A handful of companies control the web. It doesn’t have to be that way.

The internet demands that women project desirability—at a level formerly reserved for movie stars.

The staffer behind the social media account talks about the organizing drive, which will start to get real results next week.

The Tesla mogul proved his critics wrong—by coming up with a way to wreck the social media company that they never could have expected.

A shadow-docket decision spared Facebook and Twitter from a Texas law that would have prevented them from moderating their platforms.

“The Candy House” captures the strange online experience of never losing touch with anyone.

TRUTH Social is supposed to compete with Twitter. So far, it’s been a mess. And Trump may go back to Twitter anyway. But it still could work out to be a killer grift.

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?