Starting Wednesday, Australia will prohibit kids under 16 from using social platforms. For youth content creators, it means logging off or finding creative ways to post anyway.

In the battle for your attention, Instagram is betting that more control over the algorithm could keep you scrolling on Reels.

The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn, as US and UK laws have caused its traffic to plummet.

Rob Leathern and Rob Goldman, who both worked at Meta, are launching a new nonprofit that aims to bring transparency to an increasingly opaque, scam-filled social media ecosystem.

Singer Sophia James went viral for creating exclusive groups on TikTok as a “science experiment” to promote her music. She can’t believe it worked.

After five deadline extensions and several rounds of negotiations, President Trump signed an executive order to put TikTok’s US operations in the hands of Oracle and other American investors.

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Half of the country now requires age verification to watch porn or access “harmful” content. Digital rights advocates are pushing back against legislation they say will make the internet less safe.

The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.

The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has its own fingerprinting tester called Cover Your Tracks, and it puts the information in a slightly different way.

Under Elon Musk’s leadership, X has become the perfect platform to supercharge the spread of dangerous disinformation during breaking news events.