The Tesla CEO’s plans are grandiose—and vague.

The billionaire and self-declared “free speech absolutist” now owns 9.2 percent of the social network.

The former president’s tweets are gone. What does that mean for the record of online journalism and future historians?

A trove of internal documents reveal a company that is willfully spreading misinformation and hate in pursuit of profit and growth.

The former president has come up with a way to get back into the limelight and make a quick buck.

Mark Zuckerberg’s overhyped hybrid virtual/physical world is a distraction from the company’s real problems—and ours.

Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, represents the new, even more right-wing alternative to Silicon Valley.

The Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan is an extreme, though not entirely unique, test case for the power and the peril of these platforms.

The White House is putting money into pro-vaccine influencer campaigns while dropping the ball on essential efforts to save Americans from eviction and poverty.

The White House wants Facebook to crack down on anti-vax posts, but that would require the social media giant to transform on a fundamental level.

The former president’s class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook is a typically ham-fisted grab for power and money. It can die in the courts and still serve him well.

The popular chat app is exploding in popularity in some Middle Eastern countries. Can it keep its users safe?

Fox News’s prime-time star has long been a dull racist. Why is the mainstream media only realizing it now?

On “Fake Accounts” and the problems of millennial fiction

The party of the country club tries to embrace a new egalitarian economic agenda.

The conspiracy theory has become a theology of right-wing rebellion.

The Niskanen Center bowed to fake outrage from bad-faith right-wing trolls when it fired Will Wilkinson.

MAGA Nation’s thirst for viral clout is going to get more people killed.

The social media giants that deplatformed Trump claim to be unable to stop the spread of hate, lies, conspiracy theories, and fascistic plots.

Can the largest media platform in the world ever be made safe for democracy?