Following a few weeks of testing, WhatsApp is officially rolling out the new profile tab to iOS users. Here are the details. Last month, WABetaInfo reported that the TestFlight beta of WhatsApp ...

Spotify is testing a new Taste Profile feature, allowing users to directly tweak the algorithm behind their daily rotation Premium subscribers can use natural language prompts to curate their feeds, ...

You're responsible for your own Spotify algorithm now. On stage at SXSW, Spotify's co-CEO, Gustav Söderström, announced the Taste Profile feature, which allows users to personally customize exactly ...

PCWorld reports that Microsoft Edge is developing a new feature allowing Windows users to create and remove desktop shortcuts for individual browser profiles. This Windows-exclusive functionality will ...

Burner accounts on social media sites can increasingly be analyzed to identify the pseudonymous users who post to them using AI in research that has far-reaching consequences for privacy on the ...

People recovering from eating disorders often use social media for support, seeking out recovery content, body-positive creators and others with similar experiences. But recent research my colleagues ...

Today, trust in popular platforms is diminishing, organic reach is haphazard and hard to predict, and user behavior is growing more difficult to discern than ever before. At the same time, a steady ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questioning in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday about Instagram's under-13 users and Meta's efforts to boost engagement, as a trial examines whether the company ...

Meta Platforms META-1.63%decrease; red down pointing triangle Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg faced a barrage of questions about his social-media company’s efforts to secure ever more of its users’ ...

In the latest escalation of their efforts to push back against opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security is issuing hundreds of subpoenas to the ...

NBC 5 Responds to an Instagram user who lost access to his account. He believes he was banned by mistake, but he couldn’t reach anyone at the social media company for help. He’s not alone. A ...

An Illinois House bill would establish a new act that would put age restrictions on social media platforms. Democratic Rep. Curtis Tarver, who represents the 25th state House District, which includes ...