Remember Threads? Meta’s overly ambitious retort to Twitter X? No? Well, it won’t be picking up many more users once…
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It’s now almost two years since Elon Musk concluded his takeover of Twitter (now called X) on 27 October 2022. Since then,…
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a shift towards the use of social media platforms in teaching. The South African Department of Basic…
The United States’ most senior public health official, surgeon-general Vivek Murthy, believes social media platforms should come with warning labels. The…
For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation. So it…
You know we’ve reached peak interest in artificial intelligence (AI) when Oprah Winfrey hosts a television special about it. AI is…
YouTube Premium’s R72/m price isn’t looking so bad after all, huh? The writing has been on the wall (and YouTube’s…
Instagram has announced third-party augmented reality (AR) filters will no longer be available on its apps as of January 2025. This…
As many countries debate the merits of banning kids under 14 from social media, Meta has announced a significant “reimagining” of…
When Pavel Durov arrived in France on his private jet last Saturday, he was greeted by police who promptly arrested…