The PSA star, deployed in the wild. Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock.com Wendy Melillo, American University School of Communication Smokey Bear turns 75 on Aug. 9. The star of the longest-running public-service advertising…
By AMANDA SEITZ and BEATRICE DUPUY Associated Press A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit,…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jelena Kecmanovic, Georgetown University (THE CONVERSATION) More than one-third of American adults view social…
MORRISTOWN, Ariz. (AP) — Grumpy Cat, whose sourpuss expression entertained millions on the internet and spawned hundreds of memes, national television commercials and even a movie, died at age 7.…
CHICAGO (AP) — A pregnant woman who had gone to a Chicago home in response to a Facebook offer of free baby clothes was strangled and her baby cut from…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters would be allowed to take selfies with their marked election ballots under a proposal that a state Senate committee considered Tuesday. Supporters of the…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jean Twenge, San Diego State University (THE CONVERSATION) Ask a teen today how she…
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who bought more than 120 boxes of Girl Scouts cookies to help the scouts escape the cold has been arrested on drug…
WAUSAU PILOT AND REVIEW A coalition of child safety and online privacy groups is urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook after records obtained by the Center for Investigative…
(CN) – The mother of a Tennessee girl sued Facebook on Wednesday, claiming the social media giant allowed her then-15-year-old daughter to be groomed and extorted by human traffickers who…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge’s decision to become Facebook friends with a woman whose child custody case he was hearing created at least the appearance of bias, a…
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social…
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Not in the Valentine’s Day spirit? A Texas zoo has a cockroach that can help. The El Paso Zoo is running a promotion called “Quit…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Firmin DeBrabander, Maryland Institute College of Art (THE CONVERSATION) Instagram users have taken to…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Elizabeth Stoycheff, Wayne State University (THE CONVERSATION) As Facebook celebrates 15 years of virtual…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University (THE CONVERSATION) It is almost too easy to bash Facebook…
(CN) – Nearly three-quarters of Facebook users don’t know how their data are being used to inform online advertisers, according to a Pew research poll released Wednesday. If you ever used…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sharing false information on Facebook is old. People over 65 and ultra conservatives shared about seven times more fake information masquerading as news on the social media…
