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Four school boards in Ontario, Canada have launched a $4.5 billion lawsuit against social media giants Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok for what they describe as negligently designed apps.

Lapse, a camera app that mimics the days of waiting for film to develop before showing snapshots to friends, raised an additional $30 million in funding, fueling the trend of stripped-down social media platforms.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city government filed a lawsuit against five social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube.

There is a lot of talk these days about social media use and its effects on children. It seems that states are proposing and passing laws restricting social media left and right, with California, Texas, and New York, among others, passing social media-related laws last year. Another state, Ohio, attempted to enact a strict law to keep children off of social media without parental consent, and a United States federal judge struck it down this week.

Adobe Express, an all-in-one design, photo, and video app, now has first-of-its-kind integration with the social media platform TikTok.

At a recent electronic music performance, the English duo Rob Brown and Sean Booth, who perform as Autechre, plunged Sydney’s City Recital Hall into darkness.

In what could be one of the most impactful changes to the algorithm, Instagram and Meta's answer to X, Threads, will no longer suggest political content to users who don't opt in.

TikTok and Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, are suing the European Union (EU) over a segment of the Digital Services Act that requires the companies to pay a fee to cover the cost of regulating them.

CEOs of the largest social media companies in the United States testified in front of Congress Wednesday before the lawmakers launched into questions of their own.

Social media has been a bit like the old Wild West; there are few regulations, and, as we are learning, the apps are fraught with potential danger. A pair of proposed California regulations attempt to protect minors, aiming to reduce the impact the platforms can have.

In a partnership with the Center for Open Science, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta revealed it will give data to researchers for a study.

New York City is taking a strong stance against social media and becomes the first city in the United States to designate it as a "public health hazard" and using imagery that compares it to smoking.

Meta announced Tuesday it will hide certain types of content from teen users on Facebook and Instagram, including content related to suicide and eating disorders.

A Colombo crime family "underboss" sentenced to prison this week for extortion and money laundering has said he doesn't regret the topless poolside photo that led to his arrest.

When Threads launched earlier this year, the app was available in the US and more than 100 other countries. But those in the European Union were left out of the fun. However, in a short and sweet post on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta's social media platform is now available to EU users.

Many teenagers in the U.S. can't tear themselves away from YouTube and TikTok, with over 15% saying they use the video-streaming apps “almost constantly,” according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.

Instagram revealed the top trends that Generation Z users will be driving on the photo app in 2024.

Smartphones are a staple of modern life and are changing how we see the world and show it to others. Almost 90% of Aussies own one, and we spend an average of 5.6 hours using them each day. Smartphones are also responsible for more than 90% of all the photographs made this year.

Montana made headlines earlier this year when it became the first state in the U.S. to ban TikTok. But now, a judge ruled the move unconstitutional.

Meta's apps Instagram and Facebook are growing faster than TikTok for the first time in a while.

TechCrunch describes the social media photo-sharing app Daylyy as the "anti-Instagram."

X, formerly known as Twitter, has begun testing a program that will see new users forking over $1 per year to use the service.

The social media landscape is one of constant catch-up and copying. Like Instagram and TikTok have long offered to users, people can now embed content from Snapchat on external websites.

New York officials are introducing two bills that would limit children’s access to “addictive” social media feeds and protect kids' mental health online by changing the way they are served content.

Sunday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that would hold social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, accountable for inaction regarding the spread of "child sex abuse materials."

Analog photography remains extremely compelling to many shooters, carving out a relatively small but passionate niche in the photo space. Alongside the resurgence in film photography in recent years, digital platforms have become increasingly crucial for photographers at large.

Residents of a picturesque town in Vermont have shut down roads in a bid to stop an influx of social media influencers coming to take photos -- despite photographers shooting the location for "decades."

Meta may be doing something that was once thought of as unthinkable: going ad-free -- for a price.

A new social media app called BeFake AI wants to take a legitimate approach to self-expression by using a phone’s cameras and photos to produce AI-assisted creative images.

Instagram will now let users add music to their photo carousels and collaborate with up to three individuals as co-authors on a post or Reel.

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta began removing news links on both sites in Canada this week.

As Meta continues to work on its generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including an AI image generator that Meta claims is unrivaled, Meta appears to have ramped up development on numerous generative AI features for its apps, including labels that will allow creators to mark images as "generated by Meta AI."

Couples increasingly want instant images from their wedding photographer so they can update their social media pages immediately after the ceremony.

A police force in India has made an AI-generated campaign advising parents not to be a "sharent" -- warning them not to post photos of their children online.

The Toronto Zoo is asking visitors not to show their phones to the gorillas. Turns out, too much screen time is bad for them, too.

Social media is an incredible tool for propagating ideas, allowing the potential for mass outreach to anyone with an Internet connection and something to say.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making news for more than Meta's popular new Twitter killer, Threads, the famous CEO posted a family portrait on Instagram that has caused a stir across social media.