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HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media
HMRC has confirmed it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor social media posts as part of criminal investigations into ...
Only some emotions help social media posts go viral, research shows
The positive emotions of love and joy might seem to have much in common. Similarly, anxiety and anger appear to be close ...
Politicians are using social media to campaign. New research tells us what works and what doesn't
By the time the next US election takes place in 2028, millennial and gen Z voters—who already watch over six hours of media ...
Gold will not face tariffs, Trump says in social media post
President Donald Trump said Monday in a Truth Social post that there will be no tariffs on gold after last week's wild gold ...
Social media has become an antisocial monster. It’s time to call it something else.
In a 2012 statement, Mark Zuckerberg wrote that Facebook’s mission was to “to make the world more open and connected.” He ...
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How to Do a Social Media Detox to Improve Your Mental Well-Being
Spending time offline during a digital or social media detox can help you foster better relationships IRL and improve mental ...
Social media’s impact on your mental health
Vaibhav Diwadkar, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences, joins ABC News to discuss social media ...
The Social Media Trend Machine Is Spitting Out Weirder and Weirder Results
You get the picture. It’s all sort of like this now, which is a subtle but startling departure from what it used to take for ...
How the Secret Algorithms Behind Social Media Actually Work
Score = Vlike × Plike + Vlove × Plove + Vangry × Pangry + Vcomment × Pcomment + Vshare × Pshare ...
Can Cuomo Match Mamdani’s Social Media Savvy? He’s Trying.
Andrew M. Cuomo’s decisive loss to Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral primary has led to a campaign rebranding that ...
Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote
The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church ...
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Social media toxicity can't be fixed by changing the algorithms
Experiments involving AI chatbots interacting on a simulated social media platform suggest efforts to design out antagonistic user behaviour will not succeed ...