Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment

Interactive social media site Status announced Tuesday $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding, with investors ...

OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act

OpenAI, which is currently facing a raft of lawsuits over alleged safety lapses in ChatGPT, has endorsed the Kids Online ...
CNET

Kids, Social Media and Safety: Why a Years-Long Battle Has No End in Sight

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...
Newsweek

Our 14-Year-Old Was Secretly Using Social Media. Then Our Worst Nightmare Came True

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. We did everything we thought responsible parents should do to protect ...
Reuters

Australian social media ban marred by weak platform checks, tech providers say

SYDNEY, April 22 (Reuters) - Problems enforcing Australia's teen social media ban reflect social media platforms' weak deployment of tools available to run age checks rather than the limits of the ...
TechCrunch

Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit

Legacy social media sites have been designed to keep us hooked to our devices, eyes glued endlessly to retina-frying feeds of memes and dumb videos in order to create more engaged platforms for ...
Reuters

Social media platforms need to stop never-ending scrolling, UK's Starmer says

LONDON, April 13 (Reuters) - Social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok need to take action to stop young users wasting hours mindlessly scrolling never-ending videos, British Prime Minister ...
techtimes

How Social Media Algorithms Work: Simple Tips to Boost Feed Visibility Fast

Social media platforms use complex algorithms to decide what content appears on each user's feed. These systems are designed to filter massive amounts of posts and prioritize the ones most likely to ...
The Washington Post

Higher social media use linked to lower support for democracy, poll shows

Americans who spend at least five hours a day on social media are more likely to feel heard, but also more open to political violence and less supportive of democracy, according to a major new poll ...
Newsweek

How Substack Became the Hottest Social Media Platform

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. While TikTok and Instagram reels make headlines, Substack has been ...
AOL

5 simple tech tips to take back control of your social media

Social media platforms collect more data than most people realize. They track what you click, who you interact with and even where you go. Over time, that information builds a detailed profile of your ...