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Layoffs are bad for business

By Rani Molla

Leaked memo: Meta executive warns employees they’re still “at the whim of Apple”

By Shirin Ghaffary

It’s official. Trump is back on Facebook and Instagram.

By Shirin Ghaffary

The AI boom is here, and so are the lawsuits

By Peter Kafka

Your favorite tech giant wants you to know it’s a startup again

By Rani Molla and Shirin Ghaffary

Are we too worried about misinformation?

By Peter Kafka

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What Meta employees really think about their company’s brutal year

Recode obtained a recording of a Mark Zuckerberg Q&A and internal survey results that show how Meta’s struggles are impacting staff.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Big Tech’s Big Flops of 2022

By Sara Morrison

Meta is facing the test of its lifetime

By Shirin Ghaffary

Stop taking billionaires at their word

By Rebecca Jennings

Silicon Valley layoffs aren’t just a cost-cutting measure. They’re a culture reset.

By Amanda Lewellyn

NASA’s rules for astronaut posting: No TikTok, don’t embarrass us

By Rebecca Heilweil

Silicon Valley layoffs are a reminder that your job won’t love you back

By Rani Molla

The Big Tech boom is over and Wall Street knows it

By Peter Kafka

Silicon Valley is starting to cave to European regulators

By Sara Morrison

The $1,500 ticket to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse

By Shirin Ghaffary

Legs are finally coming to Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse

By Shirin Ghaffary

 The mysterious ad slump of 2022

By Peter Kafka

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

Who owns what in Big Media today

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka

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

By Sara Morrison and Shirin Ghaffary

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest bet

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath

Where we’re spending our screentime, in 3 charts

By Peter Kafka and Rani Molla

How India runs on WhatsApp

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath

Why is Meta’s new AI chatbot so bad?

By Kelsey Piper

This is Facebook’s plan to be cool again

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath

How Trump changed Facebook

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath

How Facebook helped Axios sell for $500 million

By Peter Kafka

Instagram is once again in its flop era

By Rebecca Jennings

The Facebookification of Instagram

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath

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

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath

How the News Feed turned Facebook into a juggernaut

By Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Heath

The inside story at Meta as it moves beyond Facebook

By Samantha Oltman

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

Meta is getting data about you from some surprising places

By Sara Morrison

Leaked transcript: What Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees about Sheryl Sandberg’s exit

By Shirin Ghaffary

Sheryl Sandberg’s mixed legacy at Meta

By Shirin Ghaffary

Florida’s social media free speech law has been blocked for likely violating free speech laws

By Sara Morrison

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

The abortion provider that Republicans are struggling to stop

By Rachel M. Cohen