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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 ...
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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...
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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 ...

The Social Media Trend Machine Is Spitting Out Weirder and Weirder Results

Every Next Big Trend that has popped up on my phone for the past year has made me feel like I’m losing my mind, even the ...

How the Secret Algorithms Behind Social Media Actually Work

Score = Vlike × Plike + Vlove × Plove + Vangry × Pangry + Vcomment × Pcomment + Vshare × Pshare ...

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 ...

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 ...