Not so much. The tech industry has had a rough year, and social media companies have been hit especially hard. The stock price of Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has plummeted more than 60 percent.

McLeod has observed the rise of social media over the last few decades ... fellow family members to college students attempting to fit in with the status quo. By the mid-2010s, Facebook’s reputation ...

Social media has always been ... to efficiently gain access to a larger network and accrue status inside it. The classic example is Facebook, which initially tied platform access to a Harvard ...

So we’ve seen firsthand how well it has worked to rely entirely on self-regulation for social media companies to moderate their content. The verdict: not well at all. The status quo of social ...