Social Media

Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

Meta-Owned Threads Overtakes X in Daily Mobile Usage
Meta-Owned Threads Overtakes X in Daily Mobile Usage
January 18, 2026  |  Social Commerce

Meta-owned social media platform Threads is reportedly surpassing X in terms of mobile usage. Threads now has more daily usage on mobile devices than Elon...

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Musk Says X Will Open Source Its New Algorithm
Musk Says X Will Open Source Its New Algorithm
January 11, 2026  |  Social Commerce

Elon Musk says his social media platform X will open its new algorithm to the public. The change, set to happen six days from now,...

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Twitter and Pinterest Vets Pitch New Social App Tangle
Twitter and Pinterest Vets Pitch New Social App Tangle
January 04, 2026  |  Social Commerce

Has social media been the source of a “terrible devastation” upon society? A pair of Silicon Valley veterans apparently think so, and have debuted an...

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TikTok Says New Joint Venture Will Enable Continued US Operations
TikTok Says New Joint Venture Will Enable Continued US Operations
December 18, 2025  |  Social Commerce

TikTok and parent company ByteDance have signed agreements with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture that will enable the app to continue operating in the United...

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Meta Agrees to Give EU Users More Personalized Ad Choice
Meta Agrees to Give EU Users More Personalized Ad Choice
December 08, 2025  |  Facebook / Meta

Meta has agreed to offer users in Europe more choice about seeing personalized ads. The European Commission (EC) announced that agreement Monday (Dec. 8), six months after fining the tech...

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European Commission Fines X $140M, Alleging Digital Services Act Violations
European Commission Fines X $140M, Alleging Digital Services Act Violations
December 05, 2025  |  Legal & Regulation

The European Commission fined social platform X 120 million euros (about $140 million), saying it breached the Digital Services Act’s transparency rules, according to a...

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Cloudflare Outage Darkens Vast Portions of the Web
Cloudflare Outage Darkens Vast Portions of the Web
November 18, 2025  |  Connected Economy

Cloudflare has resolved an outage that shut down multiple high-profile websites on Tuesday (Nov. 18). The internet infrastructure provider said in a 19:28 UTC update on...

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Pinterest’s ‘AI Everywhere’ Strategy Drives User, Search Growth
Pinterest’s ‘AI Everywhere’ Strategy Drives User, Search Growth
November 04, 2025  |  Earnings

In the Q3 earnings call Tuesday (Nov. 4), Pinterest execs told investors the company has transformed from a digital mood board into what CEO Bill...

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Social Media Overhaul Platforms to Separate AI Content
Social Media Overhaul Platforms to Separate AI Content
November 04, 2025  |  Artificial Intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence content now accounts for 57% of all online material, a shift that is forcing social media platforms to restructure their systems to...

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