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The Pixel 8 Pro can add and remove image elements, raising questions about their authenticity

New research has cast doubt on the benefits of digital detoxes, finding that both positive and negative affect fell after a week of abstinence

Microsoft unveiled its own election year initiatives on Tuesday, including a tool that will allow campaigns to insert a digital watermark into their ads

Arturo Béjar testified hoping to shed light on how Meta executives, including Zuckerberg, knew about the harms Instagram was causing but chose not to make changes to address them

Culture shock is defined as the set of emotions and reactions that someone experiences when they come into contact with a culture different from their own. Recently, videos of emotional reactions to experiencing different countries have become a popular trend on social media

Do these images fascinate or cause rejection? This new visual trend seeks to show the rawest, most visceral reality

The former employee believes that the lawsuit filed against Meta by the attorneys general of 41 states will forever change the relationship between children and social networks

Users on desktop browsers can pay about 10 euros ($10.50) a month while iOS or Android users will pay roughly 13 euros

Posts of women in their underwear are 54% more likely to show up in feeds; posts of men with bare torsos, 28% more likely. This has repercussions on what content creators’ posts look like

Lawsuits were filed on Tuesday in 41 states, including one joint suit by 33 AGs, accusing the owner of Instagram and Facebook of ‘taking advantage of children’s pain.’ It is a step forward in the initiative to demand responsibility from the hitherto untouchable social media platforms

After years of trying to make cakes that are both perfect and beautiful, the fashion for ‘ugly cakes’ is challenging careful aesthetics and opting for kitschy and grotesque decorations. The tackier, the better

The lawsuit filed in federal court in California also claims that Meta routinely collects data on children under 13 without their parents’ consent, in violation of federal law

The latest idea among self-help gurus and apologists for classical masculinity is to run away from everything and disconnect for a while. However, this impulse isn’t really new: it’s an ancient phenomenon, one that’s recurrent in literature

The essayist examines the rise of compulsive talkers in his new book ‘STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World’

In the exploration of the possibilities beyond corporeality, algorithms homogenize taste and the technological gaze standardizes faces

When a smaller restaurant unexpectedly goes viral on TikTok or other social media, the sudden demand can be overwhelming. Owners have to adapt on the fly

A third of Argentine voters are under the age of 29. They get the bulk of their information from social media and online videos, where the extreme-right has taken over the spaces with self-managed groups

At the courtyard of his company’s headquarters in California, Zuckerberg painted a near-future where people interact with hologram versions of their friends or coworkers and with AI bots built to assist them

Social networks have increasingly become a tool to organize and demonstrate, but so much fervor might be blurring the significance of the mobilizations

Social media users, particularly on TikTok, have created a new lexicon to describe the everyday

The Instagram star known for his parodies and sexual freedom takes on his first leading film role in ‘Rotting in the Sun’, where he plays the most captivating and irritating person he knows: himself

The short life of trends, fueled by social media, has changed the way we consume

The option offered by the social media platform – in which only select followers can see a story – is a way for many users to share risque material and controversial opinions

The investigation found that the sign-up process for teen users resulted in settings that made their accounts public by default, allowing anyone to view and comment on their videos

The world’s most-used search engine now blurs images that it classifies as explicit and has made it easier to remove sensitive photos published without permission