Influencers — those obnoxious (and increasingly) political hype beasts who’ve defined much of internet life in the last decade — may finally be going the way of the Apple Watch: once a flashy ...

Hundreds of websites claim to sell Instagram followers. Most don’t. They sell what are known as “fake followers,” which do ...

Pritam Juzar Kothawala, a makeup artist, shared videos on her Instagram account, describing them as harmless skits meant for ...

Their slogan, a bold statement of “when fake medical advice on TikTok turns against those who share it” is a disruptive remedy to a growing epidemic of false information across social media platforms.

The fake ads ran over the course of ... the advertisements featuring pets to human influencers. The pet posts reached 18,224 viewers on Instagram versus 17,613 for the ads featuring people and ...