YouTuber gave away $10k worth of items at AZ store
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A YouTuber who caused chaos at a Phoenix are gas station over the weekend announced he was giving away $10,000 worth of items at a discount store in Phoenix, and within seconds of that post, the place was packed. FOX 10's Ellen McNamara has more.

Facebook fact-checking to be replaced with X-style community notes

Facebook is ending its fact-checking program and replacing it with a similar model used on Elon Musk’s X. Here’s what to know.

New 2025 laws hit hot topics from AI in movies to rapid-fire guns

Artificial intelligence. Abortion. Guns. Marijuana. Minimum wages. Name a hot topic, and chances are good there’s a new law about it taking effect in 2025 in one state or another.

US Supreme Court decides to hear case over TikTok ban
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Fears of stolen data being sent to the Chinese Communist Party are at the root of why the Supreme Court will hear arguments to determine if banning the popular social media app TikTok is necessary.

TikTok asks SCOTUS to block potential US ban

TikTok has asked the Supreme Court to block a federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agrees to sell it.

Nearly half of US teens say they are online ‘almost constantly,’ survey finds

Despite the increasing evidence of the negative impacts constant social media consumption has on young people’s mental health, nearly half say they are online “almost constantly."

Meta apologizes for Facebook, Instagram outages

Meta issued an apology after a widespread outage affected Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger on Wednesday.

Wikipedia's most-viewed articles in 2024

Politics dominated Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles this year, but here’s a look at what else people were interested in reading about in 2024.

Federal court upholds TikTok 'sale or ban' law
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A federal appeals court has upheld a law that requires the social media platform TikTok to either break ties with its parent company that is based in the People's Republic of China, or be banned by mid-January 2025.

U.S. officials warn against unsecured texting
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Leaders have labeled it a massive espionage campaign affecting dozens of countries. U.S. officials say hackers compromised the networks of multiple communication companies. Now, they are suggesting Americans use encrypted messaging apps as a precaution. FOX 10?s Lauren Clark spoke to experts about this and breaks it down for us.

How the spread of misinformation happens
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FOX 10's Ellen McNamara is talking with Scott Baradell about the spread of misinformation on social media. He says when someone comes across news they don't like online and it outrages them, it's more likely they'll share it, despite it being real or not.

Australia is about to ban social media for anyone under 16; how it will work

The law would fine social media platforms like TikTok, Facebook, X, and Instagram for failing to stop children younger than 16 years old from having accounts.

Why are people 'holding space' for 'Defying Gravity’, and what does that even mean?

As if “Wicked” hasn’t already taken over the internet enough, a moment from one of the stars’ press interviews has turned into the latest meme. Here’s an explainer.

Very demure: Dictionary.com chooses 2024 Word of the Year

Dictionary.com has chosen its 2024 Word of the Year – and it’s from that massive TikTok trend this summer.

Is Reddit down? Outage reported by social media users

There was a spike of more than 46,000 error reports Wednesday afternoon for Reddit, according to Downdetector.