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Reddit Users Boycott X Links After Elon Musk’s Gesture at Inaugural Event
Many Reddit users are boycotting the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, after Elon Musk twice made a gesture during President…
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Is Social Media More Like Cigarettes or Junk Food?
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 1881, James Bonsack patented an automated…
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Trump Signs Executive Order in Attempt to Delay TikTok Ban
President Trump signed an executive order on Monday to delay enforcing a federal ban of TikTok for 75 days, even though the law took…
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TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet
The Chinese social media app RedNote is full of cute, heartwarming moments after about 500,000 American users fled to it last week to…
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TikTok Starts Working Again After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban
TikTok flickered back to life in the United States on Sunday after President-elect Donald J. Trump said that he would issue an executive…
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Posts falsely claim Ethiopia overtook Nigeria to become Africa’s fourth-largest economy
Nigeria’s economy has struggled in recent years due to lower oil prices and tough economic reforms, resulting in a severe cost-of-living…
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What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok
For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 2013, I wrote a blog post titled “Why I Never Joined…
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Would you get your childhood vaccines again? This woman did
A Texas woman has described the life-threatening circumstances that led to her getting all of her childhood vaccinations again. There has…
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4 Takeaways From the Arguments Before the Supreme Court in the TikTok Case
The Supreme Court on Friday grappled over a law that could determine the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular social media platform that has…
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era
Mark Zuckerberg kept the circle of people who knew his thinking small. Last month, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, tapped a…
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Can You Still Use TikTok if It’s Banned? What Users Should Know About the App.
The monthslong fight by legislators to ban the social media app TikTok in the United States is expected to come to a head on Friday when…
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A woman says her boyfriend tricked her into a wedding, convincing her it was a prank for Instagram
A couple in Australia had their marriage annulled after the bride said she didn't genuinely consent. The woman said she believed the…
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Uganda's controversial tweeting general quits X
Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, has announced that he has quit X, where he has been posting…
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Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Could Shut Down TikTok
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday on the fate of TikTok, the enormously popular video app that Congress says poses a looming…
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TikTok Case Before Supreme Court Pits National Security Against Free Speech
When the Supreme Court hears arguments on Friday over whether protecting national security requires TikTok to be sold or closed, the…
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TikTok Creators and Brands Are Bracing for a Potential Ban
The impending disappearance of TikTok, one of the most popular social media apps in the United States, has sent marketers, agencies and…
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Nikki Glaser scores big win after hosting Golden Globes
Comedian Nikki Glaser has won widespread acclaim for hosting Sunday's 82nd Golden Globe Awards—and she's also benefitting in a big way on…
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As Elon Musk Embraces the Far Right, Some of Its Leaders Reject Him
When Laura Loomer, a far-right activist, regained control of her Twitter account in late 2022, she knew whom to praise for her…
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Will Meta’s Plan to End Fact Checking Work Politically?
Following the political winds Meta’s bombshell announcement on Tuesday that it would end its fact-checking program was widely read as a…
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Facebook Shifts Content Moderation to Its Users. Are You Ready?
Meta would like to introduce its next fact-checker — the one who will spot falsehoods, pen convincing corrections and warn others about…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Political Evolution, From Apologies to No More Apologies
In November 2016, as Facebook was being blamed for a torrent of fake news and conspiracy theories swirling around the first election of…
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Meta Drops Rules Protecting LGBTQ Community as Part of Content Moderation Overhaul
For years, social media companies made it a top priority to combat hate speech. But in recent months, they have waffled over how to tackle…
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As Trump Praises Meta Decision, Tech Watchdogs Warn of Surge in Disinformation
While Republicans largely cheered Meta’s announcement on Tuesday that it would effectively end its fact-checking program, several tech…
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Mark Zuckerberg Says Meta Fact-Checkers Were the Problem. Fact-Checkers Rule That False.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, blamed the company’s fact-checking partners for some of Facebook’s moderation issues, saying in a…