There’s a new leader at billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s philanthropic firm. The Omidyar Network is announcing that its current president, Michele Jawando, will take over next month as CEO.

With zero coding skills, and in a disturbingly short time, I was able to assemble camera feeds from around the world into a ...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...

AppLovin (APP) shares moved higher by 2.5% on Thursday as a job posting discussing building a social media platform has gained attention. The job posting, listed here, advertises for a software ...

An X outage that began the morning of Monday, Feb. 16 has continued to fluctuate throughout the day, impacting, at its peak, more than 40,000 social media users. At 8:30 a.m. ET on Monday, more than ...

When Victoria Hinks opens up her daughter Alexandra's room, she is met with a room filled with drawings of their family, her dog, and colorful expressions of joy. "If you ask anyone to describe 'Owl', ...

Seven months ago, University of Virginia alumnus Omar Zeineddine and fourth-year student Karam Aboul Hosn told the world they were building a social media app centered around real-time, everyday ...

An expert witness in a case brought by a California woman against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, testified that the design features of its social media apps are addictive, ...

Russian authorities have begun restricting access to Telegram, one of the country’s most popular social media apps, as the government continues to push everyday Russians toward its own tightly ...

Neal Mohan at Made on YouTube 2024 (Photo Credit: Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images) YouTube is not a social media app, lawyers for the video streaming platform said in Tuesday opening arguments, kicking off ...

Annalee Schott used to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But online she was drawn into a dark world. The 18-year-old’s TikTok algorithm allegedly ...

Gizmo is a new social platform that blends TikTok-style feeds with AI-powered vibe coding, allowing users to create and share interactive mini apps without programming skills. While safety and ...