Hanna Kozlowska

Pinterest is a place where people go for hairstyle inspiration, an attractive cookie recipe, or to plan their wedding to a terrifyingly meticulous degree. It’s not really a social network per se—you don’t follow your friends or brands—it’s more of a “discovery engine,” as Pinterest likes to say, or the internet’s scrapbook, like everyone else does. So it’s also not necessarily where you think you’d find influencers, whose entire schtick is personal branding and building a loyal audience.

New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, has announced the launch of a multi-state investigation into Facebook’s market dominance and “potential anticompetitive conduct stemming from that dominance.”

Facebook announced that it’s introduced a dating service in the US today (Sept. 5), as it prepares to disrupt the already crowded online dating scene.

Instagram announced it was testing hiding the number of likes posts get this April and Facebook is following suit. The social networks are trying to undo some of the damage they had wreaked on their users’ mental health, unravelling an obsession with self-quantification and a culture of constant comparison and envy that the sites have engendered.

Facebook has been using facial recognition to suggest tagging you in photos that a friend had uploaded, unless you told it not to—until today. Now, users will have to opt into allow Facebook to use facial recognition on them and their photos, rather than opt out.

More than 400 police agencies across the United States are working with the Amazon-owned Ring home surveillance system, and now you can check if your local department is one of them.

Sometimes it feels like we live in a dystopia. Gigantic corporations know everything there is to know about us. They do their damndest to find out what we might want to buy at any given moment. Online personalities pretend to be our friends to sell us even more. Surveillance cameras are everywhere. Billionaires are investing in schemes to make themselves live forever. Rainforests are burning, while we’re trying to make better juicers.

In a world where everyone leads a specific lifestyle, whether it is being vegan, on a keto diet, or having a dog, it’s increasingly difficult for review sites to keep everyone happy.

Instagram has turned into an endless shopping experience, almost like a mall. It lets you wander, browse, even have some fun—but everything is designed to make you spend more money without any obstacles.

The success of WeWork, the coworking company, depends in large part on whether its tenants have relatively stable and viable jobs—which often means working for a larger employer. And the share of WeWork members employed by bigger companies is rising, the company said in its filing for an initial public offering, released today.

8chan, the online forum where perpetrators of mass shootings have been known to post their hate-filled “manifestos,” has been experiencing outages after Cloudflare, the shield that protects many websites from concerted cyberattacks, decided to kick the site off its services.

Pinterest, the scrapbooking platform, is now inspiring 300 million users worldwide each month. The company posted its second-ever earnings report today (August 1), after going public on April 18, saying that its monthly average users, called “pinners,” have grown 30% since this time last year. For comparison, Snapchat has roughly 190 million daily users, and Twitter has 139 million.

Two American citizens who were recently caught smuggling large quantities of illegal narcotics from Mexico into the United States said they had been recruited through job ads posted on Facebook.

Scores of Poles are revealing themselves to be gay, bisexual, trans, or queer on social media, following violent attacks on a pride parade in eastern Poland last week. They talk about how they are regular people, teachers, doctors, high school students or just neighbors you might pass on the street or in the grocery store. Others are joining in as allies of the community, all under the hashtag #jestemLGBT or “#IamLGBT.” It became the top trending hashtag on Twitter in the country, with many thousands of entries.

After a 16-year pause, the federal government will resume executing death row inmates, attorney general William Barr announced in a news release Thursday (July 25). The Department of Justice has already scheduled five executions to take place in December and January.

Facebook confirmed July 24 that it is facing two antitrust probes from the US government during a whirlwind day of news for the company.

Tony Blas is a plumber in his mid-thirties who lives in Queens, New York. He has two young daughters. In his spare time, he hunts for people who try to groom children online and lure them into sex.

Pinterest may be the social network of choice for decor inspiration or hairstyle ideas, but apparently it’s also where people go to express that they’re stressed out. Although maybe this shouldn’t be a surprise, considering how often the site is used for wedding planning, an incredibly stressful ordeal.

Facebook’s Messenger Kids app had one job: to allow parents to control who their kids can chat with. It was supposed to ensure kids could only talk to people their parents had hand-selected as contacts. It turns out, it couldn’t even fulfill this basic promise, piling on to the company’s poor record on user privacy.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a $5 billion settlement against Facebook for violating users’ privacy, several news organizations reported July 12.

Instagram has a bullying problem, and it’s trying new ways to stop hurtful and harassing comments.

Today’s wealth lies in data. It’s how relatively young companies like Facebook or Google have grown to be among the biggest and most profitable in the world. It’s the fuel that drives business in countless industries that allows them to make informed business decisions. And as lawmakers turn their attention to how people’s data is managed, a central question arises: how much is consumer data worth, and should the companies benefitting from that information share the immense wealth our data has afforded them?

Axon, the maker of body cameras used by many US police agencies, announced Thursday (June 27) that it is choosing not to turn facial recognition technology into a business, on recommendation of an ethics board of policing experts.

It turns out that the humble act of knitting can be quite politically charged. Ravelry, a social network for knitting enthusiasts, announced on Sunday (June 23) that it was banning expressions of support for Donald Trump and white supremacy, equating the two stances.