TikTok super app now books hotels, streams full songs, tracks FIFA World Cup scores, and is pursuing a fintech license in ...

It appears that social media might be moving away from opaque systems that predict user interests, and instead are handing over the reins for users to decide. Platforms like Threads, […] ...

A new study suggests AI-generated junk content has become one of TikTok's defining features. Worse still, children and ...

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A new Kapwing report found that 59% of videos shown to new TikTok accounts are AI slop, roughly three times the rate found on ...

Instagram is rolling out “Your Algorithm” to the main feed, letting users see and adjust what the platform thinks they’re interested in. Mosseri credits TikTok with pioneering the recommendation model ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Interest in the manosphere has recently surged yet again, with the recent Louis Theroux documentary catapulting the term “manosphere” back to the forefront of our cultural psyche. The term has become ...

ByteDance’s drug discovery unit Anew Labs presented its first AI-designed therapy at a major immunology conference in Boston, showing a generative-AI-designed small molecule targeting IL-17, a protein ...

Noah Giansiracusa asks: How nutritious is your social media diet? Containing too much social media 'junk food,' he notes for Science News Explores, can have deleterious effects, and so individuals ...

This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on social media and how the views and experiences of teens vary across sites. This ...