Social Media
From Facebook to Twitter to YouTube, social media platforms are transforming communication and internet culture, even as they raise privacy concerns for users.
Teens can still click right on through the new screen time limit.
This is what happens when important laws make no sense.
You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. Now Meta and Twitter want your money, too.
Phone numbers were never meant to protect or identify us, but we use them to do that all the time. We shouldn’t.
One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google’s earliest employees — is leaving the company.
Though the company’s stock jumped, it’s still facing big challenges from Apple, TikTok, and younger users.
Vulnerability is having a moment on the platform as mass layoffs hit the tech industry.
The former president and promoter of the “big lie” is Facebook’s problem again.
As TikTok faces a potential ban and growing national security concerns, a few politicians are posting through the turmoil.
What can Napster tell us about the future?
Millions spent on lobbyists, a billion spent on safeguards. Will it be enough to stay in the United States?
What I learned from a tour of the company’s new transparency and accountability center.
TikTokers are finding new ways to, in their words, “be delusional.”
Facebook, Google, and Amazon are trying to get their groove back.
Meet the influencers who won’t “let people enjoy things.”
“Resist trying to make things better”: A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos.
Recode obtained a recording of a Mark Zuckerberg Q&A and internal survey results that show how Meta’s struggles are impacting staff.
Matty Healy, for when you’re ready to graduate from Harry Styles.
We bid adieu to moonshots, Portals, and ad-free Netflix.
Consensus is building in Washington that the most popular social media app among teenagers is a national security risk. How do you explain that to the app’s users?
Musk asked Twitter users if he should step down. A majority of them said yes.
These are the days of our lives.
But we don’t know when, or who will replace him.
The omnibus spending bill includes a limited ban that’s mostly symbolic.
Twitter Blue is back, and this time it’s also gold, gray, square, and passive-aggressive.
In an internal memo, a top exec says a “perfect storm of skepticism” won’t deter Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse plans.
The move is connected to a debate over an account that tracked the whereabouts of Elon Musk’s jet.
It’s not about doxxing. It’s about Elon.
Twitter’s previous management made some controversial political decisions. Some of them haven’t held up.
No matter who controls Congress, TikTok’s in trouble.
The documents are ammo for conservatives, even if they lack crucial context.
Twitter never fulfilled its promise. Don’t expect its current crop of replacements to, either.
Under Elon Musk’s leadership, journalists have even more of a love-hate relationship with the platform.
Elon Musk’s disaster month at Twitter has come to a close. Let’s discuss.
Why do we keep believing things that are too good to be true?
All the times Twitter’s Chief Flip-Flopper has gone back on his word.
But no new tweets from Trump.
Why Big Tech’s glory days are coming to a close.
Over 100 pages of documents show how the space agency handles social media and discussions about Ukraine.
The Twitter CEO has repeatedly contradicted his own “free speech” values.