Social Media

Food bloggers and social media users have made Costco Wholesale's near-four-pound lemon meringue cheesecake go viral on TikTok and other platforms ahead of the retailer's earnings call.

Fast food and retail workers have recorded videos of themselves on TikTok claiming they are redeeming reward points with receipts that have been left behind by customers.

Facebook parent Meta will sell Giphy Inc. to Shutterstock for $53 million, well below the $400 million it paid for the platform in 2020 after U.K. regulators blocked the acquisition.

An image believed to be generated by AI showed a fake explosion at the Pentagon, sending the U.S. stock market into a brief nosedive Monday.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called for immediate action from policymakers, tech companies, parents and youths in the face of concerns about the impact of social media.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a major advisory warning of the "profound risk" of social media platforms like Instagram on young people.

Yelp is the target of an activist investor who says the company should merge with Angie's List or explore other options because its falling behind and has the wrong CEO.

Social media users have tested a Costco gift card hack that promises to give non-members an opportunity to make purchases, but customers and employees say there are some limits.

The popular social media app TikTok has sued Montana after the state banned the platform due to concerns over its parent company ByteDance's ties to China.

Reports of Meta Platforms' Instagram making a new app with similarities to Twitter drew commentary from Twitter's next CEO, Linda Yaccarino, over the weekend.

Meta acknowledged Instagram was experiencing an outage on Sunday evening, saying it was working to get things back up as quickly as possible.

Instagram has a new app with similarities to Twitter in the pipeline, according to a Bloomberg report. The earliest its rollout could reportedly happen is around the end of June.

An Idaho woman shared a video to her TikTok page after she found dozens of live beta fish in a dumpster behind a PetSmart. The company responds to the incident that has now gone viral.

Starbucks is updating machines in select stores and, as a result, stirring up debate over the type of ice being used. Customers chimed in on the update with opposing thoughts.

The former heads of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank all blamed social media for fueling panic that led to bank runs on their institutions.

A Maryland public school system is taking legal action against Meta, Byte Dance, Snap Inc., and Google alleging negligence as young adults amid a worsening mental health crisis.