Tumblr users were left scrambling on Wednesday after dozens of accounts were banned in the same afternoon by an automated system. Numerous users contacted The Verge about the incident, claiming that the wave of bans disproportionately seemed to impact accounts run by users who identify as trans women, many of whom were given no specific […]
Pinterest’s chief compares social media to tobacco and alcohol, saying children need similar protections.
A well-known privacy warning hoax lives on within social media platforms. It’s eerily similar to reasons climate change conspiracy theories linger.
Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April but was never announced. The timing tells its own story. There is…
A new global study from the World Happiness Report 2026 links heavy use of platforms like Instagram and TikTo to lower wellbeing.
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X went down again for thousands of users — here’s what happened during its latest outage.
Tumblr has overhauled its reblogging feature to add new options for interacting with chained posts, and it hasn’t gone down well with many of the platform’s users. The update announced by Tumblr on Monday enables users to like, reblog, and reply to any post nestled within a reblog chain, with subsequent reblogs having their own […]
eYou a new European social media platform designed to combat online misinformation and rebuild trust in digital conversations, has secured €300,000 in pre-seed funding from Fil Rouge Capital, ahead o…
We are not divided by accident; we are distracted on purpose. The antidote to that manipulation is to reconnect with what makes us human, often through something as simple as play. Spend five minutes scrolling, and you can feel the machinery of social …
We are not divided by accident; we are distracted on purpose. The antidote to that manipulation is to reconnect with what makes us human, often through something as simple as play. Spend five minutes scrolling, and you can feel the machinery of social …