TikTok users freak out over app’s ‘immigration status’ collection — here’s what it means

TikTok users are freaking out over a mention of "immigration status" data collection, but lawyers explain the disclosure is ...

Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook

A massive unsecured database exposed 149 million logins, raising concerns over infostealer malware and credential theft.
Phys.org

AI model uses social media posts to predict unemployment rates ahead of official data

Social media posts about unemployment can predict official jobless claims up to two weeks before government data is released, according to a study. Unemployment can be tough, and people often post ...
The Repository

Oxford Dictionary's Word of the Year fitting for social media | Opinion

The Oxford Dictionary has announced that its 2025 Word of the Year is "rage bait." Perfect. There were many candidates this year, including "rizz," shorthand for charisma, and "Ohio," which is not a ...
TechCrunch

Reddit argues it isn’t like other social platforms in case against Australia’s social media ban

In a move worthy of a post on the Not Like The Other Girls subreddit, Reddit, one of the world’s largest social platforms, is arguing that it isn’t like other, actual social media sites, as the ...
The New York Times

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History

Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don’t need visas, would have to share five years’ worth of social media. By Christine Chung Travelers visiting the United States ...
Phys.org

'Rage bait' is the Oxford Word of the Year, showing how social media is manufacturing anger

It shouldn't come as a surprise that the Oxford Dictionary has named "rage bait" its Word of the Year. The quantity of live-streamed drama in 2025 has made it clear that outrage is now fueling much ...
Frontiers

Time in social media applications: a definition and a tool to analyse technological affordances of time

1 Department of Audiovisual Communication, Documentation and Art History, Universitat Politècnica de València, València, Spain 2 Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Centre, Polytechnic ...
New York Post

Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year introduces a new way to troll social media users

Doomscrolling has a new hazard. Oxford University Press announced “rage bait” is its 2025 word of the year. The prestigious publisher defines “rage bait” as “online content deliberately designed to ...
ucdavis.edu

Risks of AI Mirror Social Media

Artificial intelligence is already blurring how we think about what is real, even when we know the truth. A recent study at UC Davis had AI chatbots send messages to people’s phones to remind them to ...
Fox News

Dictionary.com declares '6-7' Word of the Year

Whether a parent, teacher, youth pastor or an innocent bystander on a sidewalk, no one has been safe from the "6-7" Gen Alpha trend sweeping across America — a viral sensation that’s now been named ...