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

Layoffs are bad for business

By Rani Molla

9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered

By Sara Morrison, Christian Paz, and 1 more

What YouTube hustle gurus are really selling you

By Rebecca Jennings

Are Elon’s Tweets turning car buyers against Tesla?

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka

TikTok’s biggest threat isn’t a ban at all

By Sara Morrison

Musk’s Twitter is getting worse

By Shirin Ghaffary

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

By Sara Morrison

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

By Ian Millhiser

Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

By Shirin Ghaffary

Stop using your phone number to log in

By Sara Morrison

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

By Peter Kafka

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

Layoffs are making LinkedIn the new hot social network

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

Are we too worried about misinformation?

By Peter Kafka

Good luck explaining a TikTok ban to young people

By Christian Paz

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

The irresistible voyeurism of “day in my life” videos

By Rebecca Jennings

Maybe Trump was right about TikTok

By Sara Morrison

What the Twitter files don’t tell us

By Shirin Ghaffary

The Twitter power users who can’t just quit

By Shirin Ghaffary

Elon Musk can’t get his story straight on Twitter

By Rani Molla and Shirin Ghaffary

The weird sorrow of losing Twitter

By Aja Romano

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

By Rebecca Heilweil

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

But where will we tweet?

By Rebecca Jennings

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

Quitting Elon

By Whizy Kim

TikTok won’t stop serving me horror and death

By Sara Morrison

Everybody wants to be a LinkedInfluencer

By Rebecca Jennings

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

The Try Guys have broken our brains

By Rebecca Jennings

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

By Peter Kafka

A new Supreme Court case could fundamentally change the internet

By Ian Millhiser

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

By Rebecca Jennings

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

By Ian Millhiser

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

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

By Sara Morrison