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Facebook and Instagram Service Restored After Users Report Outages, Meta Says
Users reported widespread issues with the platforms from around 10 a.m. Eastern to about noon, according...
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Tarte Island: Bora Bora Influencer Campaign Met With Online Backlash
As part of a promotional campaign, the beauty brand Tarte flew 30 social media influencers on...
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Forced to Change: Tech Giants Bow to Global Onslaught of Rules
For years, Apple, Google, Meta and others operated unfettered. But new laws and regulations have finally...
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DeSantis Vetoes Florida Social Media Ban for Kids Under 16
The statute, passed by the Florida Legislature last week, would have required sites like TikTok and...
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Want to Feel Bad? Ask TikTok How Old You Look.
A new trend has people asking to be roasted by commenters.
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Supreme Court Seems Wary of State Laws Regulating Social Media Platforms
The tech industry argues that laws in Florida and Texas, prompted by conservative complaints about censorship,...
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What to Know About the Supreme Court Case on Free Speech on Social Media
Both Florida and Texas passed laws regulating how social media companies moderate speech online. The laws,...
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A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men
Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The...
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Florida Passes Sweeping Bill to Keep Young People Off Social Media
The measure would bar networks like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram from giving accounts to children under...
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Reddit Files to Go Public, in First Social Media IPO in Years
The message board site, founded in 2005, detailed its financial performance in a filing. It is...
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Five Takeaways From The Times’s Investigation Into Child Influencers
Mothers are running Instagram accounts for underage girls aspiring to stardom. Many encounter a dark underworld...
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Instagram’s Uneasy Rise as a News Site
In this year’s presidential election, more people are turning to Instagram for news, even as the...
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Chinese Influence Campaign Pushes Disunity Before U.S. Election, Study Says
A long-running network of accounts, known as Spamouflage, is using A.I.-generated images to amplify negative narratives...
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Terrorists Are Paying for Check Marks on X, Report Says
The report shows that X has accepted payments for subscriptions from entities barred from doing business...
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Vision Pro Goggles are not Safe While Driving a Tesla, U.S. Says
Videos, many of them stunts or jokes, of people wearing Apple’s new virtual reality headset while...
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Snap Shares Plummet After Q4 Earnings Report
The Snapchat parent company’s revenue for the fourth quarter was up from a year earlier, but...
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Fake and Explicit Images of Taylor Swift Started on 4chan, Study Says
The people on 4chan who created the images of Ms. Swift thought of it as a...
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How A.I. Is Remodeling the Fantasy Home
Amid an intractable real estate crisis, fake luxury houses offer a delusion of one’s own.
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He’s Lost His Marriage, His Followers and His Lamborghini
Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, was once the most popular cryptocurrency YouTuber in the world....
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How X Is Trying to Win Over Influencers
Linda Yaccarino, the chief executive of the platform formerly known as Twitter, is relying on her...
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Meta Reports Profits More Than Tripled and Issues Its First Dividend
The company’s quarterly revenue rose 25% as its costs fell after layoffs last year.
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TikTok and Universal Music Group: What’s Next for Users and Artists?
Universal Music Group, the biggest of the three major conglomerates, pulled songs by Taylor Swift, Drake...
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Elon Musk’s $50 Billion Tesla Pay Was Struck Down. What Happens Next?
The company’s board will now decide whether to appeal the decision, change where Tesla is incorporated...
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Is TikTok Over?
The app once offered seemingly endless chances to be charmed by music, dances, personalities and products....