Social Media

TikTok, an app best known for dancing videos with 1 billion users worldwide, has also become a shopping phenomenon. National chains, hoping to get TikTok’s mostly young users into its stores, are setting up TikTok sections, reminiscent of "As Seen On TV" stores that sold products hawked on infomercia'ls.

A mysterious social media app appears to be luring people out of $4.99 a week to access the app while claiming that Donald Trump is on the platform.

The family of a slain journalist is asking the Federal Trade Commission to take action against Facebook for failing to remove online footage of her shooting death.

Former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen said Monday that she plans to brief the embattled social media giant’s Oversight Board in the coming days regarding her findings on harm caused by the company’s platforms.

Facebook, in the aftermath of damning testimony that its platforms harm children, will be introducing several features including prompting teens to take a break using its photo sharing app Instagram.

Facebook has several ideas in mind for how to better serve teens and protect them from known harms of social media, after a former employee disclosed documents showing that the company had been aware of how a significant percentage of young users face negative effects from using Instagram, which Facebook owns.

Forbes has released its 40th annual list of the 400 wealthiest people across the world and the majority are Americans.

Facebook acknowledged that some users were unable to access its platforms on Friday afternoon, days after an outage knocked the social media company’s services offline for several hours.

New York congressional candidate Desi Cuellar (R) discusses why Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is so popular and his campaign platform.

Jason Miller reacts to Facebook's downfall and the latest Time Magazine cover which spotlights the company's reckoning.

Twitter announced that it is testing out a new feature that warns users when a conversation might become "intense."

Snapchat said Thursday it is ramping up efforts to identify and remove drug dealers from its platform, days after federal officials warned that counterfeit pills laced with deadly fentanyl were widely available for sale on social media apps.

Facebook has faced mounting pressure from Congressional lawmakers due to a series of scandals regarding its business practices in recent years, but the negative publicity hasn’t prevented the social media giant from generating massive revenue.

For many parents, revelations this week from whistleblower Frances Haugen showing internal Facebook studies of the harms of Instagram for teenagers only intensified concerns about the popular photo-sharing app.