Social media platform X suffers global outages

Leezer, 30, a licensed clinical social worker in Chicago who runs his own private practice, created the TikTok less than a month ago to post videos about the kinds of things he focuses on with his clients: self-esteem, body image, anxiety. Then, last week, he got the comment on one of his videos.  “In that…

Stung by an advertiser boycott and accusations of antisemitism, Elon Musk didn’t hide his hurt feelings in an onstage interview at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit conference. “Go f— yourself,” he said to the advertisers who have fled social media platform X, formerly Twitter. Then, apparently addressing Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger in the…

BuzzFeed News managed to find more than 20 Foopah challenge videos within an hour of being on the platform, only to be shown more on the For You page because of that engagement. (BuzzFeed News will not be linking to or embedding any videos besides Andrews’s, as we cannot guarantee all users taking part in…

Meta Platforms said Tuesday it would hide more content from teens on Instagram and Facebook, after regulators around the globe pressed the social media giant to protect children from harmful content on its apps. All teens will now be placed into the most restrictive content control settings on the apps and additional search terms will be limited…

The criminal convictions of Sam Bankman-Fried and the Binance gang just mark the beginning of the U.S. government’s drive to expose crypto as a tool for fraud and money-laundering. Yet some politicians are still trying to polish its reputation.