Facebook not allowed to use public data for targeted ads, court opinion says

EU data protection rules don't allow the company to use personal data for an unlimited period of time, the Advocate General said. Read More

EU probes Apple, Google, Meta under new digital law which could lead to big fines

BRUSSELS - The European Union on March 25 hit Apple ... of legal problems in the EU over its data processing, including a €1.2 billion fine in 2023 for data privacy breaches. Read More

Opinion: Banning TikTok won't solve social media's foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problems

When President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, 2024, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok's China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the ... Read More

Hire factcheckers to fight election fake news, EU tells tech firms

Parliamentary elections thought vulnerable to fake news will test social media firms and bloc’s new DSA laws Social media firms including TikTok, X, Facebook ... of 24 EU languages amid fears ... Read More

Wall Street debut of Trump’s Truth Social network could net him stock worth billions on paper

NEW YORK (AP) — The Wall Street debut of Donald Trump’s Truth Social network could give him stock worth billions of dollars ... towering over the roughly 10% gain for the S&P 500 index. Read More

Social Networking

The term "social network" refers both to a person's connections to other people in the real world and to a platform that supports online communication, such as Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. Read More

The $40 Billion Fund That’s Gambling With Europe’s Climate Goal

a €40 billion ($43 billion) investment vehicle at the core of Europe’s plans to overhaul its economy to be zero-carbon by the middle of the century. It’s also part of the EU’s counter to ... Read More

Social Psychology News

Mar. 15, 2024 — Scientists tested several hypotheses on the drivers of social aging in free-living Assamese macaques in Thailand. The researchers collected data on the social behavior of females ... Read More

Bed-blocking fines could hit elderly

New fines to reduce the problem of ... "The combination of reduced NHS and social services capacity and new financial incentives could see the chronically ill and older patients being forced ... Read More

The Top 10 Social Media Sites & Platforms

And social media users have grown to trust and rely on their preferred social networks for everything from real-time news ... $114.45 billion in revenue in 2022. In recent years, Facebook has ... Read More

Banning TikTok won’t solve social media’s foreign influence, teen harm and data privacy problems

When President Joe Biden signed a US$95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, 2024, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the ... Read More