If social media for kids is so bad, should we be allowed to post kids’ photos online?

“Sharenting” – when parents share their children’s lives online – entered the dictionary a few years ago. Awareness of ...

Teens still on social media warned that their day will come

The prime minister declared victory during a formal address in Sydney, heralding the ban as one of Australia’s greatest ever ...
Morning Overview on MSN

New tool mines social media to predict disease hotspots

Public health officials have long struggled to see outbreaks coming before hospitals fill up. Now a new generation of machine learning tools is quietly scanning social media chatter in real time, ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source

For years, social media and video apps weren’t quite able to overtake good old television as Americans’ most-used source for news. That’s finally changed, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for ...
The New York Times

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do? Credit...Derek Abella Supported by By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...
The Verge

ICE is building a social media panopticon

The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. is a news writer who ...
Truthout

ICE Just Spent Millions on a Social Media Surveillance AI Program

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you ...
Wired

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation. United States immigration authorities are moving to ...
The Record

Workday hit by social engineering data breach targeting its CRM platform

Workday, the cloud-based software company providing human resources systems, announced on Friday that some customer information was obtained in a social engineering attack. The company — a constituent ...
Reuters

From AI chatbots to social media: Data presentation gets a little more complicated

August 11, 2025 - Previous articles in this series have explored identification, preservation, collection, review and production of novel data sources, but I would be remiss if I left out the last, ...
Brennan Center for Justice

The Government’s Growing Trove of Social Media Data

Reviewing individuals’ social media to conduct ideological vetting has been a defining initiative of President Trump’s second term. As part of that effort, the administration has proposed expanding ...
CNET

Meta AI: Everything to Know About the Social Media Giant's AI Tools

The new Meta AI app, the Ray-Ban glasses, live translation and more. Here's what you need to know about Meta's artificial intelligence plays. Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging ...