#social media

Ofcom has written to social media companies urging them to tackle illegal hate content during the World Cup, citing past abuse targeting Black and minority ethnic players.

Instagram has rolled out the ability to rearrange your grid, a long-requested feature that lets you move posts around regardless of when they were made.

AI-generated influencers are becoming harder to distinguish from human creators, complicating moderation and authenticity across major platforms.

Kalshi moved to remove sponsored influencer posts tied to conspiracy-laden reactions to the Los Angeles mayoral count, highlighting growing pressure on prediction platforms.

As hiring slows and AI filters more applications, young job seekers are using LinkedIn, TikTok, and other social platforms to stand out in an increasingly crowded market.

A growing wave of AI-generated vloggers is recasting history as first-person social media content, drawing large audiences and raising new questions about how the past is taught and consumed.

A federal judge said errors and fictitious quotations in a brief bore the hallmarks of generative AI misuse, pushing AI reliability back into focus inside the legal system.

Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have settled a closely watched lawsuit brought by a Kentucky school district, leaving Meta to continue facing a case seen as a test for more than 1,000 similar claims from public schools.

X is rolling out a new History tab on iOS that combines bookmarks with records of long videos, articles, and likes, broadening the app’s internal memory of what users read and watch.

As headlines spread about a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship, conspiracy networks and wellness influencers moved quickly to recycle familiar pandemic-era misinformation.

A new wave of online misinformation is pushing baseless claims that attempts on Donald Trump's life were staged, with influencers on both the right and the left amplifying the narrative.

Meta says it is adding AI systems that analyze text, images, and videos for age-related signals as it tries to identify and remove underage accounts.

After Spirit Airlines halted operations, canceled flights, and let go of 17,000 employees, a TikTok call to buy and relaunch the carrier drew tens of thousands of non-binding pledges in a matter of hours.

After a $375 million loss, Meta is heading into a new trial phase where New Mexico will seek court-ordered changes to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The early social network has been relaunched as an iOS app that removes feeds, ads, algorithms, and even remote friend requests.

Snap has launched AI Sponsored Snaps, placing branded chatbots directly inside Snapchat’s Chat tab and pushing conversational advertising deeper into consumer messaging.

As recent ceasefire announcements spread across headlines, online audiences processed the surrounding conflicts through jokes, remix formats, and dark humor, revealing how platform incentives turn crisis into endlessly

Meta is preparing a major redesign for Threads on the web, adding direct messages and new feed-switching tools after nearly a year of feature lag behind the mobile app.

Snap says it is eliminating about 16 percent of its workforce and closing hundreds of open roles as CEO Evan Spiegel argues that AI can help teams move faster and reduce repetitive work.

X says it is suspending automated and inauthentic accounts at high speed, but users report the purge is also catching human-run burner accounts used to privately follow adult creators.