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Trump administration removes TikTok ban on government phones, so employees are now free to doomscroll once again
The US government has lifted the ban on TikTok being installed on government devices.
New Mexico judge calls Meta a 'public nuisance' that's a polluting factory
In the second phase of the landmark New Mexico case, the judge says Facebook and Instagram are major polluters.
Jimothy is in Roku City! The inside story of how the viral raccoon climbed inside the streaming platform
Jimothy Raccoon, the squat, viral Seattle-based mammal, is now immortalized inside Roku City. Here's how that happened
MySpace returns—again. No surprise; I'm shocked it's not the first all-AI social platform
Myspace's owners promise a revival, but with myriad questions about the relaunch swirling, we can reach only one likely and unfortunate conclusion.
TikTok says AI-generated spam ‘crowds out original creators’
TikTok is launching a new in-app hub to help you spot AI-generated content as it cracks down on AI slop.
The UK government wants a midnight social media curfew for ages 16 and 17
On top of the complete ban on social media for under-16s, older teens will have restrictions put on their apps.
Do you reach for your phone as soon as you wake up? I spoke to psychologists to find out why doing so is ‘really not good’ for our brains
Ever wondered why you reach for your phone in the morning? I spoke to two psychology experts to get to the bottom of the morning scroll.
Careless People made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write
Reading Careless People helped me understand how Facebook’s internal culture may have allowed Mark Zuckerberg’s strange metaverse obsession to become Meta’s defining idea.
