How the Kremlin Infiltrated Russia’s Facebook
VK has become a major beneficiary of Russia’s recent ban on its competitors. In March, the platform reached a record 50 million daily users, becoming the...
Elon Musk’s Twitter Plans Would Mean Less Free Speech for Many
In March 2021, a Turkish court ordered the news site Diken to remove a critical story about an ally of the country’s president, Recep Tayip Erdogan....
Who Owns 4chan?
By 2016, Nishimura announced that the costs of running 4chan were simply too high and suggested the site’s closure was imminent. In 2018, Nishimura attempted to...
Texas Cites Clarence Thomas to Defend Its Social Media Law
Florida’s law remains blocked, and the state is keenly interested in the outcome of the Texas battle. Florida on Wednesday filed a Supreme Court brief supporting...
Why It’s So Hard to Count Twitter Bots
Is the Twitter account @ElonMusk a bot? One of the best algorithms for detecting fake accounts thinks it might be, which shows how challenging it is...
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Adam Mosseri Says He Wants Big Tech to Give Up Control
So you’re saying that you could have done it earlier, but it was good to wait for blockchain because no one would have believed you otherwise?...
The Fall of Roe Would Put Big Tech in a Bind
In April 2017, Latice Fisher, a woman from Mississippi, arrived at a hospital suffering from a miscarriage. She was later indicted on a charge of second-degree...
Shanghai Is Rewriting Chinese Censorship Amid Lockdown
After the “Voices of April” video was blocked, users re-uploaded it in ways they hoped would evade the censors’ detection. The video was posted upside down,...
Twitter Insiders Fear Elon Musk Heralds a Troll Takeover
At a Twitter company meeting Monday about the decision to accept Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition offer, CEO Parag Agrawal avoided speculating on how its new...
What Elon Musk Can Learn From Mastodon—and What He Can’t
Freedom never comes for free. In Twitter’s case, the price was $44 billion, which Elon Musk will pay to liberate the platform from its responsibilities as...