Instagram's top exec grilled about his pay at social media addiction trial

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Adam Mosseri
Adam Mosseri

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Meta's Threads is letting users be the boss of their own algorithm

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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I'm a Gen Z who ditched my smartphone alarm for a $16 clock, and it completely changed my mornings

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Roya Shahidi poses with analog alarm clock in bedroom
I was sick of wasting my time on my phone in the mornings. So I got an alarm clock.

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AT&T launches a smartphone for kids that's really for parents

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AT&T debuted smartphones for children on Friday.

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Reddit CEO says the platform will thrive not on AI slop but by being a place for 'humans to talk to other humans'

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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman
Reddit CEO says the company is investing in filtering out AI slop.

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Red flags that you might be hooked on your phone, from an addiction researcher. Here's how 'dopamine fasting' can help.

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Dr Anna Lembke, an addiction researcher and host of a new MasterClass on dopamine, sitting in an armchair in a warmly lit library hall
Dr. Anna Lembke is a Stanford professor of psychiatry who specializes in addiction.

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America is banning more and more kids from social media. That's bad news for kids.

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Single like icon with a 16+ sticker.

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The Moltbook creator sees a future where every human has a bot that creates content on their own platforms

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Moltbook, a social media-like platform exclusive to AI bots, has seen a surge in bot participation.

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'Slow it down a thousand times': How the Minnesota Star Tribune covers the ICE story playing out on social media.

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A federal agent throws a teargas canister towards protesters following the fatal shooting of a protester earlier in the day, on January 24, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The federal government's deployment to Minnesota is being covered by everyone from network news to citizens with iPhones. That poses a challenge for the Minnesota Star Tribune, the state's largest paper.

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What to know about UpScrolled, the app that's surging during TikTok's chaos

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UpScrolled app going viral
UpScrolled is a new social media app gaining traction.

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