Truth Social, Trump's social media app, launches a year after Twitter ban

Former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social app was offered Monday on the Apple App store to a limited number of subscribers who preordered.

How to stop social media from ruining your relationships
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Social media makes it easier to bring us all together, but it could also be making it harder to maintain your relationships. The Love Engineer, Alex Merritt, joined Good Day to talk about how to stop social media from ruining bonds with others.

Facebook's daily active users fall for 1st time in its history

Facebook’s fourth-quarter earnings report shared this week revealed a drop in its daily active users, a first in its history.

34 years later, Susan Swedell's disappearance still a mystery
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Susan Swedell was last seen on this day in Lake Elmo, Minnesota 34 years ago. The Washington County Sheriff's Department is trying a new approach on social media to solve the mystery of what happened.

‘Betty White Challenge’ to support Minnesota animal shelters

After dying on Dec. 31, 2021, at the age of 99, the 'Betty White Challenge' has taken to social media to inspire people to donate to local animal shelters.

Instagram testing chronological feed, other features

Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, announced the company is testing out new ways for users to control what they see on their feed and hopes to launch the “full experience” during the first half of 2022.

The most memorable memes of 2021 explained

Remember Bernie Sanders’ mittens? Here are some of the most memorable internet memes of 2021 and a look at where they originated.

Minnesota, Wisconsin school districts cancel classes Friday over TikTok challenge

Police say they arrested two juveniles late Thursday evening after investigating threats made to Brainerd Public Schools, following a TikTok challenge that prompted schools across the country to close Friday.

Instagram unveils new teen safety tools ahead of congressional hearing

Instagram is rolling out new features, including one that urges teens to take breaks from the app, amid scrutiny on the Facebook-owned platform.

Nearly 1,000 Facebook, Instagram accounts deactivated over COVID-19 misinformation

In total, Meta deleted 979 accounts, groups and pages across its platforms last month, most of which were found to belong to a sprawling network from China trying to spread COVID-19 misinformation.

New TikTok 'door-kicking' craze had law enforcement watching

A new video craze sweeping TikTok has law enforcement watching. It's the "door kicking" challenge, in which young people kick someone's door as a popular Kesha song plays, and then run away.

'Whole of society' effort needed to fight misinformation: Aspen Institute

A new report says misinformation is hurting efforts to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges, be it climate change, COVID-19 or political polarization.

Twitter rolls out redesigned warning labels to combat misinformation

The labels, which the company has been testing since July, are an update from those Twitter used for election misinformation before and after the 2020 presidential contest.

Mom says TikTok laundry hack may have set her dryer on fire: 'Lucky to be alive'

Hailee Clarke from the U.K. posted a video to TikTok this month saying a fire started inside her dryer the same night she tried a popular laundry hack.

Don’t change outgoing voicemail if lost, stranded: Rescue team responds to viral post

After a post on Facebook advising any lost hikers or stranded motorists to change their outgoing voicemail to reveal their locations should their phones die or lose signal went viral, a nonprofit rescue team from Colorado is pointing out why that’s not a good idea.

Facebook Papers: Company froze as anti-vaccine comments swarmed users

As false claims about vaccine safety threatened to undermine COVID-19 response, documents reveal that Facebook took a full month to implement changes.

Facebook whistleblower says platform making online hate worse

Ex-Facebook data scientist turned whistleblower Frances Haugen told U.K. lawmakers Monday that the company is making online hate and extremism worse.

Trump's social media platform given 30 days to comply with licensing requirements

Trump's TRUTH Social platform has 30 days to comply with licensing requirements or it risks seeing its rights and permissions in the software automatically and permanently terminated.