X Isn’t a Super App. It’s Just Twitter
The company also has a fundamental trust issue. In December, it leaked its own internal documents to selected journalists—branding it as the “Twitter Files,” a move...
It’s Getting Harder for the Government to Secretly Flag Your Social Posts
Wrote Doughty, “Defendants ‘significantly encouraged’ the social-media companies to such extent that the decisions (of the companies) should be deemed to be the decisions of the...
Reddit Is Already on the Rebound
Social media researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey, got a rude awakening early last month. They were roused by 6:30 am...
Instagram Is Removing Sex-Positive Accounts Without Warning
On the morning of June 22, Karl Verboten tried to log into the Instagram account for Klub Verboten, his London kink space and fortnightly party, but...
Wagner Mutiny Puts Russia’s Military Bloggers on a Razor’s Edge
On other parts of the app, silence spread through normally vocal accounts. That applied to more conventional propagandists, such as Margarita Simonyan, editor of state TV...
Elon Musk Seeks Support Against Rules on Free Speech Online
When Elon Musk arrived at VivaTech, a leading technology conference in France, his presence had an immediate effect, as event founder Maurice Levy of Publicis Groupe...
The US Is Exporting Anti-LGBTQ Hate Online
“The weight of this moral panic is being put into legislation that is affecting people across the United States and the world,” says Drennan. “That’s really...
TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content
“There was no understanding that [the law] would even be enforced in Texas at the time because it was appealed up to the Supreme Court,” she...
There Will Never Be Another Twitter
Gideon: I find it so much work to get started on a new platform, you know, to follow people and figure out what I want to...
How to Polish Your LinkedIn Profile
If you’re looking to get hired, giving your LinkedIn profile some love should be on your to-do list. It’s likely that potential recruiters are going to...