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Experts and r/ChangeMyView subreddit moderators offer 10 tips to debunk conspiracy theories convincingly—and kindly.

A step-by-step guide to finding and removing your personal information from the internet.

Only you can see who viewed your profile, but if you turn on the feature, then you're also consenting to let other people see that you've viewed their profile.

Or how, exactly, platforms die.

Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego

Advertising spend on Twitter Inc dropped by 71% in December, data from an advertising research firm showed, as top advertisers slashed their spending on the social-media platform after Elon Musk's takeover.

When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something…

A digital detox is a period in which a person voluntarily refrains from using digital devices including smartphones, computers and social media platforms. However, recent research has shown that…

«The internet has made it possible to talk at length with strangers who share your passion for any subject—make the most of it»

Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn't work.

«Disagreement in society is necessary for progress, but it’s most constructive when it’s mediated by bonds of trust and affinity and semi-privacy.»

These are the days of our lives.

One Twitter insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform.

The app’s original purpose has been lost in the era of “performance” media.

«Simply being on Instagram is a very different thing from actively engaging with it. Participating means throwing pictures into a void, which is why it’s become kind of cringe. To do so earnestly suggests a blithe unawareness of your surroundings, like shouting into the phone in public.»

Learn more about external validation. Why we crave it. Why it can be a good. And how to heal from constantly needing external validation.

“Buy now, pay later” services could very well be jeopardizing the financial futures...

«28% of Black and Hispanic Americans signed up for at least one point-of-sale loan in January 2022, compared with 14% of white Americans.»

It’s not just a phase.

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

«“an attentional pathogenic culture” – an environment in which sustained and deep focus is harder for all of us»

Jonathan Haidt thinks so. I’m not so sure.

«Still, looking around today, I don’t see quite as much bleakness as Haidt seems to see. And one reason, I think, is that I don’t see the causes of our current troubles as being quite as novel as he does. We’ve been here before, and humankind survived.»