The pervasive influence of social media on public opinion and decision-making has driven the development of sophisticated techniques to shape narratives and amplify specific agendas. This paper ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The conversation taking place around two U.S. senators’ verified social media accounts remained vulnerable to manipulation through artificially inflated shares and likes from fake ...

“In video demos and an overview document provided to people interested in using a prototype of the app that have been viewed by 404 Media, Impact shows how it can send push notifications to groups of ...

An Arizona legislative committee created to investigate how government officials try to influence social media companies, and how social media and tech companies influence others, spent the majority ...

Influencers use oppression, manipulation and weaponization to police Black women on social media, according to new research ...

Brookings Institute studied 78 prosecuted cases of sextortion for its report. — -- The most common form of sextortion is "social media manipulation" according to a Brookings Institute Report ...

Minnesota has joined the growing number of states seeking to increase oversight of social media companies. The Minnesota Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act, which took effect on July 1, will ...

A Discord server run by the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have been locked down after a right-wing media outlet accused its members of manipulating social media ...

More than 200 school districts have now sued the major social media companies over the youth mental health crisis. What started as a single lawsuit filed by the Seattle public schools one year ago has ...

Brands have sought to partner with influential bloggers for nearly as long as there have been blogs, with ads, sponsored posts, and more. Lately, however, a new relationship between brands and popular ...

AI and social media have become a new Leviathan, reorganising democratic power in Nigeria by reconfiguring the conditions ...