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Social Media

From Facebook to Twitter to YouTube, social media platforms are transforming communication and internet culture, even as they raise privacy concerns for users.

The Supreme Court showdown over social media “censorship,” explained

By Ian Millhiser September 22

Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do

By A.W. Ohlheiser September 21

How Covid misinformation stayed one step ahead of Facebook

By A.W. Ohlheiser September 16

TikTok’s shopping push left my For You page in shambles

By A.W. Ohlheiser September 14

Even Elon Musk can’t fully wreck Twitter’s one great superpower

By Peter Kafka August 24

Why TikTokers are drinking laundry detergent

By A.W. Ohlheiser July 29

The weird sorrow of losing Twitter

By Aja Romano July 24

Bye-bye birdie: Twitter is X now

By Sara Morrison July 24

The Biden administration is allowed to talk to social media platforms again — for now

By Sara Morrison July 14

Elon Musk is just throwing money at popular Twitter users now

By Shirin Ghaffary July 14

Twitter is dying. Policing women’s bodies is keeping it alive.

By Jonquilyn Hill July 11

Meta is finally having its moment with the Twitter alternative Threads

By Shirin Ghaffary July 10

Threads won’t kill Twitter if it’s boring

By Rebecca Jennings July 7

What you need to know about Threads, Instagram’s new Twitter killer app

By Shirin Ghaffary July 5

TikTok is confusing by design

By Sara Morrison July 5

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

The ad industry is going all-in on AI

By Shirin Ghaffary June 29

Welcome to the era of the trans it-girl

By Rebecca Jennings June 28

Jesse Watters, Fox News’s new Tucker Carlson, explained

By Sara Morrison June 26

The ongoing and increasingly weird Reddit blackout, explained

By Sara Morrison June 20

Beatrix Potter, the unlikely hero of the anti-hustle culture movement

By Rebecca Jennings June 14

How a carmaker’s mistake created the ultimate internet challenge

By Sara Morrison June 8

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

What will stop AI from flooding the internet with fake images?

By Shirin Ghaffary June 3

Should we know where our friends are at all times?

By Rebecca Jennings May 31

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

By Shirin Ghaffary May 25

Elon Musk tried a big presidential broadcast event and Twitter broke

By Shirin Ghaffary May 24

Montana’s TikTok ban — and the legal challenge of it — explained

By Li Zhou May 23

President Biden’s new executive action is all about children and the internet

By Sara Morrison May 23

9 questions about the attempts to ban TikTok, answered

By Sara Morrison, Christian Paz, and 1 more May 23

Elon Musk won’t stop tweeting his way into trouble

By Shirin Ghaffary May 20

Instagram’s co-founder explains why he’s starting over

By Shirin Ghaffary May 19

Who is Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk’s pick for new Twitter CEO?

By Shirin Ghaffary May 12

Tucker Carlson’s TV-to-Twitter move could actually pay off

By Peter Kafka May 11

When did we get so obsessed with unique baby names?

By Rebecca Jennings May 3

What is Bluesky, and why is everyone on Twitter talking about it?

By Shirin Ghaffary April 29

Elon’s blue check disaster is getting worse

By Shirin Ghaffary April 25

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

By Shirin Ghaffary April 20

Meta’s lingering layoffs enter their next phase

By Shirin Ghaffary April 19

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

By Peter Kafka April 19

Is Twitter finally dying?

By Shirin Ghaffary April 15

Trump is no longer the social media king

By Shirin Ghaffary April 5

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