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The RESTRICT Act is more bad news for TikTok

By Sara Morrison March 29

Has TikTok made us better? Or much, much worse?

By Rebecca Jennings March 29

Utah’s social media for kids law could be coming to a state near you

By Sara Morrison March 25

The “You’re doing it wrong”-ification of TikTok

By Anna North March 24

Why advertisers aren’t coming back to Twitter

By Shirin Ghaffary March 24

3 winners and 3 losers from Congress’s TikTok hearing

By Sara Morrison and Christian Paz March 23

9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered

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

Is TikTok too big to ban?

By Sara Morrison March 21

Layoffs are bad for business

By Rani Molla March 16

What YouTube hustle gurus are really selling you

By Rebecca Jennings March 15

Are Elon’s Tweets turning car buyers against Tesla?

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka March 15

Musk’s Twitter is getting worse

By Shirin Ghaffary March 6

TikTok isn’t really limiting kids’ time on its app

By Sara Morrison March 2

The Supreme Court is befuddled by whether Twitter is liable for ISIS’s terrorism

By Ian Millhiser February 22

Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

By Shirin Ghaffary February 21

Stop using your phone number to log in

By Sara Morrison February 21

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

By Peter Kafka February 16

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

By Shirin Ghaffary February 15

Layoffs are making LinkedIn the new hot social network

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla February 10

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

By Shirin Ghaffary February 9

Behind the scenes at TikTok as it campaigns to change Americans’ hearts and minds

By Shirin Ghaffary February 2

Are we too worried about misinformation?

By Peter Kafka January 16

Good luck explaining a TikTok ban to young people

By Christian Paz December 24, 2022

Elon Musk’s future as Twitter CEO is suddenly in question

By Shirin Ghaffary December 21, 2022

The irresistible voyeurism of “day in my life” videos

By Rebecca Jennings December 21, 2022

Maybe Trump was right about TikTok

By Sara Morrison December 13, 2022

What the Twitter files don’t tell us

By Shirin Ghaffary December 9, 2022

The Twitter power users who can’t just quit

By Shirin Ghaffary December 2, 2022

Elon Musk can’t get his story straight on Twitter

By Rani Molla and Shirin Ghaffary November 22, 2022

The weird sorrow of losing Twitter

By Aja Romano November 22, 2022

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

By Rebecca Heilweil November 16, 2022

What you need to know about Elon’s inner circle at Twitter

By Shirin Ghaffary November 12, 2022

But where will we tweet?

By Rebecca Jennings November 9, 2022

Who’s winning, and losing, in the Elon Twitter era

By Shirin Ghaffary November 1, 2022

Quitting Elon

By Whizy Kim October 28, 2022

TikTok won’t stop serving me horror and death

By Sara Morrison October 26, 2022

Everybody wants to be a LinkedInfluencer

By Rebecca Jennings October 26, 2022

Instagram’s surprising strategy for bullies: Tell them to be nice

By Shirin Ghaffary October 20, 2022

The Try Guys have broken our brains

By Rebecca Jennings October 12, 2022

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

By Peter Kafka October 6, 2022