Reddit OpenAI deal highlights demand for the social-media platform’s data Reddit already has a longstanding partnership with Google, and more deals may be in the pipeline, says Deutsche Bank. 05/17/2024 - 10:21 am | View Link
AI-generated images are running rampant on social media. What are X, TikTok and Meta doing to control them? Hundreds of celebrities descended on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City earlier this month for a chance to be photographed at the 2024 Met Gala, one of the year’s biggest ... 05/17/2024 - 7:45 am | View Link
Social media use linked to higher risk of vaping, smoking Kids and young adults who use social media for seven or more hours per day have double the risk of taking up vaping or smoking or both, new research shows. 05/17/2024 - 5:12 am | View Link
The links between social media, influencers, and consumerism: How to be more intentional with what you’re buying Gen Z has the highest social media shopping rate across generations. While the way we as a society consume isn’t anything to gawk at or look down upon, there are some inherent dangers with recent ... 05/17/2024 - 5:00 am | View Link
Anxiety-free social media? Maven thinks it has a formula for it Maven is a new social network that launched earlier this year but is just starting to catch on. The platform ditches likes, follower counts, and algorithms that push attention-getting or provocative ... 05/16/2024 - 9:27 pm | View Link
The history and evolution of social media explained Social media refers to websites or applications that support content sharing, user interaction and the exchange of messages within a collaborative framework. The emphasis here on sharable content and social interaction is key. While many platforms support uploading content, social media enables greater engagement and collaboration between users. 05/16/2024 - 2:22 pm | View Website
Social Media: Definition, Importance, Top Websites & Apps Social media is digital technology that allows the sharing of ideas and information, including text and visuals, through virtual networks and communities. Social media typically... 05/16/2024 - 11:01 am | View Website
New tool empowers users to fight online misinformation The researchers built a social media platform called Trustnet, which enabled users to assess content accuracy and specify trusted users whose assessments they want to see. But in the real world, few people would likely migrate to a new social media platform, especially when they already have friends and followers on other platforms. 05/16/2024 - 10:54 am | View Website
Social media harms teens’ mental health, mounting evidence shows. What now? Two-thirds of teens report using TikTok, and some 60 percent of teens report using Instagram or Snapchat, a 2022 survey found. (Only 30 percent said they used Facebook.) Another survey showed that... 05/16/2024 - 8:31 am | View Website
5 Technologies Taking Social Media Towards Its Next Evolution Set Technology incorporation makes social media accessible, safe, and real-time in addition to making the sector operate seamlessly with users’ experience through the mode of automation, integration with other social media applications, and ecommerce. 05/16/2024 - 8:24 am | View Website
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."