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Why YouTube is hiding dislikes on videos

By Charlotte Hu

Facebook might rebrand as a ‘metaverse’ company. What does that even mean?

By Charlotte Hu

Facebook has an explanation for its massive Monday outage

By Charlotte Hu

What we know about why Facebook went down

By Charlotte Hu

25 best sites to buy Instagram followers (real followers)

By Thomas Moore/ReviewsXP

Facebook archived more than a billion user faces. Now it’s deleting them.

By Charlotte Hu

Your social media ‘fitspo’ is not a good influence

By Erin Blakemore

A look inside TikTok’s seemingly all-knowing algorithm

By Charlotte Hu

Instagram now lets you manage ‘sensitive content.’ Here’s how to use it.

By Charlotte Hu

The Facebook whistleblower’s Congressional hearing was a ‘big tobacco moment’ for tech

By Colleen Hagerty

This app is helping Californians stay on top of wildfire risks

By Colleen Hagerty

Facebook changes its name as it pushes toward a digital reality future

By Charlotte Hu

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Cryptocurrency

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested and charged with fraud

By Andrew Paul

Your questions about FTX’s meltdown and crypto’s bad year, answered

By Harry Guinness

Georgia man pleads guilty to stealing over $3 billion in Bitcoin

By Andrew Paul

Bitcoin’s steep environmental costs go beyond its hunger for energy

By Miyo McGinn

Best VPNs for crypto trading in 2023

By Steven T. Wright

Why Bitcoin won’t go green any time soon

By Harry Guinness

Ethereum finally completed ‘The Merge’

By Andrew Paul

Crypto scammers duped YouTube audiences with fake Apple Event ‘livecast’

By Andrew Paul

‘The Merge’ is happening. Here’s what that means for those in crypto.

By Harry Guinness

Latest Social Media Stories

The real reason people share so much fake news on social media

By Harry Guinness

/ Jan 25, 2023

The button that will put your Instagram feed in chronological order

By John Kennedy

/ Jan 24, 2023

7 ways to clean up your Facebook News Feed

By David Nield

/ Jan 21, 2023

Facebook and Instagram might revamp their nudity policies

By Harry Guinness

/ Jan 20, 2023

Instantly edit Facebook posts and other social media mistakes

By David Nield

/ Jan 19, 2023

How to delete one photo from an Instagram carousel (and get it back if you change your mind)

By John Kennedy

/ Jan 17, 2023

Meta sues data-scraping firm for selling user data to LAPD

By Andrew Paul

/ Jan 13, 2023

Where to find your TikTok watch history and other recently viewed videos

By John Kennedy

/ Jan 12, 2023

Instagram’s new update promises to make the platform suck a little less

By Harry Guinness

/ Jan 11, 2023

Seattle schools sue social media companies over students’ worsening mental health

By Andrew Paul

/ Jan 9, 2023

EU fines Meta for forcing users to accept personalized ads

By Harry Guinness

/ Jan 7, 2023

Hackers could be selling your Twitter data for the lowball price of $2

By Andrew Paul

/ Jan 6, 2023

Reset your digital life by deleting all your social media accounts

By David Nield

/ Dec 29, 2022

Meta will pay $725 million for a single Cambridge Analytica privacy settlement

By Andrew Paul

/ Dec 23, 2022

TikTok to tell users the ‘why’ behind ‘For You’

By Harry Guinness

/ Dec 21, 2022

Meta is open sourcing its automated content moderation tool

By Harry Guinness

/ Dec 19, 2022

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