social media risks

We're joined by a Banner editor and two reporters who've worked on the online news platform's deep dive into Baltimore's surging auto-theft rates.

“Just like Big Tobacco did a generation ago, Meta has chosen to maximize its profits at the expense of public health, specifically the health of our children.”

The hugely popular video-sharing network, with known ties to the Chinese government, is spreading falsehoods on a wide array of issues, according to a new report from Newsguard. Author Jack Brewster has details.

Media Matters president Angelo Carusone discusses the potential impacts of Elon Musk's planned $44 Billion purchase of the influential social media platform.

The history scholar says massive flows of misinformation and deception on social media and the Web are changing our past, and warping our view of the present.

Social media giants are planning to aim content at very young users. Can a platform be designed that makes kids’ well-being its priority? What are the risks? What are the benefits? We hear from two experts: A child psychiatrist and an early-childhood educator.

In their book, New York Times journalists Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang spotlight greed and dysfunction at the social media behemoth.

A tech-ethics advocate and a UMd professor of information studies discuss how Big Tech firms like Facebook pose a threat to democracy and privacy, and how they can be reigned in.

Social media giants are planning to aim content at very young users. Can a platform be designed that makes kids’ well-being its priority? What are the risks? What are the benefits? We hear from two experts: A child psychiatrist and an early-childhood educator.

Journalists Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang spotlight greed and dysfunction at the social media behemoth.