Social Media

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    UK Riots Highlight Social Media’s Role in Fueling Real-Life Violence

    The recent anti-immigrant riots in the United Kingdom serve as a stark reminder of how unchecked misinformation on social media can translate into real-world violence and harm. The unrest, which has seen rioters attacking...
  • Twitter to Charge Monthly Fee for Verification

    As Twitter changes hands, policies change as well. As of last Friday, social platform Twitter is officially the property of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Musk has wasted no time in beginning his...
  • Elon Musk Ready to Buy Twitter Again

    Musk appears to be backing down from his legal threats. For the last several months, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been waging a legal battle with social platform Twitter. Musk, who originally signed a...
  • TikTok Releases Effect House Suite

    The video app now has a companion suite for AR development. Last year, social media platform TikTok announced that they were building their own suite of AR development tools for user usage. This development...
  • Twitter Tests Out Downvote Feature

    Users can downvote content they find offensive or irrelevant. Since last year, Twitter has been quietly experimenting with a new feature: downvotes. The feature was only made available to a few select users using...
  • Underwhelming Revenue Tanks Facebook Stock

    Reports of stalled growth have sent Meta reeling. For the fourth quarter, Facebook released its earnings under its new branding, Meta, for the very first time. However, this change was dwarfed by another major...