Most research on teen social media use has been conducted on white teens and college students. As a result, it is unclear to what extent overlooked populations such as racial and ethnic minorities, ...

My journalism degree required a capstone project — a sort-of bachelor’s level thesis paper on a subject we were meant to dig into and understand deeply. I chose media bias because it seemed the most ...

Social media platforms’ suspensions of accounts may not be rooted in political biases, but rather certain political groups’ tendency to share misinformation, according to a new study. The study, ...

A wave of layoffs at high-profile legacy media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times and Time magazine has rippled across the news industry just as journalists at other major outlets are engaged in ...

It’s nothing new for the big tech firms ⁠— namely Facebook and Twitter — to face allegations that they silence conservative voices amid their efforts to make their platforms more advertiser-friendly.

Feb. 8 (UPI) --House Republicans took aim at the Biden family and big tech on Wednesday in a hearing on Twitter's handling of a news story regarding a laptop belonging to President Joe Biden's son, ...

Lucknow: Covid vaccines remain safe, and fears linking them to heart attacks, infertility, menstrual disorders, or sudden deaths stem largely from misinformation and social media bias — not scientific ...

Understanding how rage bait manipulates social media engagement and why it spreads faster than positive content.

"Rage Bait" is officially Oxford University's Press Word of the Year. But what does it really mean? And why is it so prevalent?