Technology & Media

A Twitter trial would expose Elon Musk to scrutiny. Buying Twitter might help him avoid it.

By Whizy Kim October 6

Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter again, spam bots and all

By Peter Kafka October 6

This next-generation video game requires a prescription

By Rebecca Heilweil October 6

A new Supreme Court case could fundamentally change the internet

By Ian Millhiser October 6

Elon Musk can’t fix Twitter because no one can

By Peter Kafka October 5

The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be

By Rebecca Jennings October 5

This year’s physics Nobel Prize went to pioneers in quantum tech. Here’s how their work could change the world.

By Bryan Walsh October 4

The mysterious ad slump of 2022

By Peter Kafka September 28

“The party is over”: How Meta and Google are using recession fears to clean house

By Shirin Ghaffary September 22

Who owns what in Big Media today

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka September 21

Two Republican judges just let Texas seize control of Twitter and Facebook

By Ian Millhiser September 19

The Twitter whistleblower made a convincing case that Twitter is a mess

By Shirin Ghaffary September 13

What the high-profile layoffs at Snap, Netflix, and other companies could mean for the economy

By Madeleine Ngo September 12

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel isn’t ready to sell his company

By Shirin Ghaffary September 7

Why Disney didn’t buy Twitter

By Peter Kafka September 7

Google CEO Sundar Pichai swears his company has real competition

By Shirin Ghaffary September 6

Meta hasn’t “really learned the right lesson,” whistleblower Frances Haugen says

By Sara Morrison and Shirin Ghaffary September 6

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest bet

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath August 31

Where we’re spending our screentime, in 3 charts

By Peter Kafka and Rani Molla August 31

Meet the billionaire who loves Fox News and owns a piece of CNN

By Peter Kafka August 26

How India runs on WhatsApp

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath August 24

Twitter’s whistleblower problem is way bigger than Elon Musk’s bot complaints

By Sara Morrison August 23

Why is Meta’s new AI chatbot so bad?

By Kelsey Piper August 21

This is Facebook’s plan to be cool again

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath August 17

How Trump changed Facebook

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath August 10

How Facebook helped Axios sell for $500 million

By Peter Kafka August 9

Instagram is once again in its flop era

By Rebecca Jennings August 3

The Facebookification of Instagram

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath July 27

Google’s plan to get rid of cookies (still) isn’t going well

By Sara Morrison July 27

We’re one step closer to robots doing all our housework

By Rebecca Heilweil July 27

How the “Move Fast” era of Facebook led to one of its biggest scandals

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath July 20

Here’s what Netflix execs think about the Netflix problem

By Peter Kafka July 20

Elon Musk fans can’t handle the truth

By Whizy Kim July 13

How the News Feed turned Facebook into a juggernaut

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath July 13

The inside story at Meta as it moves beyond Facebook

By Samantha Oltman July 13

TikTok is full of shady secret advertisements

By Sara Morrison July 11

Meta top executive Nick Clegg explains Facebook’s futuristic plans for the metaverse

By Shirin Ghaffary July 1

Here’s why Netflix made you wait a month to watch the rest of Stranger Things

By Peter Kafka and Rani Molla June 29

Elon Musk the Twitter celebrity vs. Elon Musk the boss

By Whizy Kim June 22

It’s TikTok’s world. Can TV live in it?

By Peter Kafka June 22