TikTok is working on a clone of its recommendation algorithm for its 170 million U.S. users that may result in a version that operates independently of its Chinese parent and be more palatable to ...

President Donald Trump announced on Sept. 19, 2025, a preliminary agreement for the sale of a majority stake in TikTok from Chinese tech giant ByteDance to a group of U.S. investors following Trump's ...

Instagram is testing a feature that lets users add or remove topics to adjust what appears in their Reels and Explore feeds, ...

The story of TikTok has always been complicated by its ownership. When its predecessor, lip-syncing app Musical.ly, broke through with children and teenagers in 2016, the New York Times noted it’s ...

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One of the best features yet is about to hit Instagram as a test. According to a Meta newsroom post, the social media platform has started offering some users the ability to reset their Instagram ...

It is officially a "new era of transparency" at Twitter. For a while now, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has been promising that the company would open source its code. That plan has been delayed many times ...

The update will make feed curation more transparent and reduce frustration around random or repetitive content.

Washington — President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that paves the way for a deal brokered by his administration to keep TikTok operating in the U.S. under a new corporate structure ...