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Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content, hate speech on the site in general or billionaire owner Elon Musk’s own tweets endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

More than thirty states are suing Meta, Facebook’s parent company, accusing the social media platform of contributing to the teen mental health crisis. NBC 7’s Jeanette Quezada reports on Oct. 31, 2023.

The Supreme Court is wrestling with whether public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts.

Influencers have been posting ’90s-inspired AI-generated yearbook photos using the Epik photo editing app.

Bed rotting is a self-care trend that spread on TikTok. The term means to spend basically the entire day or even weekend in bed, doing everything from napping and doom-scrolling to watching TV and eating.

A California man who says he was harassed after Elon Musk amplified posts on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that falsely placed the man at a confrontation involving far-right protesters sued the billionaire for defamation in a lawsuit filed Monday.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether state laws seeking to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution.

A Common Sense Media report finds about half of 11- to 17-year-olds get at least 237 notifications a day. Some get nearly 5,000 in 24 hours. What does that do to their brains?

A new social media application released in August allows users to edit their photos using artificial intelligence before posting.

TikTok said on Tuesday it will begin launching a new tool that will help creators label their AI-generated content.

The partnership was inspired by the viral TikTok trend which has been viewed more than 10 billion times.

A group of students who took part in the One Chip Challenge during their lunch at a Holliston, Massachusetts, middle school on Monday were left in “physical distress,” according to letters sent home from school officials. It’s the same social media challenge that’s part of the investigation into the death of a Worcester teenager earlier this month. The maker...

Paqui, maker of the One Chip Challenge, is removing the spicy chips from stores after the death of Worcester teen Harris Wolobah.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts, preventing the state from becoming the first to impose such a restriction.

Despite an initial explosion of signups and engagement numbers, Threads, Meta’s X competitor, is struggling to craft its own identity.

The hashtag #eggprank has more than 670.7 million views. But some commenters have expressed concern that parents might be hurting or humiliating children.

The 27-year-old man who police say shot and killed a California business owner over a Pride flag draped in her store appears to have had a yearslong history of posting disturbing — and often violent — anti-LGBTQ messages on social media. 

Country music fans have taken notice of the overnight success of Oliver Anthony’s viral hit “Rich Men North of Richmond.”

Thousands of migrants from the West African country of Mauritania have arrived in the U.S. in recent months, following a new route taking them to Nicaragua and up through the southern border.