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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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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won’t ‘Enshittify the Network With Ads’
Our goal is to combine both approaches—to run a moderation service that tries to provide a baseline and to also…
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X Banned the Account of a Major Critic. Now He’s Taking It to Court
X has banned the account of a prominent critic after he published data that he claims exposed the site’s embrace…
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TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe
Yet the threat of a ban constantly looms over the app, in part because of those longstanding Chinese connections. Although…
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This Psychologist Wants To Vaccinate You Against Fake News
For Sander van der Linden, misinformation is personal. As a child in the Netherlands, the University of Cambridge social psychologist…
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Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
Days after Meta launched its new app, Threads, this month, a software engineer at the company named Ben Savage introduced…
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How to Install Threads on Your Windows Desktop
After all the press for Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk potentially taking it to each other in the octagon, the…
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How Threads Could Kill Twitter
And, after months of chaos at Twitter, many people are looking for something different—but are yet to commit to one…
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The US Is Exporting Anti-LGBTQ Hate Online | WIRED
About once a fortnight, David Ermes gets an email from a journalist or fact checker along the lines of “Boys…
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How to Polish Your LinkedIn Profile | WIRED
If you’re looking to get hired, giving your LinkedIn profile some love should be on your to-do list. It’s likely…
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