The ruling says exemptions in the law nullified the state's intent for imposing the restrictions, and the law also didn't adequately define which platforms they would apply to. read more >
Social computing studies how social media platforms are used by terrorist groups and governments, in what could be considered a global battlefield for the control of minds. read more >
Hip-hop, now 50 years old, has had a powerful impact on business. read more >
The tech company worked with the Trust Project, a nonprofit consortium of news organizations, to create advertisements directing internet users to a list of eight "trust indicators" that can be used to assess a website's credibility. read more >
Experts say the viral image had telltale signs of an AI-generated forgery, and its popularity underscores the everyday chaos these now increasingly sophisticated and easy-to-access programs can inflict. read more >
Tech regulation is gathering momentum on Capitol Hill as concerns skyrocket about China's ownership of TikTok and as parents navigating a post-pandemic mental health crisis have grown increasingly worried about what their children are seeing online. read more >
Notably absent from this year's festival in Austin were many of the larger social media companies, which usually speak on panels and host brand activations. read more >
The grant from the National Science Foundation will help develop novel big data mining algorithms. read more >
The proposal goes back to the Senate, which approved an earlier version of the bill, for one more vote before it can head to Sanders' desk. read more >
Operators of the News Movement hope to succeed despite journalism being littered with years of unsuccessful attempts to entice people in their 20s to become news consumers. read more >
"TikTok is a wolf in sheep's clothing," one of the lawsuits says. read more >
Find the right balance of business and whimsiness and social media opens the the NIL revenue stream. read more >
Bill 396, the Social Media Safety Act, would compel social media companies to use a third-party firm to verify ages via a driver’s license or other form of identification. read more >
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments next month over the extent to which federal law protects the tech industry from such claims when social media algorithms push potentially harmful content. read more >
The Justice Department said the defendants showcased their "extravagant lifestyles" to fool others into thinking they were skilled stock traders. read more >
While platforms like Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube say they've expanded their work to detect and stop harmful claims that could suppress the vote or even lead to violent confrontations, a review of some of the sites shows they're still playing catch-up with 2020. read more >
In the cases the court agreed to hear, relatives of people killed in terrorist attacks in France and Turkey had sued Google, Twitter, and Facebook. read more >
An estimated 71% of this age group gets news daily from social media. The social media diet is becoming more varied; Facebook doesn't dominate the way it used to. read more >
The Content Studio is inviting brands to “think like online creators by innovating social media strategies with engaging content and trending videos.” read more >
Mimi San Pedro, the chief strategy officer for the Venture Center in Little Rock, says the creation of the Woman Achieve mentorship program was a long time coming. read more >
