Internet and websites

Spending many hours daily looking at screens feels like a foregone conclusion. The new challenge is paring down what fills them.

Swifties say they’re leaving X over Elon Musk’s support of Donald Trump—and the rhetoric that has erupted on the platform following Trump’s win.

Generative AI and new rules targeting tech giants are giving Ecosia and Qwant fuel to challenge Google and Microsoft and develop a web index for Europe.

Pinterest and Threads seem convinced I’m in my sixties or going through menopause. Spend enough time in the bizarro worlds of these feeds, and you can start to believe anything.

Reality Defender, a startup focused on AI detection, has developed a tool to verify human participants in video calls and catch fraudsters using AI deepfakes for scams.

Launched in 2017, Google Lens processes 20 billion visual searches a month. Now it will work with video and voice, too.

Billionaire founder of Telegram accused of failing to co-operate with law enforcement requests for lawful interception.

Ofcom has issued a warning reminding social media firms of their upcoming online safety obligations, after misinformation about the Southport stabbings sparked racist riots throughout the UK

Newly announced measures by the search giant aim to make AI-generated, or otherwise spoofed explicit content, more difficult to discover.

Google got away with various practices to avoid scrutiny from regulators, but has been found guilty of acting in an anti-competitive way in the US.

The BBC speaks to social media moderators, whose job it is to find and remove distressing and illegal content.

Lauren Greenfield, director of the docuseries "Social Studies," says we have to have empathy for teens growing up online. “It's not fair to ask them to self-regulate when the apps have been designed to be addictive.”

After Telegram founder Pavel Durov’s arrest in France, the platform has made several changes that seemingly make it friendlier to authorities.

In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.

As the baby pygmy hippo has gone mega-viral, the Thai zoo where she was born is hustling to trademark her and keep her safe.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has reportedly been detained in France over the messaging app’s alleged failure to adequately moderate illegal content. His arrest sparked backlash and left some associates asking, what now?

The social media company, already fighting for its existence in the US, now has to contend with a potentially expensive penalty stemming from its policies toward users under 13.

Far-right protesters are trying to share violent rhetoric on social media. For the first time, Telegram is blocking them—while X is giving them a platform.