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The synthetic social network is coming

Sep 29|

How Google taught AI to doubt itself

Sep 20|

Nine wild details from the new Elon Musk biography

Sep 13|

How Google plans to win its antitrust trial

Sep 8|

Meta’s Oversight Board is too slow to matter

Aug 30|

Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter

Aug 25|

Elon Musk keeps getting creepier

Aug 15|

It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk

Aug 8|

How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk

Aug 4|

How Facebook does (and doesn’t) shape political views

Jul 28|

Five reasons Threads could still go the distance

Jul 18|

Meta unspools Threads

Jul 6|

Meta’s Nick Clegg on how AI is reshaping the feed

Jun 30|

What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout

Jun 21|

How Reddit set itself up for a fall

Jun 13|

How social networks gave up on 2020 election lies

Jun 7|

Don’t judge Apple’s VR headset too soon

Jun 2|

The surgeon general’s wake-up call for social networks

May 24|

Why you can’t trust Twitter’s encrypted DMs

and Zoe Schiffer

May 16|

How Google is making up for lost time

May 12|

How Bluesky should capitalize on its viral success

May 2|

How BeReal missed its moment

Apr 26|

Can Snap snap back?

Apr 21|

How two insurgents are taking on Twitter

Apr 14|

Why journalists can’t quit Twitter

Apr 5|

Why the AI industry could stand to slow down a little

Mar 31|

How TikTok failed to make the case for itself

Mar 24|

Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly

and Casey Newton

Mar 14|

How a single engineer brought down Twitter

and Casey Newton

Mar 6|

Who’s actually getting rich off of AI?

Mar 3|

Twitter shut off its internal Slack, and now ‘everyone is barely working’

and Zoe Schiffer

Feb 24|

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

After his Super Bowl tweet did worse numbers than President Biden’s, Twitter’s CEO ordered major changes to the algorithm.

and Casey Newton

Feb 15|

Elon Musk’s reach on Twitter is dropping — he just fired a top engineer over it

and Casey Newton

Feb 9|

Why Google is facing its most serious antitrust challenge to date

Jan 25|

How ‘radioactive data’ could help reveal malicious AIs

Jan 13|

Why TikTok’s future has never been so cloudy

Jan 4|

13 predictions for tech platforms in 2023

Dec 16, 2022|

The deep inequalities of Facebook’s secretive cross-check moderation program

Dec 7, 2022|

Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Elon Musk

and Zoe Schiffer

Nov 29, 2022|

The only constant at Elon Musk’s Twitter is chaos

and Zoe Schiffer

Nov 22, 2022|

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