How Social Media Abdicated Responsibility for the News

Facebook used to aggregate content in a “News Feed” and pay media companies to publish stories on its platform. But after years of complicity in disseminating Trumpian lies—about the 2016 ... Read More

The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social

Social media is, in many ways, becoming less social. The kinds of posts where people update friends and family about their lives have become harder to see over the years as the biggest sites have ... Read More

The New Era of Social Media Looks as Bad for Privacy as the Last One

The slow-motion implosion of Elon Musk’s X has given rise to a slew of competitors, where privacy invasions that ran rampant over the past decade still largely persist. Read More

Tuning out TV news might be behind the decline in media trust. (No, really!)

A new wide-ranging study finds that trust in news has fallen further in countries where television news use has declined, as well as in countries where more people are turning to social media for news ... Read More

The 'apology fatigue' of social media - BBC

Still, social media apologies may not be entirely pointless. Ingall believes these posts of contrition can serve as a teaching tool – she says it's important to realise that, despite the apology ... Read More

The Guardian to stop posting on X, calling it "a toxic media platform" - CBS News

The media outlet added that the U.S. presidential election campaign underscored its view that the social media platform is "toxic" and that its owner, Elon Musk, used it to shape political discourse. Read More

Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says.

David Greenfield, a psychologist and founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction in West Hartford, Conn., said the devices lure users with some powerful tactics. Read More

Social Media and News Fact Sheet

Overall, just over half of U.S. adults (54%) say they at least sometimes get news from social media, up slightly compared with the last few years. News consumption on social media. Facebook and ... Read More