. ...
Why social media firms will struggle to follow new EU rules on illegal content
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Social media allowed us to connect with one another like never before. But it came with ...
Outage outrage: Facebook outage may reveal depth of social media dependency
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Users typically react to social media outages with angry tirades and barbed jokes. But researchers suggest ...
Elon Musk suggests ‘slight cost’ for Twitter’s commercial and government users
Elon Musk said that under his ownership, Twitter Inc. may charge “a slight cost” for commercial and government accounts.Musk floated ...
Researcher creates free comment moderation software for YouTube
A screenshot of FilterBuddy's category page. Credit: Shagun Jhaver As an expert in building a safer and fairer internet, Rutgers ...
Social media regulation: Why we must ensure it is democratic and inclusive
Credit: Tero Vessalainen/Shutterstock News that the world's richest man, Elon Musk, is buying Twitter has sent the world into a ...
Meta expanding massive $1 billion Illinois data center, set to power everything from Facebook to Instagram
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Meta, the social media giant formerly known as Facebook, is expanding its massive $1 billion data ...
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