CEO, Bluesky Social Jay Graber speaks on stage during 2025 Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Summit & Gala at Jacob Javits Center on June 5, 2025 in New York City. Eugene Gologursky | Getty Images Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said Monday that she will be stepping down and transitioning to the company’s chief innovation officer….
Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake. Roughly half of U.S. states have enacted or are advancing…
The giddy days of free cloud storage enticed many to upload photos, documents, and other virtual mementos without a thought about all the space it was taking up. Those days, however, are now in the past for many Americans as people find themselves having to shell out increasing monthly amounts to maintain access to their virtual valuables….
Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Trump Media & Technology Group said Friday that it was exploring a spin-off of Truth Social, the social media platform of choice for President Donald Trump. Truth Social could become a separate, publicly traded company following the forthcoming closing of its merger with fusion power firm TAE Technologies, according to…
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., exits Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Instagram said Thursday that it will alert parents when teens repeatedly search for suicide and self-harm terms as parent company Meta comes under scrutiny…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaves the Federal Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles after defending the company in a landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, United States, on February 19, 2026. Jon Putman | Anadolu | Getty Images The National Parent Teacher Association is splitting with Meta as the social media giant’s high-profile child-safety…
Meta CEO and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg arrives at Los Angeles Superior Court ahead of the social media trial tasked to determine whether social media giants deliberately designed their platforms to be addictive to children, in Los Angeles, on Feb. 18, 2026. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled…
This photo illustration created on Jan. 7, 2025, in Washington, D.C., shows an image of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and an image of the Meta logo. Drew Angerer | AFP | Getty Images Meta is back in court, but this time it’s a lone defendant. Opening arguments begin on Monday in a high-profile trial…
If you’ve been online the past month at all, you likely encountered at least one hyper-saturated, neon-colored throwback post captioned somewhat along the lines of: “2026 is the new 2016.” What started as a social media meme could be lighting the fire for a broader shift in the cultural zeitgeist that might also boost retail…
Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap Inc. attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference at the Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on July 9, 2025. David A. Grogan | CNBC Snap shares were up over 5 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the Snapchat-parent released fourth-quarter earnings…
