NPR's Adrian Ma talks to Adam Aleksic about his new book, "Algospeak," which looks at how algorithms and online creators are affecting the way people speak offline.

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“Algospeak” is a fascinating blend of etymology, psychology, cultural analysis and first-person perspective. The book acts as ...

Linda Yaccarino exits as CEO of Elon Musk’s X, leaving users and industry insiders speculating about what’s next.

Rather, the problem lies in how social media has skewed our definition of "social." Our online interactions are never just between each other; instead, they are between you, ...

Does using social media make us dumber? That’s a question author Nicholas Carr posed in his wonderful book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains in 2011. Unfortunately, the book ...

Visitors stand near screens displaying the Meta logo in Berlin on June 6. Under a U.S. judge's new ruling, much of the federal government is now barred from working with social media companies to ...

There isn’t even a shared definition of what social media is. It leaves parents, policymakers and other adults in teenagers’ lives without clear guidance on what to be worried about.

If we want to understand the relationship between social media and democracy, we need to understand how social media changed the meaning of the word “friend.” ...

Nearly 3.5 billion people worldwide use some type of social media, according to a survey conducted by advertising company Monster.And yet for years, there was no place for it within the confines of ...