Ever wonder why your social media feed seems to “read your mind?” One minute, you’re watching a video about travel, and suddenly, your feed is filled with flight deals and hotel recommendations. It’s ...
Last month, Instagram began rolling out a new set of controls that allowed users to personalize the topics recommended to them by the Reels algorithm. Now, Meta is making that feature available to all ...
Netflix would like you to know that Adolescence has been watched for more than 555 million hours this year, a number so large it feels almost impossible to quantify. (You don’t rack up a figure like ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kelley Cotter, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed ...
The purpose of the media is to teach the public how to think. This claim might offend the sensibilities of those who believe that America is a nation of independent minds. But no mind is independent, ...
Instagram has launched a major update for its Edits app. The app’s latest version adds pre-built templates, storyboards, advanced text customization options, and the ability to pull public Reels ...
If you’ve ever grabbed your phone “for just five minutes” and somehow found yourself still scrolling through TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts an hour later, you can relate. Many people assume ...
Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media. By Christine Chung Travelers visiting the United States ...
Some visitors to the United States may soon have to provide their social media history from the prior five years to enter the country, according to a new Trump administration proposal. The proposal, ...
Children across Australia woke up on Wednesday with no access to their social media accounts under a world-first ban designed to shelter those under 16 from addictive algorithms, online predators, and ...
Young people with fewer financial resources, especially boys, are the most exposed to advertising about how to make easy money. So confirms a pioneering study by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), which ...