Social media is supposed to connect us. But endless scrolling through posts leaves many feeling disconnected. Two people grasp hands in solidarity. Illustration by News Decoder. This article, by high school student Paige Pointer was produced out of News Decoder’s...
‘Bait-and-switch’ internet scams target us with emotionally-charged posts. But do you know what your friends see when you share those posts with your network? A internet scam post on a phone shows the photo of a generic child available on Canva. (Illustration by News...
Algorithms that track the terms we plug into search engines determine what appears on the pages we pull up. Why does that feel so creepy? SEO concept by Anya Berkut/Getty Images More and more, we seem to get ads related to topics we plug into a search engine — long...