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Vox's news and analysis on the state of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and its future as a player in Big Tech.

Mark Zuckerberg says the hardest part of Meta’s “year of efficiency” is over

By Shirin Ghaffary

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Mark Zuckerberg’s not-so-secret plan to join the AI race

By Shirin Ghaffary

Tech companies are finally firing tech workers

By Rani Molla

In a leaked Q&A, Mark Zuckerberg tells employees “we’re in a different world”

By Shirin Ghaffary

Meta’s lingering layoffs enter their next phase

By Shirin Ghaffary

Fox News won. Dominion won. The rest of us lost.

By Peter Kafka

Layoffs are bad for business

By Rani Molla

Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse. What does he see next?

By Peter Kafka

Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

By Shirin Ghaffary

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Silicon Valley’s vibe shift

By Vox Staff

Think AI was impressive last year? Wait until you see what’s coming.

By Kelsey Piper

Lots of bad science still gets published. Here’s how we can change that.

By Sigal Samuel

A new Supreme Court case could fundamentally change the internet

By Ian Millhiser

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

By Ian Millhiser

Why is Meta’s new AI chatbot so bad?

By Kelsey Piper

The inside story at Meta as it moves beyond Facebook

By Samantha Oltman

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

By Ian Millhiser

The First Amendment has a Facebook problem

By Sean Illing

How technology literally changes our brains

By Ezra Klein

Thailand’s playboy king isn’t playing around

By Richard Bernstein

Sorry for Your Loss is a must-see TV show. You can only watch it on Facebook.

By Emily St. James

How to erase your personal information from the internet (it’s not impossible)

By Zoe Schiffer

More than 2 million people have RSVP’d to “storm Area 51,” in the name of memes

By Allegra Frank

Netflix’s The Great Hack explores how Cambridge Analytica sold your data during the 2016 election

By Alissa Wilkinson

Social media is rotting democracy from within

By Zack Beauchamp

Facebook’s very bad year, explained

By Emily Stewart

Mark Zuckerberg is essentially untouchable at Facebook

By Emily Stewart

YouTube, Facebook, and Apple’s ban on Alex Jones, explained

By Jane Coaston

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The Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, explained with a simple diagram

By Alvin Chang

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Lawmakers seem confused about what Facebook does — and how to fix it

By Emily Stewart

How we’re becoming slaves to technology, explained by an MIT sociologist

By Sean Illing

Technology isn’t just changing society — it’s changing what it means to be human

By Sean Illing

A Facebook billionaire is handing tons of cash to poor people in East Africa

By Dylan Matthews

Here's why you just got unfriended on Facebook

By Joseph Stromberg