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Both social media companies plan to implement special protocols on Tuesday as election results begin rolling in.

A 2020 study published in the journal of Psychological Science explores the idea that fake news can actually help you remember real facts better.

MIT Professor Sinan Aral’s new book, “The Hype Machine,” explores the perils and promise of social media in a time of discord.

What responsibility should government authorities and Big Tech take in policing the spread of sedition-oriented content?

New research reveals the extent to which groupthink bias is increasingly being built into the content we consume.

Will nefarious players use social media to sway public opinion again this November?

New documents confirm that the government agency—one of many—has been using a tracking company.

Pandemic rumors and information overload make separating fact from fancy difficult, putting people’s health and lives at risk.

Parental anxieties stem from the complex relationship between technology, child development, and the internet’s trove of unseemly content.

Fear-mongering is now a billion-dollar industry.

Here are 5 simple steps to creating a side hustle you can cash in on—just remember: quality should be at the heart of each step.

Despite fact check campaigns, anti-vaccination influence is growing.

Many of the most popular apps are about self-improvement.

Do we really know what we want in a romantic partner? If so, do our desires actually mean we match up with people who suit them?

The programming giant exits the space due to ethical concerns.

Got any embarrassing old posts collecting dust on your profile? Facebook wants to help you delete them.

Mathematicians studied 100 billion tweets to help computer algorithms better understand our colloquial digital communication.

Neo’s superhuman powers were only inside of The Matrix. The outside world offered a different reality.

Online dating has evolved, but at what cost?

The key to raising indistractable kids is to first determine why they’re distracted.

Despite being raised in a screen-lit world, today’s children make and maintain friendships as well as past generations.

Simple tricks for hacking back your device.

We encode our biases into everything we create: books, poems, and AI. What does that means for an increasingly automated future?

These three tactics will help you focus on the task at hand.

“One way the internet distorts our picture of ourselves is by feeding the human tendency to overestimate our knowledge of how the world works,” writes philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch.

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Get the resources you need to market online all in one place.

Come to grips with the fundamentals of graphic design and master the field’s top tools.

Is there a way for more human-centered algorithms to prevent potentially triggering interactions on social media?

Do you want Facebook or Google to control your legacy?