Social media used to be fun. You would get to see what your friends and family members have been up to. These days? These days it has become a game of chasing engagement and manipulating the algorithm ...

Instagram used to be a photographer's playground. Sadly, those days are long gone. The platform that once celebrated photography now treats our carefully composed images like an inconvenient ...

Longtime users of Instagram, the photo- and video-focused first cousin to Meta’s Facebook, know it isn’t what it used to be.

Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that powers open source X alternative Mastodon, ...

There is a lot of change in the air of the social media world as TikTok prepares to go (potentially) dark, Mark Zuckerberg loosens content restrictions on Meta apps, and Elon Musk continues to toy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. At a time when established social media platforms are facing criticism and turbulence — from TikTok's temporary shutdown to Meta's ...

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Baby Elon Musk. Shrimp Jesus. The Titanic colliding with an iceberg lettuce. Social media is saturated with AI slop — low-quality, often ridiculous and sometimes disturbing images, videos, or words ...

In the world of mobile apps, it’s normal for companies to “inspire” each other, especially when a particular service is extremely popular. ByteDance’s TikTok already enjoys immense popularity on its ...