Pope urges Catholics to swap social media for reflection as Lent begins
ROME, Feb 14 (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged Catholics to forgo worldly trappings and focus on essentials as he opened the season of Lent with...
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A TikTok Jesus promises divine blessings and many worldly comforts
The TikTok profile Daily Believer (@believerdaily) has 70 videos with computer-generated Jesuses looking directly at the viewer, beseeching them to stop scrolling and watch the...
Tech CEOs told ‘you have blood on your hands’ at US Senate child safety hearing
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) – U.S. senators on Wednesday grilled leaders of the biggest social media companies and said Congress must quickly pass legislation, as...
Fake online images of Taylor Swift alarm White House
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – The White House said on Friday it was alarmed by fake online images of the pop singer Taylor Swift and...
Social media companies made $11 billion in US ad revenue from minors, Harvard study finds
Social media companies collectively made over $11 billion in U.S. advertising revenue from minors last year, according to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School...
TikTok, Meta, X CEOs to testify at US Senate hearing in January
The chief executives of social media companies Meta (META.O), X, TikTok, Snap (SNAP.N) and Discord will testify on online child sexual exploitation at a Jan. 31 U.S. Senate...
Tech: Facebook gives users new way to see all their friends’ posts
Facebook is rolling out an update that enables its 2 billion daily users to more easily view their friends’ posts in chronological order. The new...
Trump’s Twitter alternative ‘Truth Social’ launches on Apple App Store
Donald Trump’s new social media platform, Truth Social, launched early Monday on Apple’s App Store, paving the way for a return to social media for...
Judge approves $650M Facebook privacy lawsuit settlement
A federal judge on Friday approved a $650 million settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly using photo face-tagging and other biometric data...