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Democrats Are Massively Outspending Republicans on Social Media It’s not even close — $182 million to just $45 million, according to one new estimate.
screen time
Oct. 22, 2024
journalism lives!
Sept. 13, 2024
Did That Anti–Lady Gaga Facebook Group Really Exist? “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous” is officially famous.
A Crisis for American Venomous-Snake Owners One nasty bite took out a well-known snake owner. Now it’s a problem.
screen time
June 26, 2024
The Internet’s Biggest Mystery How many regular users do the likes of Facebook, Youtube, and Netflix even have anymore?
Why Would Anyone Look for a Sperm Donor on Facebook? Meet the women logging on for fresh semen and the men who get their kicks offering their seed.
The Secret Weakness of TikTok’s All-Powerful Algorithm The social-media giant is paying a price for its own mythmaking.
the facebook
Apr. 26, 2024
Aaron Sorkin Is Writing About That Harvard Brat Again Planning a Social Network sequel on Facebook’s role in January 6.
screen time
Apr. 21, 2024
Meta’s AI Needs to Speak With You The company is putting chatbots everywhere so you don’t go anywhere.
I Know What You Did on the Playground Inside the chaos that often ensues after a parent posts about a “bad nanny” on Facebook.
neighborhoods
Dec. 13, 2023
‘It’s a Tyranny of Mike’ A Crown Heights building Facebook group has descended into drama.
The ‘Airbnb Alternative’ Black Market New York’s Airbnb crackdown has driven hosts and visitors back to Craigslist and neighborhood listserves.
The Final Frontier for Helicopter Parents Inside the Facebook and WhatsApp groups where moms arrange playdates for their college kids.
screen time
Nov. 14, 2023
How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook Have you heard about WhatsApp’s aggressive new ad strategy?
screen time
Oct. 14, 2023
Why Wartime Social Media Is Hellish and Disorienting The Israel-Hamas war shows how platforms like Twitter are moving further downstream from reality.
screen time
June 22, 2023
Why Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Quit Twitter He once tried to buy it. Now he’s creating a knockoff — and talking about a cage fight with Elon Musk.
Everything We Know About the Investigation Into Andrew Tate The misogynist influencer will go to trial on charges of rape and human trafficking in Romania.
screen time
Apr. 28, 2023
The News Went Viral The media bet its future on Facebook. Did it learn from that mistake?
unentangled
Apr. 27, 2023
life in pixels
Mar. 15, 2023
Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.
silicon valley
Mar. 14, 2023
10,000 People at Meta Will Lose Their Jobs After Meta lost $700 billion in market cap last year, Mark Zuckerberg announced a mass layoff to make sure this is its “Year of Efficiency.”
Tate-Pilled What a generation of boys have found in Andrew Tate’s extreme male gospel.
A TikTok Ban Would Make for an Incredibly Strange Day on the Internet While it might not be the most probable course of events, it definitely could happen.
street fights
Feb. 23, 2023
There’s a War Going on in Your Local Buy Nothing Group Behind that free Ikea bookshelf, splinter groups are breaking away from the founders’ vision of a “gifting economy.”
early and often
Feb. 9, 2023
Trump Can Post on Facebook and Instagram Again (If He Feels Like It) Meta has restored Trump’s accounts, but for now you’ll only find him sharing dubious polls and trashing Rihanna on Truth Social.
on with kara swisher
Jan. 30, 2023
Kara Swisher on Mark Zuckerberg’s Never-ending Trump Problem She reflects on more than 15 years of covering Facebook and why bringing back Trump is a lose-lose.
screen time
Jan. 26, 2023
How Much Does Unbanning Trump Really Matter? On the internet, you can never really go back home.
tremendous content
Jan. 23, 2023
Trump and Truth Social Should Just Break Up Already He reportedly wants out of his contract with Truth Social, but instead of making a clean break, he’s asking for an open relationship with other sites.
early and often
Jan. 19, 2023
Trump to Facebook: I Haven’t Changed, But Take Me Back Anyway Facebook deemed Trump a “risk to public safety.” Now he says the platform should unban him because “they need us more than we need them.”
screen time
Jan. 19, 2023
Elon Musk and the Sad Mod Theory of Social-Media CEOs You may technically run the place, but most of your users just see you as a glorified moderator.
The E.U.’s Judgment Against Meta Could Be a Big Deal The company was fined over $400 million for violating users’ privacy in a decision with far-reaching implications.
Would You Like to Buy Kyrsten Sinema’s Heels? It appears the Arizona senator has a very active Facebook Marketplace account.
return to office
Nov. 16, 2022
The Office Is Half-Dead Or half-alive, depending on how you want to interpret the latest data.
screen time
Oct. 26, 2022
It’s Official: Meta Is a Disaster The dismal quarterly results make it clear that the company formerly known as Facebook is an absolute and total mess.
screen time
Oct. 13, 2022
Why Your Boss’s Boss Wants You in the Metaverse Understanding the metaverse as a set of software tools that you might be told to use isn’t exciting — but at least it makes sense.
scene report
Oct. 3, 2022
Every Man at This Party Is Vouched For Tired of “liars and manipulators,” a group of single women started a mixer for meeting guys you can actually trust.
screen time
Sept. 26, 2022
TikTok Is the New King of Social Media. Now What? The video-sharing service faces perils old and new.
celebrity weddings
Aug. 22, 2022
Sheryl Sandberg Got Married This Weekend She and Tom Bernthal had a western-themed wedding in Wyoming.
Andrew Tate Has Finally Been Banned From TikTok “The king of toxic masculinity” has also been kicked off Facebook and Instagram.
sustainability
Aug. 17, 2022
How Interior Designers Make the Most of Facebook Marketplace All you need is a little patience and lots of scrolling time.
niche drama
July 13, 2022
What on Earth Is Going On in This Princess Diana Facebook Group? The fan page is apparently plagued with members posting about masturbation.
life after roe
July 1, 2022
Are Social-Media Platforms Censoring Information About Abortion? Facebook and Instagram have been restricting and removing posts intended to help people seeking reproductive care.
Quartz Tried Everything in 10 Years The media company that tried literally everything.
Facebook Is Now Allowing Itself to Be Weaponized Meta’s decision to explicitly allow violent rhetoric against Russian soldiers and Vladimir Putin raises some very uncomfortable questions.
RT America Shuts Down Amid Russian State-Media Bans RT America released a memo today announcing layoffs in New York, L.A., Miami, and D.C.
Russia Puts Up an Information Iron Curtain Putin’s Kremlin banned Twitter and Facebook and effectively criminalized critical journalism, prompting an exodus of foreign press.
mark zuckerberg
Feb. 18, 2022
Zuckerberg Has Burned $500 Billion Turning Facebook to Meta The social-media Goliath has fallen out of the top-ten largest companies in the world by market capitalization.
2022 midterms
Feb. 7, 2022
Peter Thiel to Leave Meta Board to Focus on Giving Republicans Money The conservative billionaire is pivoting to become a benefactor for Trump supporters he used to employ.
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