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There is a particular kind of video that has plagued my timeline for the last eighteen months. It could best be described as AI slop, but it’s not quite AI slop. A human created it and often these ...

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Today, a group of former Twitter users who are fed up by the platform’s decline under billionaire control, are launching a new campaign to transform social media into a public good, free from ...

Across the internet, young progressive internet users are embracing their inner MSNBC moms and proudly “libbing out." "Libbed out so hard at the Kamala rally tonight I’m feeling cautiously optimistic ...

Are we living through the dawn of permanent, personalized surveillance? Kylie Jenner is the face of Meta’s new AI smart glasses and suddenly, influencers are declaring a “hot surveillance summer,” ...

Today, a new Pew Research Center survey was released that found that nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults (56%) support banning anyone under the age of 16 from using social media sites aka total and complete ...

Everyone is celebrating the ruling against Meta and Google in the landmark “social media addiction” trial, but they shouldn’t be. In this latest episode of my Free Speech Friday series, journalist Kat ...