The FBI on Monday warned of the increasing use of artificial intelligence to generate phony videos for use in sextortion schemes that attempt to harass minors and non-consulting adults or coerce them ...
Linda Yaccarino today became Twitter CEO - and she's got some hard work ahead of her. That's because Twitter's advertising revenue has declined 59% year on year, according to an internal presentation ...
A Maryland school district is suing Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok owner ByteDance for allegedly contributing to a "mental health crisis" among students. A lawsuit filed by the Howard County Public Sc...
Twitter was once a mainstay of academic research -- a way to take the pulse of the internet. But as new owner Elon Musk has attempted to monetize the service, researchers are struggling to replace a o...
In conjunction with a visit of CEO Sundar Pichai's visit to Stockholm yesterday, Google announced the launch of the second Google.org Social Innovation Fund on AI to "help social enterprises solve som...
A growing number of founders are leveraging the power of technology to help solve some of society's biggest problems, from developing self-monitoring digital health platforms that give patients more a...
A recent move by Google to populate the Internet with eight new top-level domains is prompting concerns that two of the additions could be a boon to online scammers who trick people into clicking on m...
Social media platforms are struggling to navigate a patchwork of US state laws that require them to verify users' ages and give parents more control over their children's accounts.States including Uta...
Meta has introduced the AI Sandbox, which will bring generative AI to its advertisers.Meta's three new generative AI features. Select Meta advertisers can now create text variations, ...
Content remains at the core of successful consumer interactions, engagements, experiences and conversions - especially in a new era of advanced generative AI technologies. Today, we are looking at a ...
TSB is urging consumers to remain wary of financial fraud on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, as scams through Meta's platforms are increasing at a worrying pace.The UK bank analysed its internal cus...
Since late 2022, Mastodon has increasingly become a popular alternative to Twitter for millions of users. This is partly because its CEO and founder, Eugen Rochko, has emphasized that the decentralize...
The ongoing collapse of Twitter has lots of folks wondering when an all-consuming new social app will rise up to take its place. This week, I want to talk about how things are going at one such upstar...
If you've been in SEO for a while or you've already done some research, you've probably come across claims that social signals are an SEO ranking factor. That's not true, at least according to multipl...
[photo1]More and more, people are turning to the search bar on social media platforms. Learn how to optimize your content for platform search and platform algorithms, as well as best practices for the...
Microsoft has just announced that as of April 25, 2023, Multi-platform Smart Campaigns will no longer support Twitter.The announcement. Microsoft Advertising users have started receiv...
Banning TikTok has been a hot topic in Congress lately. But if lawmakers go through with a ban on the social network owned by Chinese company ByteDance, the US could end up banning or restricting acce...
It's still very early in the AI search engine arms race, but it appears Microsoft has made gains on Google thanks to the new Bing. Microsoft has previously told us that one-third of preview users were...
Here are my (and the Ahrefs team's) top tools that help you work smarter--not harder.
Piecing together why so many people are willing to share misinformation online is a major focus among behavioral scientists. It's easy to think partisanship is driving it all--people will simply share...