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Technology & Media

How much longer can Google own the internet?

By Sara Morrison May 20

The Goods

Play-to-earn gaming sounds too good to be true. It probably is.

The video game industry’s clumsy flirtation with Web3 doesn’t feel like it has actual players in mind.

By Luke Winkie May 18

Social media platforms still can’t stop mass shooting videos from going viral

By Shirin Ghaffary May 17

Two GOP judges just stripped social media companies of basic First Amendment rights

By Ian Millhiser May 12

Coming soon to a streaming service near you: Ads

By Peter Kafka May 11

Trump says he’s done with Twitter. That’s hard to believe.

By Shirin Ghaffary May 10

Elon and the Twitter quitters

By Peter Kafka May 4

Even Elon Musk doesn’t know what he means by free speech

By Shirin Ghaffary April 26

Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Now what?

By Peter Kafka April 25

There are good reasons why Elon wants Twitter

By Shirin Ghaffary April 14

Is Elon Musk really going to buy Twitter for $43 billion?

By Peter Kafka April 14

Elon Musk is no free speech messiah

By Whizy Kim April 12

Reels is Facebook’s TikTok clone — and its future

By Shirin Ghaffary March 30

Why Amazon is paying nearly $9 billion for MGM and James Bond

By Peter Kafka March 17

Phones can be addictive. Sports betting, too. Now we’re combining them.

By Peter Kafka March 13

Russia continues its online censorship spree by blocking Instagram

By Shirin Ghaffary March 11

Inheriting bitcoin is harder than it sounds

By Rebecca Heilweil March 11

It took a war for Big Tech to take a side

By Peter Kafka March 9

Biden threatens Big Tech over its “national experiment” on children

By Shirin Ghaffary March 1

Big Tech’s Russia problem

By Shirin Ghaffary February 26

Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away

By Shirin Ghaffary February 23

Apple’s new Focus tool is painfully distracting

By Rani Molla February 23

Can Facebook monopolize the metaverse?

By Shirin Ghaffary and Sara Morrison February 16

Apple broke Facebook’s ad machine. Who’s going to fix it?

By Peter Kafka February 14

The most outspoken Trump supporter in Silicon Valley is leaving Facebook’s board

By Shirin Ghaffary February 7

Does banning extremists online work? It depends.

By Shirin Ghaffary February 3

Facebook is shrinking

By Shirin Ghaffary February 2

3G must die so 5G can live

By Rebecca Heilweil February 2

Web3 is the future, or a scam, or both

By Peter Kafka February 1

It’s going to take a lot more than Neil Young to change Spotify’s mind about Joe Rogan

By Peter Kafka January 27

The true cost of Amazon’s low prices

By Sara Morrison January 13

Virtual reality is reality, too

By Sean Illing January 12

The FTC’s antitrust case against Facebook is going forward after all

By Shirin Ghaffary January 11

To catch an insurrectionist

By Sara Morrison January 6

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Big Tech’s never-ending censorship loop

By Shirin Ghaffary January 4

The Elizabeth Holmes saga is far from over

By Rebecca Heilweil January 4

Big Tech’s employees are one of the biggest checks on its power

By Shirin Ghaffary December 29, 2021

Omicron is outpacing delta on social media, too

By Shirin Ghaffary December 23, 2021

One Good Thing: The only Christmas music playlist you’ll ever need is (almost) 8 days long

By Emily St. James December 21, 2021

Facebook still won’t give up Instagram for Kids

By Shirin Ghaffary December 8, 2021