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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.

Facebook’s whistleblower tells Congress how to regulate tech

By Shirin Ghaffary October 5

Why this Facebook scandal is different

By Shirin Ghaffary October 3

The mystery behind OnlyFans’ flip-flop on porn

By Sara Morrison August 26

It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder.

By Sigal Samuel August 3

A new bill would hold Facebook responsible for Covid-19 vaccine misinformation

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rebecca Heilweil July 22

The surgeon general wants Facebook to do more to stop Covid-19 lies

By Sara Morrison July 16

Racist trolls attacked England’s soccer team. Fans fought back.

By Shirin Ghaffary July 14

How TikTok’s hate speech detection tool set off a debate about racial bias on the app

By Shirin Ghaffary July 7

Trump’s lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google will probably go nowhere

By Shirin Ghaffary July 7

The FTC’s antitrust complaint against Facebook has been dismissed — for now

By Shirin Ghaffary June 28

Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity

By Shirin Ghaffary June 26

The ever-changing pressures of running an Instagram business

By Terry Nguyen June 23

People keep finding late loved ones on Google Maps

By Rebecca Heilweil June 19

The problem with Facebook’s attempt to be more like Nextdoor

By Rebecca Heilweil June 16

What Facebook’s two-year Trump ban does and doesn’t do

By Rebecca Heilweil June 12

How Snapchat became the forgotten social platform

By Terry Nguyen June 9

Donald Trump’s new blog lasted less than a month

By Sara Morrison June 2

Michael Flynn’s coup comments show how QAnon is evolving in the Biden era

By Rebecca Heilweil June 1

Who wins Instagram giveaways? An investigation.

By Allie Jones May 27

Facebook’s empty promise of hiding “Likes”

By Rebecca Heilweil May 26

Journalists can tweet about Black Lives Matter but not about Palestine

By Peter Kafka May 26

The “TikTok intifada”

By Alex Ward May 20

Twitter is finally verifying people again

By Shirin Ghaffary May 20

How Citizen sparked a $30,000 manhunt for the wrong guy

By Sara Morrison May 18

Seems like everyone hates Instagram for kids

By Rebecca Heilweil May 18

Parler is back in Apple’s App Store, with a promise to crack down on hate speech

By Shirin Ghaffary May 17

Many Americans struggle with debt. Social media doesn’t help.

By Emily Glaser May 17

Open for a surprise: The endearing results of Twitter’s new image crop

By Aja Romano May 13

YouTube’s kids app has a rabbit hole problem

By Rebecca Heilweil May 12

Here’s just how much people have stopped talking about Trump on Facebook and Twitter

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla May 6

Trump is Facebook’s problem, again

By Shirin Ghaffary May 5

Donald Trump won’t be coming back to Facebook anytime soon

By Rebecca Heilweil May 5

Trump’s new communication tool is more like a blog

By Shirin Ghaffary May 4

Twitter makes all of its money from ads. It’s trying to change that.

By Peter Kafka May 4

How the Indian government is silencing its critics

By Shirin Ghaffary May 1

Why the new iOS update is such a big deal

By Rebecca Heilweil April 26

Mark Zuckerberg says he’s standing up for you. Yes, you.

By Peter Kafka April 19

Amy Klobuchar takes aim at 12 vaccine misinformation influencers

By Rebecca Heilweil April 19

You can finally ask Facebook’s oversight board to remove bad posts. Here’s how.

By Rebecca Heilweil April 13

YouTube says it’s better at removing videos that violate its rules, but those rules are in flux

By Rebecca Heilweil April 6

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