Surveying the social media landscape, it’s clear that authentic connections have taken a backseat to ever-more curated content. If there’s no good place online to get thoughtful emotional ...

Has social media run it's course? Not likely. Apps like TikTok, Facebook, and Linkedin more popular than ever. But with fewer people finding it useful and a flurry of mental health-related lawsuits, ...

Adolescents view social media as the most authentic form of media, surpassing traditional entertainment platforms in perceived genuineness, according to a new study from the University of California, ...

The creation and rapidly developing popularity of BeReal, an app that seeks to embody the idea of authentic social media, proves that authentic social media is an oxymoron. BeReal sends users a ...

If all a social media feed has to offer is endless scrolling through low-quality content, which can often turn out to be providing wrong or misleading information, users are invariably going to start ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently voiced fears over the truthfulness of social media content, wondering if bots were behind a good deal of it. In an eye-opening X post, Altman explained how he scrolled ...

“Follow me on Spotify!” “Oh, and on Goodreads!” “And Letterboxd!” All are sentences that used to haunt me at night. No, I do not want to follow you. You’d follow me back and see all that I admittedly ...