Teenagers understand social media algorithms but want more control, study finds

Teenagers want a greater voice in the design and governance of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, according to ...
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AI-powered social media can subtly manipulate opinion at scale

AI tools used to generate, edit or contextualize social media posts can introduce hidden biases that spread through online ...

Threads, Meta’s ‘Twitter Killer,’ Finds Its People

The social platform that Meta once positioned as a rival to Elon Musk’s X now has 500 million monthly users. It increasingly ...
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Download complete websites from the Wayback Machine for offline viewing.

Wayback-Archive is a Python tool that downloads archived websites from the Wayback Machine and reconstructs them for fully functional offline viewing. It preserves all assets -- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ...

Many Child Safety Features on Social Apps Don’t Work, Report Finds

Researchers found that teens can discover harmful content, connect with unknown adults and easily bypass time limits.

More than half of social media child safety features aren’t working as advertised, new research finds

Researchers at the Cybersafety Research Center found that more than half of social media child safety protections don’t work ...