If you’re looking for #womenshealth on Instagram, a new study shows you’d better be prepared for lots of adverts dressed up as health advice.
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Meta has been forced to roll out new measures, but many can be easily circumvented.
The settlement calls for changes to Meta’s platforms but does not change the company’s surveillance-based business model
Unless forced to do so, big tech companies are unlikely to implement features that go against their business model.
The government is returning to some unfinished business: strengthening its social media age restrictions.
The agreement could mark a turning point for public policies on social media precisely because it addresses the architecture of the platforms themselves.
Major changes for TikTok and YouTube could be about to follow.
Meta’s settlement calls for several key design changes to protect teens, but how the states will verify and enforce the changes is a big question mark.
A loss for Meta may force it to redesign Facebook and Instagram – and not just for US users.
Often, when people talk about their pets, they are also talking about themselves — about the things they value and the experiences that shape who they are.
Paying for engaging content is not the same as intending to fund extremism, but it creates a risk that harmful content will benefit.
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
There is a risk this study will be leveraged by big tech platforms to exonerate themselves.
When you’re tired and distracted, an online ad’s claims can be more effective in pitching a product when they’re assertive and explicit.
Influencer culture is not a thing of the past, and yet the movers and shakers of post-revolutionary France are proof that writing lifestyle columns and trending is a centuries-old pursuit.
A study of over 6,000 posts by European football associations demonstrates that communities react very differently, depending on the type of diversity up for debate.
The full effects of the ban may not be clear for a decade.
More than 2 in 5 social media marketers say they plan to leave their job within two years, and many cite insufficient mental health support from supervisors.
Success will rely significantly on parents’ abilities – and children’s willingness – to engage with these new tools.
This shift is a clear reversal of Meta’s privacy-first posture, which Mark Zuckerberg announced back in 2019.
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Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Research Fellow in Public Health, The University of Queensland
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NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health and Co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Loyola University Chicago
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Professor of Internet Studies & Director of Influencer Ethnography Research Lab, Curtin University
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professor of Digital Culture, Business and Computing, Durham University
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Associate Professor in Marketing, Director Centre for Organisations and Social Change, RMIT University
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Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Researcher, Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Saint Mary’s University
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Assistant Professor, Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Advertising and Public Relations, University of Tennessee