On Monday, Leavitt said on social media that the administration is launching a “Media Offender of the Week” section on the White House website to call out “fake news,” which, you might remember, is a phrase Trump has been known to use to describe accurate journalism about him that he doesn’t like.

It would be easy, based on the news media’s borderline obsession with TikTok and X, to assume that those platforms are, if not the most used social media tools in America today, then very close to the top. They’re not. In fact, they’re squarely in the middle, according to a new study from Pew Research.

Social media platforms Lemon8 and Yope are put on notice about age limit laws as both apps surge in popularity ahead of a ban for under 16s.

Instagram users may overestimate the extent to which they are addicted to the platform, according to research conducted on 1,204 U.S. adults published in Scientific Reports. The findings suggest that for most social media users,

Ok, I'm going to go on a bit of a rant here because this stuff is super annoying. It's not just a thing Detroit Lions fans do; this is a thing that all sports fans do, and now it's spread into media stuff too.

Research suggests that the political toxicity many users encounter on social media is a design choice that can be reversed

Ten people were hospitalized between May and August after using knockoff Botox injections purchased on social media. At least one of the individuals was a New York City resident, and all survived.

The phrase refers to online content that is "deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive," with the aim of driving traffic to a particular social media account.