How to Stop Social Media Platforms From Tracking You When You Share Posts

Social media platforms affix trackers to the links you share, but it's easy to delete these trackers if you know how.
CNBC

Countries are barring teens from social media—could the U.S. be next? One expert thinks it's 'inevitable'

In December 2025, Australia became the first country to bar anyone under 16 from keeping or making social media accounts. The penalty for companies violating the law is a fine of up to $49.5 million ...
BGR

New Social Media Site Showed AI Plotting The Singularity, But You Should Be Worried For A Different Reason

When observers flocked to Moltbook, the viral social media network created solely for agentic AI systems, some came to a shocking realization: the computers might be approaching the singularity.
Seattle Times

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

SAN FRANCISCO — The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names ...
The New York Times

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said ...
TheWrap

Instagram Chief Argues Social Media Not ‘Clinically Addictive’ in Landmark Trial

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri argued that social media is not “clinically addictive” in the latest from the landmark trial. On the second day of the trial, which took place Wednesday before a jury in Los ...
Forbes

Moltbook Shows What Happens When Bots Take Over Social Media

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The social media site Moltbook offers a glimpse of a digital public square shaped by ...
AOL

A look inside Moltbook — the Reddit-style social media site for AI agents that is dividing humans

Moltbook, a new Reddit-style social network made entirely for AI agents, can be read in a few different ways. It might be an ominous glimpse of an AI-driven future. Or a clever meta-commentary on how ...
The Atlantic

A Social-Media Ban Really Could Do a Lot of Good

Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...
Lifehacker

'Moltbook' Is a Social Media Platform for AI Bots to Chat With Each Other

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...
People

TikTok Settles Lawsuit Alleging Social Media Platforms Are Addictive

Snap Inc., the company that operates Snapchat, also entered into a settlement in the suit CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty A California woman, referred to as "K.G.M.," sued TikTok, Snap, Meta and ...