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The Bloomberg memes say he’s got enough money to take risks. But what do they...
Since the era of Barack Obama’s presidency, social media platforms have served as a testing ground for politicians to market themselves, reach out to voters, and generate online buzz. And it seems,...
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We know companies are collecting and sharing our data. Is there anything we...
It’s a trade-off we make nearly every day: In order to use a service to stay in touch with friends, or to watch our favorite television show, we consent to giving up certain information about...
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Lessons from one of the world’s most successful businesswomen on running a...
Anu Aga had no background in business or engineering. But when her husband, Rohinton Aga, died unexpectedly in 1996, she found herself at the helm of one of India’s largest engineering companies,...
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Fake news vs. factual news: Think twice about what’s in your feed
If a news story pops up in your social feed and it has hundreds of likes, does that mean the article is true or just popular? Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference. It is growing increasingly...
View ArticleAll your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered
When can I get a vaccine? How does it work? And will I still need to wear a mask afterward? These are some of the many questions people have in advance of the Food and Drug Administration’s open...
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Can social media and journalism form a global partnership?
Social media companies bring large audiences to stories reported by the news media, and turn profits from selling ads around those stories. Are these platforms offering a constructive future for the...
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Should Facebook, Twitter review your posts before they’re published?
The day is coming when your posts to social media may travel through checkpoints before the messages go public. All of your posts to Facebook, Twitter, and other social platforms may be instantly...
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Liberals and conservatives agree on need for social media ‘labeling’ to...
There is broad bipartisan support among self-identified liberals and conservatives that social media companies should add warning labels to posts that contain misleading information, or that could...
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Why does Instagram have a negative effect on teenagers’ mental health?
Rachel Rodgers is associate professor of applied psychology in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University Since at least March 2020, Facebook...
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The perils of ‘doomscrolling’ when the world is on fire
For anyone who is even moderately active on social media in 2021, confronting world chaos is part of the daily routine—so much so that we’ve coined phrases to help capture the feeling of being in the...
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The Push for Facebook Regulation Gathers Momentum
Since Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, came forward with troubling information about the far-reaching harms caused by the company’s algorithms, talk of potential regulatory reforms has only...
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Facebook is betting on the metaverse. But what is that, anyway?
With its rebrand as Meta, Facebook is hitching its wagon to a virtual future—and hoping that its investors and its users will go along for the ride. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the social network giant,...
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Facebook isn’t shutting down its facial recognition system after all
Facebook recently announced that it would be shutting down its facial recognition system and deleting its store of face-scan data from the billion people who opted in to the system. In a press...
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Untested, Instagram’s new teen safety measures may not work
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri faces Congress Wednesday armed with a slew of new safety features meant to protect younger users on the social media platform—a response to revelations that the company knew...
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Data privacy is already a challenge–and the metaverse could make it worse
The metaverse is more than the latest obsession of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It’s a three-dimensional world of virtual and augmented reality that we will be exploring—via our digital...
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Free speech on social media doesn’t mean the same thing around the world
Facebook, Google, Instagram, and other social media giants are based in the United States, where they have faced relatively little government oversight. But their reach extends around the world,...
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Meet the most unlikely beer maker in North America
SPENCER, Mass.—Father Isaac Keeley knew nothing about beer. He was a 59-year-old Trappist monk who rose daily at 2:30 a.m. to pray for most of the next four hours. Yet there he was, at a local public...
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Do Facebook ads win elections? It’s complicated.
Did Facebook ads help turn the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as many have reported anecdotally? Katherine Haenschen, an assistant professor of communication studies and political science at...
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Facebook ad algorithms may be harmful to well-informed democratic society,...
Northeastern University research scientist Piotr Sapiezynski recently told the European Parliament that Facebook’s ad delivery algorithms may be harmful both to political campaigns and to society at...
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Facebook’s ad delivery algorithm is discriminating based on race, gender and...
Have you ever noticed the faces in Facebook ads seem to match your gender, race or age? That isn’t an accident, Northeastern computer science researchers say. A new paper published by a group of...
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Why is Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse failing?
Celia Pearce has fond, vivid memories of living a Second Life. The online non-game virtual world “Second Life” launched in the early 2000s attracted people, like Pearce, who were looking for, what...
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Twitter, Meta and TikTok dominated 2022. What will the social media landscape...
The world of social media is always changing, and 2023 is likely going to see more change, especially after a year like 2022. Social media is such an integral part of modern life that any change on a...
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Researchers, disaster relief groups in ‘crisis mode’ after Twitter says they...
The social media platform Twitter used to share “precise, complete and unbiased data from the public conversation” with developers, academics, students and nonprofit organizations for free. That is...
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New research pushes back against charge that Google search engine creates...
Is Google’s search engine a neutral arbiter for information, providing a diverse set of sources for any given query, or is it deliberately steering users toward content that aligns with their beliefs?...
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Meta fine shows EU is ‘regulatory superpower,’ Northeastern expert says
A record $1.3 billion fine on Meta for violating the privacy of Facebook users in Europe has further established the European Union as a “regulatory superpower,” says Mai’a Cross, dean’s professor of...
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