I'm not giving in to the vibes yet.

How open protocols and agentic development could lead to a whole new generation of social applications.

Fifty-seven years ago, a computer at UCLA tried to send the word "LOGIN" to a machine at Stanford. It managed two letters ...

Flipboard has launched "social websites" - an open-source initiative designed to give creators and publishers a new way to connect with users on decentralized platforms.

Civil juries in Los Angeles County and Santa Fe, N.M., recently found that social media companies were responsible for harms their products caused to children. The bellwether cases could now open the ...

The U.K. is rolling out a trial social media ban for hundreds of teenagers. The trial will see restrictions ranging from curfews to time caps on certain popular apps like Instagram, TikTok, and ...

"There's debate around a number of themes that seem to be political," says one industry expert about why the Ryan Gosling-led film has seen a sky-high level of social media engagement. By Ryan ...

Social media platforms are “not safe” for teens and are harming them at a “massive scale”, a new report has suggested. It said the current “algorithmic” design of platforms such as Facebook, Instagram ...

A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found YouTube and Meta liable in a landmark trial over whether social media companies should be held accountable for fueling a mental health crisis among children.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, praised Palestinian terrorists on different social media accounts as a young adult. According to a review of Duwaji’s social media posts by The ...

Children who spend more than three hours a day on social media are more likely to develop mental health problems, including depression and anxiety, according to new research. Experts suggest the ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The poet and critic Randall Jarrell once said that a poet is someone who “manages ...