As countries including Canada move toward social media bans in an attempt to keep youths safe online, tech companies are in a ...

Users of X, Elon Musk-owned social network formerly known as Twitter, reported multiple problems accessing the website and app Friday evening. Error reports for X ...

For more than a decade, social media has operated under a simple economic logic: platforms capture value, while users generate it. The billions of posts, photos, comments, and videos that fill the ...

In the early 2000s, social media was a baby. Cut to now: Statista (2023) predicts there should be around six billion social media users worldwide by 2027. While such rapid growth makes it difficult ...

Much has been said about rises in mental health problems reported by younger people over the past 20 years. It is estimated that the prevalence of anxiety for 18-to-25-year-olds was about 8% in 2008, ...

X issues updates about its problems on the social media network itself, which we can't see right now, so it's unclear when the service will resume. Unlike many other brands, X doesn't run a dedicated ...

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Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has already been decided. Credit...Hokyoung Kim Supported by By David Streitfeld ...

Justin Pot is a freelance journalist who helps people get more out of technology. Idealist nerds have a long history of giving terribly confusing names to potentially revolutionary technology. So it ...