Tag: social media
Meta & Google found liable in landmark cases for knowingly causing...
Over the course of the trials, documents revealed that tech companies were well aware of the addictive properties of their social media products and exploited these properties to increase their profits.
Extreme weather events are the new frontline of online climate denial—report
Analyzing Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube, it found that three quarters of the most popular misleading posts focused on extreme weather events.
I’m a brand new activist—here’s what got me to join others...
It’s impossible to truly understand an issue until it becomes personal in some way. That’s exactly what happened to me.
Resistance to Trump is everywhere—inside the first 50 days of mass...
From boycotts to mass noncompliance to street demonstrations, the response to the Trump administration’s policies has consisted of an impressive range of nonviolent tactics.
Appeals court Upholding TikTok ban is a grim sign for press...
A U.S. District Court of Appeals panel, with two Republican-appointed judges and one picked by a Democrat, has upheld a law forcing the sale of TikTok because of its alleged Chinese government control.
Trump media quietly enters deal with a Republican donor who could...
Does the deal with energy magnate James E. Davison present conflicts of interest?
EU investigates Meta for addictive effect social media has on children
The European Commission—the executive arm of the EU—opened “formal proceedings” against Meta last week to see if the company violated the Digital Services Act’s (DSA) protections for minors.
Oil companies use paid news media partnerships to protect ‘social license...
Content created by the in-house advertising studios of major media is coming under growing scrutiny.
New bill that would effectively ban TikTok in US passes House
The bill would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless the social media platform's parent company, ByteDance, divests its holdings.
How mindsets drive commentary—whether reform, revolution, reaction or resistance to change
Cheap shots only cheapen what still in the main offers an effective, worldwide online opportunity.
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Bank regulator clears a Trump family crypto venture to open a national trust bank
The OCC's own decision letter records four commenters raising conflict-of-interest objections involving the president and his family, and the agency placing most of those questions outside the scope of its review.
The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...
Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
‘My religion’s better than yours’ – so there!
To fix all truths on realms invisible Strikes skeptics as inadmissible.
Court filings describe a Homeland Security operation that infiltrated Minnesota unions and churches
Agents subpoenaed years of bank and payment records from the Sunrise Movement and two national unions, none of which has been charged with a crime.
“Moderates” Support Extreme Injustice
The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.