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Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube Endure Outages
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Did someone actually break the internet? It sorta seems like it. Users of Twitter, Facebook,…
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Tech Volunteers Rush to Save Turkey’s Earthquake Survivors
New projects are being developed all the time, as more volunteers join with ideas and take on open tasks. But…
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The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump
Ruud Schilders, admin of mastodon.world, had about 100 people on the server before the Twitter acquisition in 2022. New signups saw…
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The Taliban Can’t Stop TikTok
All of that seemed to be at risk when, in October, the Taliban announced a ban on TikTok. Disruptions to…
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How the US Could Ban TikTok in 7 Not-So-Easy Steps
Individual users would not have faced penalties for staying on TikTok, and internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon would…
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The Small but Mighty Danger of Echo Chamber Extremism
One of the top concerns when it comes to the harms of social media and political polarization in the United…
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Twitter Is a Megaphone for ‘Sudden Death’ Vaccine Conspiracies
Graham led research in November and early December that found Covid misinformation surged on Twitter after the platform lifted its ban…
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Can’t Decide What to Do About Twitter? Here Are Some Options
Not everyone is impressed with Mastodon. Some call it clunky and slow, some in the security world say it’s far from perfect,…
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Twitter Is No Longer a Creative Haven
WIRED has written frequently of late about Elon Musk’s Twitter, so forgive me for coming back to it—but for those…
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Mastodon Is Hurtling Toward a Tipping Point
Rodti MacLeary started a Mastodon instance, mas.to, in 2019. By early November 2022, it had amassed around 35,000 users. But since Elon Musk…
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