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.
Musk biographer Ashlee Vance explains why Twitter isn’t Tesla or SpaceX.
Inside Elon’s war room.
After more than a decade of living their work, tech workers are being let go.
In a world without Twitter, we lose the ability to shout into an uncaring void
Elon Musk’s layoffs at Twitter were a disaster. Silicon Valley, take note.
It’s not just Elon Musk who’s impacted by the tumultuous deal.
Meta and the rest aren’t going away, but now they’re big boring companies. Maybe that’s not a terrible thing.
Elon Musk’s former fans have lost faith in the idea of the billionaire genius.
Elon Musk owns your DMs, but he may not be Twitter’s biggest privacy risk.
Musk has tweeted a lot of ideas about how he plans to change Twitter. Here are some of the most significant ones.
For You: The worst things that have ever happened to everyone else.
And the biggest power users are turning to ghostwriters.
New features that nudge users to rethink posting mean comments or messages seem to work in some cases.
The United Kingdom is forcing Meta to sell off Giphy. Who’s next?
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to work in the metaverse. It will cost you.
The tech CEO said getting it right will be “hard.”
The billionaire might buy Twitter after all — and for once not get his way.
The world’s richest man has a $44 billion change of heart. (Maybe.)
Gonzalez v. Google is a high-stakes case about what we actually see when we go online.
Just because you can (sort of) afford to go somewhere doesn’t mean you’ll enjoy it.
Four theories on why ad sales are plummeting even as the economy is doing fine.
It looks like the boom days are fading in Big Tech, even if the cash is still flowing.
How to track which media company owns your favorite show — and why that may no longer be a media company.
The Fifth Circuit wants to put Texas Republicans in charge of social media platforms.
In a congressional hearing, new details emerged on how thousands of Twitter employees can allegedly access users’ information.
Are the tech layoffs an anomaly or a warning sign?
“I believe we’re far from reaching our full potential.”
A year after her revelations, Haugen says some things have improved but many problems remain.
Land of the Giants ends its season looking ahead to Meta’s future, with exclusive audio from inside the company.
“Influencer” has become one of the most aspirational jobs for kids and adults. What now?
A (mostly) post-pandemic update.
A telehealth company called Done wants Gen Z’s attention.
For the sixth episode of its new season, Land of the Giants tells the story of how the messaging app became incredibly popular — and powerful — around the globe.
Former Twitter employee Peiter Zatko is accusing the company of lying to just about everyone.
It’s a conspiracy theorist obsessed with Genghis Khan, and that’s not even the weird part.
For the fifth episode of its latest season, Land of the Giants examines the past, present, and future of the Facebook News Feed.
Democrats are trying to win TikTok with facts and nuance. Its algorithm rewards the opposite.