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January 15, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Elon Musk Faces Fresh Heap of Legal Trouble Over Twitter
Musk is facing a new lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
January 14, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Will Have a Shocking Entourage at His Inauguration
Donald Trump has fully embraced tech billionaires this presidency.
November 8, 2024
Timothy Noah
Dump Twitter
If you stick with Elon Musk, you’re complicit.
September 5, 2024
Alex Shephard
Elon Musk Is an Anti-Harris Misinformation Machine—but a Laughable One
Yes, he’s gotten more than a billion views in pushing his MAGA propaganda. But it’s inept and ineffective.
April 24, 2024
Andre Pagliarini
Elon Musk Is Now Meddling in Brazil’s Democracy, Too
X’s chief troll is inciting a “censorship” moral panic in Brazil, undermining the democratically elected government’s efforts to squash far-right extremism.
March 22, 2024
Heather Souvaine Horn
The Bleak Backdrop to the Kate Middleton Frenzy
Much like “covfefe” in 2017, the internet is converging on a story that feels safer than everything else that’s going on.
March 21, 2024
Greg Sargent
Elon Musk Pushes a Vile, Toxic Hate Video—and Exposes His Own Scam
The great replacement theory video that Musk pinned to the top of his feed is sick. And it shows that he’s turning X into a safe space for far-right propaganda.
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 12, 2024
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Elon Musk’s Unhinged Pro-MAGA Tweets Expose Tech Oligarchy’s Dark Side
A new class of tech barons hopes to create a flourishing information space for “red-pilled” far-right ideologies, and the billionaire Musk is their model leader.
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.
February 1, 2024
Melissa Gira Grant
The GOP Has a Plan for “Online Safety.” It Involves Censoring LGBTQ Content.
Lawmakers and tech companies say they want to protect kids. For Marsha Blackburn, that means keeping them from learning about trans people.
December 15, 2023
Timothy Noah
That Insufferable Billionaire Tyrannizing Harvard Enriches Himself by Tyrannizing the Bond Market
Meet Bill Ackman, the perfect embodiment of America’s growing oligarch scourge.
December 13, 2023
Alex Shephard
Tucker Carlson Is Fading Away
The former Fox News host has his own “network” now. But recapturing his Fox News relevance won’t be easy.
October 11, 2023
Alex Shephard
The Week Twitter Went Evil
The platform has gone from being a useful resource during a breaking news event to a dangerous respository of lies and fakery.
July 28, 2023
Molly Taft
What Will Twitter’s Death Mean for Climate Disaster Information?
It remains the most useful social media platform during a climate crisis. But its days seem numbered.
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.
May 15, 2023
Alex Shephard
Elon Musk Doesn’t Care About Free Speech
The Twitter owner’s decision to capitulate to Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is shameful.
May 11, 2023
Alex Shephard
Fox News and Tucker Carlson Are Both Losing
Tucker has a new show—on Twitter. Fox News is shedding its audience. Without one another, the struggle is real.
March 21, 2023
MagazineAlex Shephard
What Is Elon Musk Building?
He promised a “digital town square” when he bought Twitter. He has instead promoted right-wing conspiracy theories about Covid-19, Democrats—and even Twitter itself. Welcome to the libertarian superhero capitalist’s conception of the commons.

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