May 4, 2025 TikTok has been fined €530 million (USD $600 million) by the European Union for unlawfully transferring European user data to China, violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), the EU's more...
April 30, 2025 Elon Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has experienced a significant decline in its European user base, losing approximately 11 million users since August 2024, according to recent reports. This downturn coincides with increased more...
April 13, 2025 The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) antitrust trial against Meta Platforms Inc. commenced on April 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. This trial follows a nearly six-year investigation into whether Meta's acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and more...
April 6, 2025 President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending the deadline for TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to divest its U.S. operations by 75 days. This move delays the enforcement of the Protecting Americans from Foreign more...
September 18, 2024 A recent survey has uncovered a surprising trend among Gen Z adults: nearly half wish that popular social media platforms like TikTok and X had never been invented. This revelation comes from a nationally representative more...
September 3, 2024 If you have every heard someone say that they'd just had a conversation on their smart phone only to find that an advertisement, you may have thought that that this was simply coincidence. After all, more...
August 13, 2024 Elon Musk blamed a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for a 40-minute delay in his live-streamed interview with presidential candidate Donald Trump on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The interview, more...
July 30, 2024 Meta has agreed to pay a record $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas over the unauthorized use of biometric data from Facebook users, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced more...
June 17, 2024 Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has been accused of discrediting university researchers in Brazil who reported fraudulent ads on its platform. The allegations surfaced after Núcleo, a Brazil-based news organization, obtained government documents revealing more...
June 17, 2024 US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has called for smoking-style warning labels to be placed on social media platforms to address the mental health risks they pose to children. In an article for the New York more...
