After Elon Musk bought Twitter (now rebranded X) in 2022, disaffected users began to seek alternatives. Alongside Meta’s Threads and the open-source…
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In late 2024, more than 20 years after the birth of Facebook, the impact of social media on our lives…
In an era where digital devices are everywhere, the term “screen time” has become a buzzphrase in discussions about technology’s…
The Australian government is developing legislation that will ban children under 16 from social media. There has been a huge public debate about whether…
Remember Threads? Meta’s overly ambitious retort to Twitter X? No? Well, it won’t be picking up many more users once…
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…