Social Media

Mark Zuckerberg has a solution for all the loneliness social media has created: AI friends. We need to hurtle forward, and the fancy new tech will fix all the problems of the bad old tech. Just trust him. Clare Morell’s new book, The Tech…

President Trump’s trade war has inspired a new TikTok trend of Chinese manufacturers encouraging shoppers to buy direct and pay less, highlighting American consumers’ desperation to avoid massive tariff-induced price increases while being…

U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., wants you to know that while “a lot of people talk a big game about supporting Ukraine,” he cares enough to take a taxpayer-funded trip there to make a series of potentially dangerous political blunders.…

A curio shop owner was arrested and charged for allegedly selling “genuine human remains” online, attempting to pass them off as “educational models.” What do you think? “We only use 10% of our bones anyway.” Ariel Bellemare, Coyote…

During his historic comeback campaign in 2024, President Trump vowed to close the book on a dark chapter in America’s constitutional history: the weaponization of America’s own government to silence, censor, and suppress the free speech of…

The U.S. government funded various online censorship tools, some of which went missing after President Donald Trump took office. Others, however, are still operating today — potentially limiting what Americans see online, especially…

With a sale deadline looming, tech company ByteDance was once more given additional time to offload TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban in the United States. Here’s all you need to know about the sale. Q: Who are the leading bidders…

X is not real life, but its tentacles slither into the increasingly online landscape that defines real life. It’s not X’s fault; it has merely become an incubator of a trend launched years ago by the 24-hour news cycle. Really, then, much…

With a president like Donald Trump, who would have thought a vice president could add any more entertainment value or personality to his administration? Yet J.D. Vance is doing that very thing. Last weekend, Vance made a noteworthy…

OTTAWA – With less than a month to go until the federal election, candidates for the Conservative Party of Canada have been shocked and dismayed to learn that the things they post and share on public-facing social media platforms are indeed…