Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

The US Surgeon General has called for a warning label on social media platforms, citing research that points to a link between social media use and poor mental health in adolescents. "The mental ...

Hashtags (a word, or string of words with no spaces, preceded by a pound sign) are used for search purposes. For instance, a National Geographic photographer might tag her post of migrating dolphins ...

The MrBeast brand is one of the biggest on YouTube, sprawling outwards to encapsulate ghost kitchens, chocolate bars, big challenges, an Amazon reality show, and massive philanthropic stunts. Jimmy ...

Australia is taking an unprecedented step to protect young people by implementing a sweeping social media ban for children under 16. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the move, citing serious ...

The Supreme Court is poised to decide whether a pair of state laws are allowed to reshape the ability of social media companies to control what does — and doesn’t — appear on their platforms. Last ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit seeking to limit the government’s ability to communicate with social media companies about their content moderation policies. By a vote of 6-3, the ...

“X,” the site formerly known as Twitter, has been bleeding users (and advertisers) since Elon Musk took over the site and made many unpopular changes. The slow migration has exploded into an exodus to ...

While it might look like a walk in the park to some, having a successful career as an influencer is more difficult than many people think—but being the offspring of someone famous makes it a lot ...

From December 10, young teenagers in Australia will be banned, under new legislation, from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok - one of the toughest online crackdowns in the ...

It isn’t surprising to see Collins exploring these themes and using this fictional world as a primer on how to recognize propaganda and persuasive marketing. Meditations on mass media, marketing, and ...