When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix ...

If you have ever played Roblox, you know how wild and unpredictable the platform can get. Now, Roblox is using that same unpredictability as a reason to overhaul how it moderates content. The platform ...

The official Meta corporate logo features prominently at MWC 2026, (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) A little more than a year after ditching third-party fact ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Elena, a 38-year-old UX designer in Austin, showed me her screen time report last March. Fourteen hours. Not her ...

Every election cycle, Washington convinces itself that this will be the moment voters finally come home. Republicans think frustrated Americans will sprint back to the GOP once Democrats take a stance ...

TikTok has officially closed its long-anticipated deal with the U.S., aiming to address government concerns with data security and content moderation. But for many creators, the closure does little to ...

In 2025, Google is removing reviews at unprecedented rates – and it is not accidental. Our industry analysis of 60,000 Google Business Profiles shows that deletions are being driven by a mix of: ...

TL;DR: Microsoft ended Windows 10 support, prompting users to upgrade to Windows 11, which demands higher hardware and a Microsoft Account with internet access. CyberCPU Tech demonstrated ways to ...

New York is mandating that major social media apps disclose the volume of their hate speech and misinformation. On Thursday, Oct. 2, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the start of a ...

Anonymity and amplification have transformed hateful whispers into viral shouts. Social media platforms claim that their algorithms can filter out harmful speech, yet studies reveal that their ...