The company will enroll around 50,000 public figures to launch a global trial in December, excluding major jurisdictions where it lacks regulatory clearance, such as Britain, European Union, South Korea, and Texas and Illinois in the United States.

On Thursday, the Oregon Secretary of State Elections Division was forced to halt its phone lines after receiving numerous calls from enraged supporters of Donald Trump following the online spread of misinformation.

Meta, a company valued at 1.2 trillion, has allegedly fired employees over their reported misuse of the company's $25 meal credit system.

Social media users are celebrating after a pro-Israel professor at Columbia University was temporarily suspended for harassing his colleagues.

A 17-year-old boy in India was arrested for sending hoax bomb threats to several airlines using a fake X account to frame a friend he was angry with.

A British man fell to his death while climbing a Spanish bridge in an attempt to "create content" for social media, reported local authorities.

54% of respondents in the Axios survey agreed with the statement, "I've disengaged from politics because I can't tell what's true"

White supremacists on social media have expressed support for and praised MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell after the new price for one of the company's products mirrors a numerical neo-Nazi symbol.

Fans of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have taken to X (formerly Twitter), imploring Elon Musk to buy Infowars and return control of the website to Jones after Jones will be forced to auction off the platform.

Meta has removed the Instagram account of a former far-right Missouri political candidate whose content featured hate speech and violent rhetoric against the LBBTQ+ community.

A recent study by The Harris Poll demonstrates that large percentages of Gen Z wish social media apps such as TikTok, X, Snapchat and Instagram didn't exist.

Two additional justices sided with Alexandre de Moraes' decision last week, forming a majority in a five-member panel

Viral X and Tik Tok posts claim that members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club are on their way to Aurora, Colorado, to confront Tren de Aragua.

Judge Alexandre de Moraes had given Elon Musk a hard deadline to name a legal representative in the country

Judge Alexandre de Moraes gave the social media platform until Thursday evening to name a legal representative in the country

The X owner accompanied his response with an image of himself in front of a podium that reads "Department of Government Efficiency"

The measure will go into effect when the school year begins in August

The measure is in effect during the school day and is set to reach over 420,000 students

Musk announced the decision after a Fuentes supporter asked him to do so on Thursday

The American Psychological Association said that young people, whose brains are not fully developed yet, are less able to disengage from addictive experiences

Trump's social media platform, Truth Social, had fewer than half a million active users in February

Social media apps have faced increased criticism for not doing enough to protect minors. Latinos are among the heaviest social media users

Gen Z is the generation that most uses social media to learn languages

The law, which is set to face legal challenges, bans accounts for children under 14 and requires parental permission for those aged 15 and 16

One third of Latino adolescents and children using social media in the U.S. do it "almost constantly," according to their parents.

The US House of Representatives is set to vote later Wednesday on a bill that would force the app to cut ties with its Chinese owner or get banned in the United States.

A bipartisan initiative threatens to ban TikTok in the US

"If you haven't already, make a plan to vote today," said the artist to her 282 million followers on Instagram

Former President Trump has thrown his weight behind the state laws, decrying what he perceives as bias and discrimination by social media platforms.

The company had slightly more than 5,300 employees at the start of November last year, the company said.