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FDA Warns Americans to Stop Cooking Chicken in NyQuil

By Frank Landymore

US Military Annoyed When Facebook and Twitter Removed Its PSYOP Bots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Africa’s Tallest Mountain Gets High Speed Internet So Tourists Can Post Selfies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Physicist Apologizes for Fooling Public Into Thinking a Picture of Chorizo Was a Star

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

RadioShack Is Tweeting About Drugs and Unusual Sexual Acts, for Some Reason

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There May Be a Secret Reason Sheryl Sandberg Is Leaving Facebook

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Health & Medicine

Relatable! Scientists Say You Likely Enter a “Dissociative State” While Scrolling Social Media

By Noor Al-Sibai

Twitter Agrees to Elon Musk Takeover

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Accidentally Posts Bikini Picture

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Artificial Intelligence

Welcome to “Robot Hell”! Meet the Deranged Genius Who Created an AI Version of @Dril

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump Reportedly Furious That Nobody’s Using His Glitchy Twitter Clone

By Tony Ho Tran

DARE, Which Apparently Still Exists, Is Furious at a TV Show for Dumb Reasons

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Science & Energy

Scientists Warn That Social Media Could Be a Threat to Civilization

By Jon Christian

John McAfee’s Instagram Posted Something After He Died

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Say There’s a Clear Link Between Facebook and Depression

By Victor Tangermann

Study: Social Media Turns Us Into Hungry Rats Basically

By Tony Ho Tran

Former Employee: We Made Facebook as Addictive as Cigarettes on Purpose

By Jon Christian

Expert: Online Disinfo Now Targeting COVID-19, Black Lives Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Health & Medicine

Study: Social Media Users More Likely to Be Misinformed About Vaccines

TikTok Waited Three Hours to Tell Cops About Livestreamed Suicide

By Kristin Houser

Researchers Find Major Security Flaws in Popular App TikTok

By Kristin Houser

Science & Energy

Australia Arrests Dozens for Starting Bushfires on Purpose

By Kristin Houser

ISIS Is Using TikTok to Spread Propaganda

By Victor Tangermann

Cyberstalker Locates Victim by Enhancing Reflection in Her Eye

By Kristin Houser

China Appears to Be Censoring Hong Kong Protests From TikTok

By Natalie Coleman

Instagram Keeps Accidentally Flagging Fish Photos as Offensive

By Kristin Houser

YouTube Influencers Are Mentally Collapsing From Stress

By Kristin Houser

Dealers Are Using Snapchat to Sell Illegal Guns

By Kristin Houser

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Say Mice Could Detect Deepfakes. Seriously.

By Kristin Houser

Leaked NYPD Documents Instruct Cops to Be Funny Online

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier Versions of FaceApp Were Incredibly Racist

By Kristin Houser

Facebook Is Finally Fighting Its Pseudoscience “Miracle Cure” Content Problem

By Kristin Houser

Someone Used a Gun to Try to Steal a Domain Name

By Kristin Houser

Sri Lanka Temporarily Bans Social Media Following Terror Attacks

By Kristin Houser

Scientists: Tech Is Giving Humanity a Shorter Attention Span

By Kristin Houser

Australia Proposes Bill to Stop “Weaponization” of Social Media

By Kristin Houser

Zuckerberg Said to Have “Panic Chute” for Escape From Facebook HQ

By Jon Christian

FTC Slams TikTok With Record Fine For Spying on Pre-Teens

By Dan Robitzski

For News, Americans Now Officially Prefer Social Media to Newspapers

By Dan Robitzski

Virtual Reality

Glimpse: Virtual Reality For The Masses Might Solve The Problems Social Media Started

Labelling Edited Selfies on Social Media Might Make Us Less Miserable

By Kristin Houser

Social Media Games Your Psychology. Ethical Design Could Change That.

By Jon Christian

Social Media Giants Need Regulation From a Government That’s Unsure How To Help

By Victor Tangermann

I Tried Apple’s Screen Time Tool. The Results Were Not Heartening.

By Victor Tangermann

Facial Recognition Tool That Tracks People Across Social Media Now Available to Hackers

By Kristin Houser

Governments Keep Trying To Shut Down Messaging Apps, But It Never Works The Way They Hope

By Victor Tangermann

Actually, Social Media Isn’t An Echo Chamber

By Victor Tangermann

Surprise! Quitting Facebook Could Be Bad for You.

By Kristin Houser

Post-Scandal, Facebook Isn’t The Only Social Media Site In A Downward Spiral

By Lou Del Bello

We’ve Seen What Bots Do to Democracy. Are We Adapting Fast Enough?

By Claudia Geib

Here’s Why That Recent Abuse of Facebook Data Matters

By Claudia Geib

Trump Should Mute People on Twitter Instead of Blocking Them, Says Federal Judge

By Chelsea Gohd

There Are Strict Rules About What Some Federal Employees Can Say on Social Media

By Claudia Geib

Facebook is Looking to Help You Find Your Next Job

By Patrick Caughill

Obama: Social Media Is “Shaping Our Culture in Powerful Ways”

By Claudia Geib

To Kick Bots off Social Media, Congress Might Have to Get Involved

Health & Medicine

Please Don’t Post Your Hand Dryer Science Experiment on the Internet

By Aylin Woodward

Experts Want Facebook to Take Down Its Messenger Kids App

By Kristin Houser

YouTube Cracks Down on Eligibility Requirements for Which Video Channels Can be Monetized

By Chelsea Gohd

Artificial Intelligence

Can Canada Use AI to Crack Suicide Trends?

By Chelsea Gohd

A Former Facebook VP Says Social Media Is Destroying Society. And He’s Right.

More Than 80% of Children Have an Online Presence by the Age of Two

By Claire Bessant

Artificial Intelligence

How the CIA is Using Artificial Intelligence to Collect Social Media Data

By Chelsea Gohd

Health & Medicine

Internet Addiction Is Ruining Lives. Here’s What We Can Do About It.