Social media’s takeover of our lives has caused us to start articulating and sharing our own existence as if we were playing a role, with all of fiction’s resources, tricks and vices serving to distance us from authentic reality
The new stigma towards bisexuals has come from social media. He’s an imaginary character who deceives gay men with the possibility of a romantic relationship, when he is really only thinking about marrying his lifelong girlfriend
Pornhub, XVideos and Stripchat have now been classed as ‘very large online platforms’ subject to more stringent controls
The investigation will look into whether X failed to do enough to curb the spread of illegal content and whether measures to combat ‘information manipulation’
The tycoon’s descent into the pit of far-right hoaxes has been crystallized on social media. His identity crisis seems to have been marked by financial interests and personal issues
The Colombian president’s tweets and his Foreign Minister’s issues jeopardize the most positive aspect of his administration
Agencies and tech giants create AI-powered digital personalities to capitalize on the fame and power market
It poses new uncertainty for advertisers, who have fled X over concerns about hate speech appearing alongside their ads, and is the latest divisive public personality to get back their banned account
Palestinian journalists appeal to the world to share their work on social media because every picture tells a story
The University of Pennsylvania’s president said she should have gone further to condemn hate against Jewish students
He hates feminism and democracy and has dubbed himself Bronze Age Pervert. He moves the masses and is adored by Trump
An EU report has analyzed 31 cases of false content about sexual diversity, more than half of which are of Russian origin
The announcement comes two days after CEO Elon Musk said advertisers pulling out are engaging in ‘blackmail’ and, using a profanity, essentially told them to go away
The accounts were used to reshare posts from X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that were created by politicians, news outlets and others
The tech tycoon regrets the tweet he shared, but accuses companies of blackmail for suspending advertising
The billionaire and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toured the Kfar Azza kibbutz, a rural village that Hamas militants stormed on Oct. 7 in a deadly assault that launched the war
Billionaire owner Musk has faced accusations of tolerating antisemitic messages on the platform since purchasing it last year
A document filed with the SEC over a merger between Digital World Acquisition Corp and Trump Media & Technology Group also highlights the former president’s failed businesses
Selling personal information is a legal and lucrative business
Our generation is better prepared than that of our parents to face the challenges entailed by smartphones and social media and to talk to our children about the potential and risks of technology
The digital realm makes it harder to pretend that someone you used to love does not exist. Still, people try
The company was set to unveil a GPT-4 Turbo that can retrieve information about world and cultural events as recent as April 2023 and a tool to describe what’s in images to people who are blind
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’
The company said late Tuesday that it has started trying out the annual subscription method for new and unverified accounts
The changes in the businessman’s security and content moderation policies after the acquisition of Twitter have caused the platform to become a much less reliable source than before.
Google was the first big tech company to say it would impose new labels on deceptive AI-generated political advertisements that could fake a candidate’s voice or actions
