If you don't want other people to find you on social media, here's how to go about it: Including instructions for Instagram, Facebook, and X.

Meta owned social media platforms ends third-party fact-checking, adopting community notes as its replacement.

The campaign aims to raise $30 million to build an open-source social platform free from "billionaire control."

The Ministry of Interior has issued new directives to popular social media companies X (formerly Twitter) owned by Elon Musk and Meta-owned platforms Facebook and Instagram. In a statement on Thursday,

The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact-checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his allies.

The case, which has generated widespread attention after the Facebook post resulted in criticism online of the medics, concerns the death of a rickshaw puller, Mohammed Ismail. Hospital workers say th

Heat waves, flooding and fire conditions are becoming more common and catastrophic as the world warms. Extreme weather events often lead to a spike in social media attention to climate change. Social media posting peaks during a crisis but drops off quickly.

Despite their reservations, Republican and Democrat committee members largely united Wednesday to advance legislation banning social media use by Hoosiers who haven’t yet turned 16, unless they get parental permission.

Indonesia will impose interim child protection guidelines on social media companies while the government carves out a law to set a minimum age for users of the platforms, a senior communications ministry official said on Wednesday.

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With Meta embracing community notes and YouTube resisting fact-checks, social platforms are pivoting towards user-driven truth verification.

The new organization wants to build on the open-source, user-defined model of the increasingly popular platform Bluesky, in case it, too, comes under the control of a billionaire owner.