by Peter Suciu | Apr 28, 2025 | Technology, Trending
Bluesky continues to evolve into Twitter 2.0, and last week announced in a blog post that it will begin to roll out a verification system, one that doesn’t require a subscription model. “Trust is everything. Social media has connected us in powerful ways,...
by Peter Suciu | Apr 28, 2025 | Business, Technology
Misinformation is increasingly common on social media, and users are quick to help it spread. Such was the case on Monday, when a single post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, caused major moves on the stock market. It came after a bogus...
by Peter Suciu | Apr 28, 2025 | Technology
In January, Facebook parent Meta removed third-party fact-checkers and instead adopted a Community Notes format that would allow users to police the platform. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg suggested at the time that the fact checkers had become too politically...
by Peter Suciu | Apr 28, 2025 | Technology
It has long been said that religion and politics shouldn’t be discussed in polite company, but that isn’t a problem on social media, where discussions are rarely polite. If anything, the debate becomes unnecessarily heated, and common ground is nowhere to...
by Peter Suciu | Apr 28, 2025 | Technology, Trends, Video
From instruction videos, short student films, vintage and new music videos, and clips from movies and TV – it is all in one place: YouTube. What started a “dinner table idea” back in 2005 is now the largest video-sharing platform in the world. With more...
by Peter Suciu | Apr 28, 2025 | Technology
The line between satire and disinformation continues to blur on social media, where the context of a post made in jest can be misunderstood to be a factual news report. When the source of the original “faux news” is a Russian Telegram channel, the line...
