From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s “Lanterns,” Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem.

The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered children.

Watching one frame of a video will count as a view.

Since Bumble’s launch in 2014, only women ‌could initiate conversations in heterosexual matches on the app

Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.

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Tennessee began a civil trial Monday, alleging Meta designed Instagram to be addictive for children and concealed its known impacts.

Jerome Aceti spent 18 years turning distribution into ownership — and started winding down at his peak.

Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus $3.99 a month....

Cook will remain the company's chief executive until Sept. 1.

X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier.

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Meta debuted its first major large language model, Muse Spark, spearheaded by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs.

New automatic translations and photo editing on X are powered by the companys flagship AI model.

More than 125,000 Bluesky users have blocked Attie in just a few days, sending a strong message from the user base.

As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era.

Instagram Reels can have up to 30 products linked

Many will assume that OpenAI’s Sora app represents a new era of social media. But that’s wrong—all it does is reanimate our current one.

Jury reaches a verdict in New Mexico trial in which the state's attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators.

Apple Maps may soon serve ads in top results when users search on terms like "restaurants."

Between pickup artists and juvenile pranksters, the wearable device is becoming associated with pests of all kinds.

Elites may not be as immune to this kind of algorithmic radicalization as they think.

PayPal may not be in talks to be acquired, sources have told Semafor, after a previous news report that Stripe was sniffing around.

X's new immersive video player is designed to offer a more mobile-friendly experience, optimized especially for portrait-oriented videos.

Paramount’s apparent plans mirror short-form, TikTok-esque pushes by Disney and Netflix....

Meta reports Q4 earnings, Spotify’s $11 billion payout and Scalable at SXSW.

Apple just had its best quarter ever without a fully functional AI product....

Meta said that the test impacts professional accounts and pages on Facebook.

X's new terms of service say that no one can use the Twitter name, trademarks, logos and more without written consent.

A fledgling social media platform has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself, contending that billionaire Elon Musk’s X Corp has aba...

Read Adam Mosseri’s internal memo announcing a full return to the office five days a week, fewer meetings, and fewer decks.

Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not illegally stifle competition in social networking, a judge found, a major win for the tech giant.

Christine Galvagna proposes an EU fund to support decentralized, public service focused social media networks to protect digital rights and democracy.

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The company intends to spend more on educational app technology, structure its product so it’s less focused on extracting payments, and pay more...