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The Internet That Tucker Carlson Built
There is, Droogan says, an implicit violence in the theory, particularly when it’s filtered through a US perspective. American mainstream…
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Facebook Made BuzzFeed, Then Killed It
In his memo announcing the closure of BuzzFeed’s news operations, CEO Jonah Peretti acknowledged a grave mistake: He hadn’t worked out…
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Did Instagram Just Kill Linktree?
Thirteen months ago, Linktree, the link-in-bio company that allows creators to collect links to different platforms in a single, easily…
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I’m Reddit’s CEO and Think Regulating Social Media Is Tyranny. AITA?
For the first 20 minutes of our conversation, Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, the sixth most-visited website in the US,…
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Texas Could Push Tech Platforms to Censor Posts About Abortion
Pinsof says companies facing such legal threats would have little incentive to defend the free speech of their users if…
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LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account
In the never-ending battle against online impersonation scams, the professional social media platform LinkedIn announced today a set of new…
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A Small Town Became the Center of a QAnon Storm. It’s Fighting Back
In response, dozens of people arrived in Bodegraven in spring 2021 to express their sympathy for the children they believed,…
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A Manhunt in India Left 27 Million People Without Mobile Internet
Manish Kumar runs a car rental service in the city of Jalandhar in India’s northern state of Punjab. For the…
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How Good Smile, a Major Toy Company, Kept 4chan Online
Kawakami “was afraid that Nishimura could be arrested by the police,” says Sei, author of the upcoming book The World of…
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TikTok Paid for Influencers to Attend the Pro-TikTok Rally in DC
Ahead of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew’s much-anticipated testimony in the United States House of Representatives today, the embattled tech…
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