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Meta Kills a Crucial Transparency Tool At the Worst Possible Time
Earlier this month, Meta announced that it would be shutting down CrowdTangle, the social media monitoring and transparency tool that…
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Reddit Stock Surges on Its First Day of Trading
A big concern ahead of the public listing was that Reddit, the platform that gave birth to the memestocks of…
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Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name
Glassdoor has a history of working to keep its users’ identities private, but there are concerns about these identity changes.…
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Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears
The amount of time Reddit reports that users spend with its service hasn’t significantly budged either. In September 2021, the…
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Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others for AI projects could…
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Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO?
Alyssa Videlock was 11 years old when she started searching for people like her on the internet. What she found,…
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Your Kid May Already Be Watching AI-Generated Videos on YouTube
Neither Yes! Neo nor Super Crazy Kids responded to WIRED’s request for comment. Few Limits Yes! Neo, Super Crazy Kids,…
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This Senator Wants to Know What Meta and TikTok Are Doing About Parent-Run Girl Influencer Accounts
In January, the CEOs of X, TikTok, Meta, Snap, and Discord testified in front of a congressional committee about child…
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How to Turn Off Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication Change
Meta changed how two-factor authentication works for Facebook and Instagram last year. You might have received notifications about this, but…
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Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against a Group That Found Hate Speech on X Isn’t Going Well
Soon after Elon Musk took control of Twitter, now called X, the platform faced a massive problem: Advertisers were fleeing.…
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