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Jack Dorsey Was the Soul of Twitter
Jack Dorsey was glum. It was 2009, and we were in Baghdad, among a group of Silicon Valley movers and…
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TikTok’s Next Big Move? To Become Facebook
The way ByteDance does that could be by following in the footsteps of Facebook. After establishing a key base through…
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How Facebook Could Break Free From the Engagement Trap
So what’s a better way to think about addressing these problems from a design perspective? This question is one of…
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Twitter Blue Is for People Who Love Reading the News
Should you get Twitter Blue? That depends on whether you consider yourself a “power user.” The platform’s new subscription service,…
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Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed
What do Alex Berenson, Bari Weiss, and Glenn Greenwald have in common? They’ve all railed against being deplatformed—be it a…
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RE:WIRED 2021: Prince Harry Says He ‘Warned’ Jack Dorsey Before the Capitol Riots
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, revealed at the RE:WIRED conference today that he had emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey…
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Facebook’s Name Change Goes Meta
From Wall Street to Main Street to Capitol Hill, everyone is mad at Facebook. The company has been under fire…
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China Targets Extreme Internet Fandoms in a New Crackdown
At its most extreme, the devotion to a celebrity can be “like an online addiction,” says Fung. In a 2019…
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Facebook Is Everywhere; Its Moderation Is Nowhere Close
Facebook launched support for Arabic in 2009 and scored a hit. Soon after, the service won plaudits for helping the…
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I Used Facebook Without the Algorithm, and You Can Too
Facebook is broken, says whistleblower Frances Haugen, who worked on the company’s civic integrity team. In testimony before Congress and…
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