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July 25, 2024
Paige Oamek
Elon Musk Exhaustingly Resurrects His Weird Feud With Mark Zuckerberg
The Tesla CEO still wants to fight.
July 19, 2024
Paige Oamek
Mark Zuckerberg Sucks Up to Trump After He Threatened to Jail Him
The Meta CEO is pathetically praising Donald Trump for his “badass” shooting response.
June 7, 2024
Talia Jane
These Desperate Far-Right Grifters Are Trying to Recruit a Militia
A new report reveals that a group of fascist has-beens is launching the most cringe militia.
March 12, 2024
Alex Shephard
The Simple Reason Trump Is Suddenly Defending TikTok
The president thinks backing the embattled short-form video app will help him and his rich friends.
February 25, 2024
Sandeep Vaheesan, Tara Pincock
The Red States Fighting the Good Fight Against Big Tech
Conservative state governments have taken an antitrust battle to the Supreme Court’s doorstep—and you should root for them to win.
February 5, 2024
Tori Otten
Meta Board Says Fake Videos Are Bad, but That Fake Biden One Is OK
Meta’s Oversight Board is allowing a fake Biden video to remain on Facebook, as a wave of disinformation is expected before the next election.
February 2, 2024
Alex Shephard
The Messenger Didn’t Stand a Chance
Yes, the founders of The Messenger were clueless. But the news site was doomed to fail no matter who was in charge.
November 15, 2023
Tori Otten
Meta Is About to Royally Screw Up The Next Election
A new report shows Meta is already helping spread election lies on Facebook and Instagram.
September 28, 2023
Molly Taft
How Iowa Wind Energy Got Sucked Into an Online Meme War
For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike supported the clean energy transition in the Hawkeye State. But recently, there’s been a surge in local opposition to projects.
July 30, 2023
Sam Venis
How the Media Lost the Traffic War to Facebook and Google
BuzzFeed and other big media brands of the social-web heyday were casualties of a gold rush controlled by Silicon Valley giants.
July 13, 2023
Alex Thomas
Hysterical Conservatives Are Accusing Meta’s Threads of Censorship
Their complaints are bad faith attempts to normalize misinformation and conspiracy theories.
July 7, 2023
Rob Pegoraro
A Judge Says Biden Can’t Scold Social Media Firms. That Makes Zero Sense.
His ruling seems more interested in ideological grievance than the First Amendment.
January 31, 2023
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump Is Boring Now
There’s no reason to worry about the former president’s imminent return to Facebook—yet.
January 25, 2023
Tori Otten
Trump’s Facebook and Instagram Accounts Will Be Reinstated, Meta Announces
Trump will be getting his accounts back two years after he was banned for inciting violence on January 6.
December 14, 2022
PodcastThe Politics of Everything
Are Twitter’s Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media?
It’s hard to imagine life without social networking apps. But maybe Elon Musk is helping us figure out how.
Audio playback is available for this article
October 28, 2022
Jason Linkins
Will Elon Musk Ruin Twitter? That’s the Wrong Question.
The Tesla mogul has taken up ownership of a company that may not have much of a future with or without him.
September 29, 2022
Megan Burbank
Abortion Activists Rely on Social Media More Than Ever After Roe—and That Has Risks
“That’s really our only pipeline to the public.”
July 26, 2022
Alex Shephard
The Sad, Quiet Vanishing of Josh Hawley
Eighteen months after he raised his fist to insurrectionists, the Missouri senator’s political project is stalled.
June 1, 2022
Matt Ford
Supreme Court Hands Social Media Giants a Win but Invites Conservatives to Try Their Luck Again
A shadow-docket decision spared Facebook and Twitter from a Texas law that would have prevented them from moderating their platforms.
April 2, 2022
Jason Linkins
The QAnon Style of Politics Is Taking Over America
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s the conspiracy itself.

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