After a year in beta, its new Android app and website, Surf, go beyond simple news aggregation to incorporate content from social networking protocols like ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and good old Real ...

This new wave of AI short dramas is absurdly addictive. Understanding the psychology is the first step towards breaking the ...

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In a first for Europe, Meta's algorithm has been held to account for discrimination, showing how the law can force Big Tech's ...

Defamation, true threats, obscenity, child sex abuse material, direct incitements to violence — each of those forms of expression can be banned and punished because they are not encompassed within the ...

Through the program, which Meta calls the Creator Fast Track, creators can earn anywhere from $300 to $9,000—depending on the size of their audience—over a three-month period. All they need to do is ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — If you are on on Facebook, you may have seen a post that says you can use a trick to see more of what your friends post. These posts come around every few months ...

The Meta logo and logos of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads are screened on a mobile phone for illustration photo in Krakow, Poland on Jan. 25, 2025 (Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto via ...

A field experiment shows that turning on the algorithmic feed on the social-media platform X in 2023 shifted political opinions to the right, whereas turning it off had no effect on political ...

Have you ever tried to find inspiration for ads by scrolling your own Facebook feed? Then you know that most companies’ ads aren’t very compelling. Also, scrolling Facebook in this day and age is ...