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In the days since Hurricane Helene left a swath of destruction across the Southeastern United States, former President Donald J. Trump has praised the tech billionaire Elon Musk for what he has described as Mr. Musk’s personal efforts and extragovernmental largess to bring internet service back to hard-hit rural areas.

A major international study suggests there has been a sharp rise in what it calls "problematic" social media use among young people since the pandemic.

Researchers came to the conclusion after surveying almost 280,000 children aged 11, 13 and 15 across 44 countries.

The Health Behaviour In School-aged Children (HBSC) study found, on average, 11% of respondents engaged with social media in a problematic way in 2022 - compared to 7% in 2018.

England, Scotland and Wales all recorded figures above that average.

TikTok has removed accounts on the platform linked to Russian media groups for engaging in what it calls “covert influence operations” ahead of the 2024 U.S. election.

The video-streaming platform announced Monday it had removed accounts associated with parent companies Rossiya Segodnya and TV-Novosti for violating its community guidelines.

TikTok did not list which specific accounts were removed, but NBC News reported Russian state media outlets RT, formerly known as Russia Today, and Sputnik were now permanently banned.

Swiping dating app profiles goes beyond figuring out who gives you the ick — it may also encourage wealth disparity.

Nearly 60 million Americans report using dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge, where you can filter by age, career, education, and other marketable traits.

But using the apps to find the ‘one’ means you could be contributing to income inequality, according to research from the Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis and Dallas and Haverford College.

Online dating may be partially to blame for an increase in income inequality in the US in recent decades, according to a research paper.

Since the emergence of dating apps that allow people to look for a partner based on criteria including education, Americans have increasingly been marrying someone more like themselves. That accounts for about half of the rise in income inequality among households between 1980 and 2020, researchers from the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas and St. Louis and Haverford College found. 

From heartstrings to purse strings, online dating has changed the way we think about love and culture, but what if it's also changing the way we think about money?

A recent paper from researchers at the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas and St. Louis and Haverford College found that online dating may have contributed to an uptick in income inequality in the U.S. over recent decades as an increasing number of people swipe left on potential mates who don't meet their criteria in select areas.

The organizers of a mysterious network paid influencers to promote sexual smears of Vice President Kamala Harris as Democrats rallied around her to be their presidential candidate in late July.

The attacks were part of a campaign that was, on the surface, an unremarkable part of a new wave of social media marketing. It’s blurred the lines in both US political parties between paid advertising and the posts of enthusiastic supporters — as partisan influencers often cast themselves — who just happen to be paid.

The Brazilian government is issuing a fine of $9,000 per day for using a virtual private network to access X as part of its crackdown on the website.

Reddit, RDDT, CEO Steve Huffman has hinted that in future some subreddits could be paywalled, as the company seeks to devise new sources of income



During an earnings call, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman mentioned that the company plans to test AI-powered search results later this year, hinting at the potential for AI to become a significant source of revenue.