Life can be challenging, especially as people continue to grapple with burnout, parenting and other hardships amid the coronavirus pandemic. Taking a career break, though, can feel risky. Business-oriented social network LinkedIn aims to normalize career breaks by encouraging users to highlight what they learned from these experiences.  The Microsoft-owned company released a feature on …

Twitter said Thursday it’s expanding a pilot project that allows users to add context to misleading tweets. As part of a project known as Birdwatch, users can add “notes” to tweets that contain false information. Twitter said a “small (and randomized)” group of users in the US will see these notes on tweets and be able to rate if they’re …

Reddit has created a new tab that aims to make easier to find new content, the social media company said Thursday. The Discover Tab is the first such update that Reddit has released in more than two years. Currently, Reddit users find new communities called subreddits to join by searching the platform, browsing what’s popular or stumbling upon a hyperlink …

Chatting with an AI assistant can feel frustrating, especially when the conversation doesn’t flow naturally or the assistant doesn’t understand a command. Meta, formerly Facebook, has been working on a solution. On Wednesday, the social media giant unveiled a new project that aims to improve AI assistants. Called Project CAIRaoke, the effort could also help Meta build better assistants in …

Facebook’s competition with short-form video app TikTok continues to heat up. On Tuesday, the social network said it’s releasing Reels to more than 150 countries and adding new features that allow creators to earn money through short-form video. The expansion of Reels could help Facebook attract more daily users to the main social network as it competes with apps such …

Nextdoor, a social media platform for neighborhoods, hasn’t changed much over the past few years but that could start to shift.  On Tuesday, the company unveiled new features, including the ability for users to send requests to connect with neighbors so that posts, comments and reactions from their connections are highlighted in the app’s news feed. Nextdoor users will also …

Facebook changed its name to Meta in October to reflect its focus on the creation of virtual spaces where people can work, play and socialize in what’s known as the metaverse. Now the social media giant is revamping its values. In a note to Facebook employees, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined six of the company’s updated values. The values include …

Twitter saw an increase in daily users but narrowly missed revenue expectations in the last three months of 2021, a period in which a new CEO stepped in to lead the social media company.  About 217 million people who see ads logged on to the platform daily in the fourth quarter, a 13% jump compared with the same period a year …

Reddit said Wednesday that it’s adding new features to its live audio product, a sign that the social media site is experimenting with giving users more ways to chat about different topics.  The company, which could go public as soon as March, unveiled its live audio chat product, Reddit Talk, nearly a year ago in April. Now Reddit said it’ll start highlighting …

Facebook parent Meta’s stock fell more than 26% on Thursday after disappointing fourth-quarter earnings and a drop in daily users underscored how much the company relies on social media as it develops its metaverse ambitions.  Meta shares fell $85.24 to close at $237.76. The collapse in share price wiped out almost $240 billion from the social network’s value. The fall …