Slashdot Items Tagged "social"

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Thursday April 18, 2024 @07:30PM Reddit Is Taking Over Google
Wednesday April 17, 2024 @05:14PM TikTok Starts Testing Its Instagram Competitor 'TikTok Notes'
Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:28PM President Biden Is Now Posting Into the Fediverse
Monday April 01, 2024 @08:48PM TikTok Is Bringing Its Dedicated STEM Feed To Europe
Friday March 29, 2024 @04:57PM LinkedIn Moves In On TikTok's Turf With Short-Form Videos
Wednesday March 27, 2024 @05:15PM TikTok Is Under Investigation By the FTC Over Data Practices
Tuesday March 26, 2024 @03:56PM Florida Braces For Lawsuits Over Law Banning Kids From Social Media
Monday March 25, 2024 @11:49PM Reddit May Need To Ramp Up Spending On Content Moderation, Analysts Say
Monday March 25, 2024 @04:52PM 'Federation Is the Future of Social Media'
Monday March 25, 2024 @12:09PM DeSantis Signs Bill Requiring Parental Consent For Kids Under 16 To Hold Social Media Accounts
Sunday March 24, 2024 @12:28PM Steve Wozniak Decries Tracking's Effect on Privacy, Calls Out 'Hypocrisy' of Only Banning TikTok
Friday March 22, 2024 @05:37PM Trump's Truth Social Is Going Public
Friday March 22, 2024 @04:07PM Users Shocked To Find Instagram Limits Political Content By Default
Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:24PM Threads Opens Beta To 'Fediverse Sharing'
Saturday March 16, 2024 @06:38PM Social Psychologist Urges 'End the Phone-Based Childhood Now'
Saturday March 16, 2024 @04:34PM Pornhub Disables Website In Texas After Age-Verification Lawsuit
Friday March 15, 2024 @08:49PM TikTok is Banned in China, Notes X User Community - Along With Most US Social Media
Friday March 15, 2024 @08:36PM EFF Opposes America's Proposed TikTok Ban
Friday March 15, 2024 @08:34PM What Happened to Other China-Owned Social Media Apps?
Friday March 15, 2024 @06:57PM FTC Launches Inquiry Into Reddit's AI Deals, Ahead of IPO
Friday March 15, 2024 @12:50PM Supreme Court Tosses Rulings on Public Officials' Social Media Blockings
Thursday March 14, 2024 @04:59PM Refund Fraud Schemes Promoted Online Are Costing Amazon and Other Retailers Billions
Sunday March 10, 2024 @07:52PM Canada's 'Online Harms' Bill Would Be an Assault On Free Speech, Civil Liberties Groups Say
Sunday March 10, 2024 @05:14PM Does Reddit Represent the Return of the Junk Stock IPO?
Thursday March 07, 2024 @06:13PM Reddit Will Now Use an AI Model To Fight Harassment
Thursday March 07, 2024 @03:32AM Bipartisan Bill Could Force ByteDance To Divest TikTok
Sunday March 03, 2024 @07:33PM How Will Reddit's IPO Change the Service?
Friday March 01, 2024 @10:47PM Threads' API Is Coming in June
Monday February 26, 2024 @08:17PM Canada To Compel Digital Platforms To Remove Harmful Content
Monday February 26, 2024 @12:37PM Supreme Court Hears Landmark Cases That Could Upend What We See on Social Media
Friday February 23, 2024 @07:38PM Florida Lawmakers Pass Ban On Social Media For Kids
Friday February 23, 2024 @03:26PM Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price
Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:39PM Reddit Files To Go Public
Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:33PM Bluesky Now Open To Federation
Wednesday February 21, 2024 @05:41PM Reddit To Offer Shares In IPO To 75,000 of Its Most Active Users
Tuesday February 20, 2024 @05:12PM EU Opens Formal Investigation Into TikTok Over Possible Online Content Breaches
Saturday February 17, 2024 @05:36PM Reddit Has Reportedly Signed Over Its Content to Train AI Models
Monday February 12, 2024 @09:09PM Threads Starts Testing Trending Topics Section
Friday February 09, 2024 @05:36PM Instagram and Threads Will Stop Recommending Political Content
Tuesday February 06, 2024 @08:49PM Bluesky Opens To the Public
Monday February 05, 2024 @06:03PM Meta Cuts Off Third-Party Access To Facebook Groups
Sunday February 04, 2024 @05:27PM Will Silicon Valley's Next House Member Rewrite a Key Internet Law?
Saturday February 03, 2024 @08:22PM Is AI Hastening the Demise of Quora?
Saturday February 03, 2024 @04:37PM The Atlantic Warns of a Rising 'Authoritarian Technocracy'
Saturday February 03, 2024 @03:28PM Threads is Now 'Booming', With 130 Million Active Users
Wednesday January 24, 2024 @08:48PM NYC First To Designate Social Media as Environmental Toxin
Tuesday January 23, 2024 @11:22AM We Need To Talk About Franklin Templeton
Monday January 22, 2024 @12:30PM 'You Are Not An Embassy'
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:10AM India Puts Tech Firms on Notice Over Deepfakes Inaction
Monday January 15, 2024 @08:47PM Bluesky Launches RSS Feeds
Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:48PM Why a School Principal Switched from Smartphones to Flip Phones
Friday January 12, 2024 @06:47PM Artifact, Personalized News App From Instagram Co-Founders, Is Shutting Down
Thursday January 11, 2024 @06:50PM X Announces Peer-To-Peer Payment Service Will Launch In 2024
Thursday January 11, 2024 @03:22PM Discord is Laying Off 17 Percent of Employees
Wednesday January 10, 2024 @10:46PM Facebook Deletes Social Fixer Community Page Without Explanation
Monday January 08, 2024 @02:08AM How AI-Generated Content Could Fuel a Migration From Social Media to Independent 'Authored' Content
Saturday January 06, 2024 @05:57PM Blaming Social Media, ACM Publication Argues Computing 'Has Blood On Its Hands'
Saturday January 06, 2024 @01:09AM Is LinkedIn Becoming the Hottest New Dating Site?
Wednesday January 03, 2024 @10:35AM Wickr Is Dead
Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:59PM Almost Half of British Teens Feel Addicted To Social Media, Study Says
Tuesday January 02, 2024 @12:47PM The Humble Emoji Has Infiltrated the Corporate World
Saturday December 30, 2023 @01:58AM Fewer People Are Posting on Social Media. 50% Could Leave Or Limit Interactions Within 2 Years
Friday December 29, 2023 @05:07PM Social Media Companies Made $11 Billion In US Ad Revenue From Minors, Study Finds
Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:22PM As Reddit CEO Defends Their Controversial API Decision, It Dominates Reddit's Own 'Recaps'
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @05:47PM The Rise and Fall of Usenet
Wednesday December 20, 2023 @09:15AM EU Targets Pornhub, XVideos, Stripchat Under New Content Rules
Monday December 18, 2023 @04:51PM Flipboard Is Pivoting To ActivityPub and the Fediverse
Saturday December 16, 2023 @02:47AM Threads Plans to Interoperate With Other Platforms in the Fediverse
Friday December 15, 2023 @05:40PM Twitch Rescinds Policy That Allowed 'Artistic Nudity'
Friday December 15, 2023 @05:33PM TikTok Requires Users To 'Forever Waive' Rights To Sue Over Past Harms
Thursday December 14, 2023 @03:11PM Threads Launches In the European Union
Monday December 11, 2023 @10:57PM More Than 15% of Teens Say They're On YouTube or TikTok 'Almost Constantly'
Saturday December 09, 2023 @08:35PM Harvard Accused of Bowing to Meta By Ousted Disinformation Scholar in Whistleblower Complaint
Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:47PM Republican Presidential Candidates Debate Anonymity on Social Media
Saturday December 09, 2023 @06:15AM Reactions Continue to Viral Video that Led to Calls for College Presidents to Resign
Friday December 08, 2023 @04:30PM Threads Adds Hashtags Ahead of EU Launch
Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:47AM Actors Recorded Videos for 'Vladimir.' It Turned Into Russian Propaganda.
Wednesday December 06, 2023 @09:55AM Twitch To Shut Down in Korea Over 'Prohibitively Expensive' Network Fees
Saturday December 02, 2023 @02:17AM Does TikTok Censor Content Critical of China? CNN Investigates
Saturday November 25, 2023 @12:52PM Cards Against Humanity's Black Friday Prank: Launching Its Own Social Media Site
Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:20PM In World's Largest Disinformation Campaign Online, China Is Harassing Americans
Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:47PM Social Media Giants Must Face Child Safety Lawsuits, Judge Rules
Monday November 13, 2023 @11:43AM Nepal To Ban TikTok
Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:29AM Is India Setting a 'Global Standard' for Online Censorship of Social Media?
Friday November 10, 2023 @11:49PM Former President Obama Warns 'Disruptive' AI May Require Rethinking Jobs and the Economy
Friday November 10, 2023 @09:27PM Five Republican Presidential Candidates Call for TikTok to Be Banned in America
Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:39PM Tumblr Is Reportedly On Life Support As Its Latest Owner Reassigns Staff
Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:36AM Omegle Shuts Down After 15 Years
Friday November 03, 2023 @10:07PM Will 'News Influencers' Replace Traditional Media?
Wednesday November 01, 2023 @05:09PM Instagram Head Says Threads API Is In the Works
Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:17AM LinkedIn Hits 1 Billion Users, Adds AI Features for Job Seekers
Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:17PM China Removes Anonymity of Bloggers' Accounts With More Than 500,000 Followers
Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:55AM Tens of Millions Now Work in the $250B 'Creator Economy'
Friday October 27, 2023 @11:13PM Will The Future See Interconnected Social Media Platforms?
Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:03PM Twitter Alternative Pebble, Previously Known As T2, Is Shutting Down
Sunday October 22, 2023 @03:33AM 'Threads' Downloads Nearly Doubled in September, as New Features Roll Out
Saturday October 21, 2023 @01:31PM Online 'Information War' in Africa Rages on Social Media
Friday October 20, 2023 @11:18PM What Happens When Major Online Platforms Lower Traffic to News Sites?
Friday October 20, 2023 @06:19PM Supreme Court Blocks Restrictions On Biden Administration Efforts To Get Platforms To Remove Social Media Posts
Friday October 20, 2023 @03:38AM Telegram is Still Leaking User IP Addresses To Contacts
Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:41PM Discord is Going To Give Out Warnings Instead of Permanent Bans
Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:06PM 'Apple Is Approaching Social On Vision Pro the Way Meta Should Have All Along'
Tuesday October 17, 2023 @02:19PM Reddit is Killing Blockchain-Based Community Points
Friday October 13, 2023 @11:24PM Third-party Reddit App Narwhal Hopes To Survive Reddit's App Purge With Subscriptions
Thursday October 12, 2023 @04:47PM New York Seeks To Limit Social Media's Grip On Children's Attention
Wednesday October 11, 2023 @11:28AM Utah Sues TikTok, Alleging It Lures Children Into Addictive and Destructive Social Media Habits
Monday October 09, 2023 @05:35PM Mastodon Actually Has 407K+ More Monthly Users Than It Thought
Monday October 09, 2023 @04:49PM California Governor Signs Ban On Social Media 'Aiding or Abetting' Child Abuse
Tuesday October 03, 2023 @03:44PM Meta To Lay Off Employees in Metaverse Silicon Unit Tomorrow
Tuesday October 03, 2023 @10:03AM Meta Plans To Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook
Sunday October 01, 2023 @12:52AM Social Media Dunks on an AI-Generated 'Batman' Comic Strip
Friday September 29, 2023 @10:38PM Republican Presidential Candidates Criticize TikTok as 'Dangerous', 'Controlled by Communist China'
Friday September 29, 2023 @04:14PM Kia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram For Their Cars Getting Stolen
Friday September 29, 2023 @04:10PM Supreme Court To Decide If State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate Constitution
Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:27PM Reddit Is Removing Ability To Opt Out of Ad Personalization Based On Your Activity
Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:46PM Indonesia To Ban Purchases On Social Media Like TikTok
Monday September 25, 2023 @01:19PM Reddit Will Start Paying You Real Money For Your Karma
Saturday September 23, 2023 @01:44PM WSJ Criticizes 'the Billionaire Keeping TikTok On Phones In the US'
Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:26PM WordPress Blogs Can Now Be Followed in the Fediverse, Including Mastodon
Friday September 15, 2023 @11:23AM TikTok Fined $370 Million Over Handling of Children's Data in Europe
Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:36AM Questions Raised about Quality of Reddit's New Moderators After Protest-Related Purges
Saturday September 09, 2023 @07:09PM YouTube Under No Obligation To Host Anti-Vaccine Advocate's Videos, Court Says
Thursday September 07, 2023 @04:38PM Chinese Social Media Campaigns Are Successfully Impersonating US Voters, Microsoft Warns
Sunday September 03, 2023 @03:06PM China Accused of 'Coordinated Disinformation Campaign' About Fukushima Waste Water in Multiple Countries
Saturday September 02, 2023 @06:17PM Ignored by Police, Two Women Took Down Their Cyber-Harasser Themselves
Saturday September 02, 2023 @01:36AM 'Starfield' Fan Banned From Subreddit For Narcing On Leaker To Cops
Friday September 01, 2023 @03:31AM Judge Blocks Arkansas Law Requiring Parental OK For Minors To Create Social Media Accounts
Saturday August 26, 2023 @01:06AM Threads is Now Available on the Web
Friday August 25, 2023 @02:07AM Reddit Launches Moderator Rewards Program Amid Sitewide Discontent
Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:16AM A Pennsylvania Court Says State Police Can't Hide How It Monitors Social Media
Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:29PM The Feds Asked TikTok For Lots of Domestic Spying Features
Monday August 21, 2023 @05:50PM Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn From Each Other, Research Shows
Friday August 18, 2023 @05:05PM Canada Demands Meta Lift News Ban To Allow Wildfire Info Sharing
Thursday August 17, 2023 @08:18PM Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment
Thursday August 17, 2023 @04:59PM Close To Half of American Adults Favor TikTok Ban, Poll Shows
Wednesday August 16, 2023 @06:19PM Snapchat's My AI Goes Rogue, Posts To Stories
Wednesday August 16, 2023 @02:23PM NYC Bans TikTok on City-Owned Devices
Monday August 14, 2023 @05:49PM Threads App Usage Plummets
Thursday August 10, 2023 @12:44PM YouTube is Deactivating Links in Shorts Videos To Combat Spam
Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:58AM Meta is Giving Up on Messenger's SMS Feature
Monday August 07, 2023 @05:18PM Raspberry Pis Found In Abandoned Spin Scooters In Seattle
Saturday August 05, 2023 @02:19PM Are the Reddit Protests Over?
Friday August 04, 2023 @09:26PM Twitch Streamer in Custody After Giveaway Clogs Downtown NYC with Crowd of Thousands
Friday August 04, 2023 @03:37PM TikTok's Algorithm Will Be Optional In Europe
Friday August 04, 2023 @10:03AM Threads User Count Falls To New Lows
Monday July 31, 2023 @08:53PM Facebook To Unmask Anonymous Dutch User Accused of Repeated Defamatory Posts
Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:34PM Reddit Users Heckle Search for New Mods, as Some Mods Move to Lemmy and Discord
Friday July 28, 2023 @05:44PM Most of the 100 Million People Who Signed Up For Threads Stopped Using It
Friday July 21, 2023 @05:35PM Telegram Adds Stories For Premium Subscribers
Friday July 21, 2023 @05:25PM No Apologies As Reddit Halfheartedly Tries To Repair Ties With Moderators
Friday July 21, 2023 @08:10AM Reddit Takes Over One of the Biggest Protesting Subreddits
Monday July 17, 2023 @08:03PM Threads Usage Drops By Half From Initial Surge
Friday July 14, 2023 @04:56PM One of Reddit's Biggest Communities Is Suggesting Users Move To Discord
Friday July 14, 2023 @02:00PM Reddit Removes Years of Chat and Message Archives From Users' Accounts
Friday July 14, 2023 @06:30AM Reddit is Getting Rid of Its Gold Awards System
Thursday July 13, 2023 @08:06PM Twitter Starts Sharing Ad Revenue With Verified Creators
Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:41PM Texas' TikTok Ban Hit With First Amendment Lawsuit
Thursday July 13, 2023 @01:22PM Ohio Plastic Surgeon Loses Medical License After TikTok Livestreams
Wednesday July 12, 2023 @08:39PM Meta Will Nuke Your Instagram Account If You Delete Threads Profile
Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:30PM TikTok Videos Are Coming To 3,000 Redbox Kiosks
Wednesday July 12, 2023 @06:04AM Why the Early Success of Threads May Crash Into Reality
Monday July 10, 2023 @04:55PM Instagram's Threads Surpasses 100 Million Users
Sunday July 09, 2023 @01:57PM As BotDefense Leaves 'Antagonistic' Reddit, Mods Fear Spam Overload
Friday July 07, 2023 @09:41PM Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic
Friday July 07, 2023 @11:58AM Cyberpunk 2077 Players Protest Reddit By Posting Nudes
Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:14PM Threads Passes 30 Million Sign-Ups In Less Than 24 Hours
Thursday July 06, 2023 @03:08PM Twitter Threatens To Sue Meta Over Threads
Wednesday July 05, 2023 @06:54PM Macron Accused of Authoritarianism After Threat To Cut Off Social Media During Riots
Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:35PM Meta Launches New Social Media App 'Threads' To Rival Twitter
Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:11PM Judge Rules White House Pressured Social Networks To 'Suppress Free Speech'
Monday July 03, 2023 @06:49PM AMAs Are the Latest Casualty In Reddit's API War
Monday July 03, 2023 @01:21PM Pornhub Blocks Access in Mississippi and Virginia Over Age Verification Laws
Monday July 03, 2023 @12:52PM Zuckerberg's Quest To Re-Enter China Faces Challenge: His Own Words
Friday June 30, 2023 @08:53PM Reddit Users Are Saying Goodbye To Their Favorite Apps With Tributes and Memes
Friday June 30, 2023 @06:05AM UK Tightens Online Safety Bill Again as It Nears Final Approval
Friday June 30, 2023 @02:15AM Social Media Apps Will Have To Shield Children From Dangerous Stunts
Friday June 30, 2023 @02:10AM Police Need a Wiretap To Eavesdrop On Your Facebook Posts, Court Rules
Wednesday June 28, 2023 @11:25PM Reddit is Telling Protesting Mods Their Communities 'Will Not' Stay Private
Wednesday June 28, 2023 @02:49PM Minecraft's Devs Exit its 7 Million-Strong Subreddit After Reddit's Ham-Fisted Crackdown on Protest
Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:33PM Decentralized Social Networking App Damus To Be Removed From App Store
Tuesday June 27, 2023 @06:06AM Google Execs Admit Users Are 'Not Quite Happy' With Search Experience After Reddit Blackouts
Monday June 26, 2023 @06:33PM Reddit Mods Are Calling For An 'Affordable Return' For Third-Party Apps
Monday June 26, 2023 @04:22PM Twitter Hacker Who Turned Celebrity Accounts Into Crypto Shills Gets Prison Sentence
Saturday June 24, 2023 @08:58PM Thousands of Subreddits Remain Dark as Reddit Protests Approach Third Week
Saturday June 24, 2023 @12:06PM Russian Coup Aided by Telegram, VPNs as Government Blocks Google News
Friday June 23, 2023 @09:30PM Social App IRL, Which Raised $200 Million, Shuts Down After CEO Misconduct Probe
Friday June 23, 2023 @12:53PM Reddit Sales Growth Slowdown Preceded Fight Over New API Fees
Friday June 23, 2023 @10:36AM Facebook To End News Access in Canada Over Incoming Law on Paying Publishers
Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:03PM Reddit Ousted Mods After Subreddits Filled With Porn To Protest API Pricing Scheme
Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:55PM Some Subreddits Are Now Filled With Porn To Protest Reddit
Monday June 19, 2023 @09:32AM Hackers Threaten To Leak 80GB of Confidential Data Stolen From Reddit
Sunday June 18, 2023 @05:42PM Gen Xers and Older Millennials Say They'd Prefer to Live in an Era Before the Internet
Sunday June 18, 2023 @01:44AM Is Reddit Dying?
Friday June 16, 2023 @10:11PM Reddit Fight 'Enters News Phase', as Moderators Vow to Pressure Advertisers, CNN Reports
Friday June 16, 2023 @11:26AM Reddit Says It Won't Force Subreddits Back Open
Thursday June 15, 2023 @06:52PM Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit 'Was Never Designed To Support Third-Party Apps'
Thursday June 15, 2023 @12:34AM Texas Bans Kids From Social Media Without Parental Consent
Tuesday June 13, 2023 @05:17PM Reddit Communities With Millions of Followers Plan To Extend the Blackout Indefinitely
Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:42PM Reddit CEO Tells Employees That Subreddit Blackout 'Will Pass'
Monday June 12, 2023 @11:53AM Reddit is Crashing Because of the Growing Subreddit Blackout