Social media

Australia’s prime minister said the legislation is for parents who are “worried sick” like him about the harm of social media.

4B is a feminist movement that is believed to have originated in South Korea which calls for women to not date, marry, have sex with, or have children with men.

Elon Musk is the most-followed user on X, and election misinformation he spreads on the platform oftentimes far surpasses accurate information spread by government officials.

TikTok “tradwife” Gretchen Adler is weighing in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch which parodied her and other “tradwives” as it spoofed a TikTok “for you page.”

Meta’s head of global safety said “sextortion” has become more common across social media platforms, including Instagram.

Martha Stewart exclusively told E! News that while she doesn’t love the term “Trad Wife,” she is a big fan of some of the viral content creators who have been dubbed with the title.

The rumor mill about immigrants attacking household pets got its start in thinly sourced anecdotes shared at government meetings and on social media.

Fentanyl overdoses have become a leading cause of death for minors in the last five years or so — and social media, where tainted, fake prescription drugs can be obtained with just a few clicks, is part of the problem.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is promising stepped-up efforts to fight criminality on the messaging app.

New Mexico’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the company behind Snapchat. He says that the site’s design and policies foster the sharing of child sexual abuse material and facilitate child sexual exploitation.

A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block social media platform X nationwide.

Young girls are buying up anti-aging products they see promoted on social media, with harmful effects for their skin — and their mental health.

A U.S. appeals court revived on Tuesday a lawsuit filed by the mother of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who died attempting a viral challenge she allegedly saw on TikTok that dared people to choke themselves until they lost consciousness.

The viral phrase “very demure, very mindful” has been filed for trademark by a Washington State man named Jefferson Bates.

Paris marked the first edition of the Team USA Creators program, where creators, many of them Olympians, came to Paris to help tell the story of the Olympics on social media.

The 65-year-old Olympian and swimming commentator pulled back the curtain on his relatable social media presence.

Meta said Wednesday that it has taken down about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria running sexual extortion scams and has removed thousands of Facebook groups and pages that were trying to organize, recruit and train new scammers.

The last time Congress passed a law to protect children on the internet was in 1998 — before Facebook, before the iPhone and long before today’s oldest teenagers were born.

The United States signed a memorandum with several of the world’s biggest social media companies on Thursday aimed at preventing the use of their platforms for the distribution of synthetic drugs.

Move over hot girl summer, it’s short king season.