Vice President JD Vance warned Sunday that some of the hostages killed while held by Hamas may never be returned to their families. "The reality is that some of the hostages may never get back, but I ...

Experts warn that while leaving social media cedes ground to disinformation, staying demands ethical compromises and strategic resilience. Panelists at the Our Media conference, organized by the South ...

Footage of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey warning social media users about what they become while scrolling resurfaced this week. His speech took place at the Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024, where he ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kelley Cotter, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) President Donald Trump announced on Sept.

We are continuing our look at the rise in political violence and divide by putting a lens on the role of social media. Associate professor Kenneth Joseph is part of the department of computer science ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 19, 2025, a preliminary agreement for the sale of a majority stake in TikTok from ...

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo called on billionaire Elon Musk and other tech leaders to tweak social media algorithms to help turn down the temperature of political discourse online. “Businesses make ...

Social media algorithms are pushing unsolicited pornographic content into children’s feeds, according to a report by the Children’s Commissioner. The data was collected prior to the implementation of ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...