communities

by JD Davidson   Nearly 400 transit programs across the state will share more than $100 million in taxpayer funds for various projects to support public transportation. Gov. Mike DeWine announced $106 million for 383 different projects…

by Kate Anderson   Religious communities in the United States and the United Kingdom were less depressed during the COVID-19 pandemic, two recent studies found. University of Cambridge researchers conducted two studies, one in the U.S.…

Some scams encourage people to upgrade their Zelle accounts to a business tier to receive money from a buyer, according to the Better Business Bureau, and come from emails mimicking Zelle, but with different domains. That upgrade appears…

If the federal government (but especially the Joe Biden edition) is behind a project or an initiative using your neighborhood as the canvas, red flag. As we learned from a Judicial…

Instagram hasn't been a photography app for a while. Sure, you can upload photos to the app; a few people might even see it. The focus of Instagram, these days, is squarely on stories and videos.And if you want a public archive of your…

These are strange days for people who care about trust and safety on platforms. Historically, many people have suggested that either more effective central moderation (a platform owner intervening directly in policing the content of the…

Days after Meta launched its new app, Threads, this month, a software engineer at the company named Ben Savage introduced himself to a developer group at the World Wide Web Consortium, a web standards body. The group, which maintains a…

Threads, Meta’s new Twitter competitor, still has that new-app smell as millions of users figure out what to post on the platform. Right now, Threads’ vibe is very “corporate afterparty hosted by Wendys,” and that’s perfectly fine! I’m…

Today is the day the internet feared.Maybe it wasn’t an active fear, not a doomsday everyone knew was coming, but still one that almost seemed inevitable: The magic of Reddit is gone. As of today, June 30, 2023, several mobile apps for…

Social media researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, got a rude awakening early last month. They were roused by 6:30 am phone calls from a colleague warning that Reddit had started blocking the…