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Flush with cash, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are positioned to emerge from a downturn stronger and more powerful. As usual.

The world of deal making has always been rough and tumble. But Mr. Musk blows any predecessors away.

For a fee, the app will allow businesses to build a custom dashboard so they can chat with customers and offer customer services more easily.

The company relies on automated systems to spot violent content, but people are still uploading and sharing the Buffalo video.

Teenagers and young adults are turning to Snapchat, TikTok and other social media apps to find Percocet, Xanax and other pills. The vast majority are laced with deadly doses of fentanyl, police say.

S&P cited racial discrimination claims in deciding to exclude the electric carmaker from a listing of socially responsible companies.

The Department of Homeland Security suspended the work of a panel focused on the subject of disinformation. The group had provoked accusations of government overreach.

It is difficult to catch Asian elephants responding to deaths of herd members in the wild, but online videos helped researchers observe the behavior.

The rapidly expanding practice, which authorities say helps combat disinformation from abroad, has fueled a whole new type of online battle.

Mr. Musk called on Twitter to provide more data about the number of spam and fake accounts on the social media site.

Experts who track the hackers’ actions said the group had recently begun to shift its focus to countries in Central and South America, perhaps as retaliation against nations that have supported Ukraine.

The pandemic’s arrival turned spaces like WeWork into ghost towns. Now people are lining up for low-commitment offices, and providers are working to sustain that trend.

Mr. Musk has been creating confusion around whether the Twitter deal will close, causing the social media company’s share price to fall.

Clever marketers have figured out how easy it is to simulate online intimacy at scale, ventriloquizing alluring models with cheap, offshore labor.

Gunmen say they are influenced by online screeds and broadcasts of past shootings. Do social media sites have a responsibility to rein in hateful and violent content?

They’re quieter and better for the climate. But snow and water create new technological challenges for designers.

Activists and nonprofits are considering digital currencies as a way to raise funds. But can they really do anything other payment methods can’t?

Mr. Musk said he wanted to confirm Twitter’s findings that spam and fake accounts make up less than 5 percent of its users.

Mr. Musk said he wanted to confirm Twitter’s findings that spam and fake accounts make up less than 5 percent of its users.

Continue reading the main storyFormer President Donald J. Trump at the White House in 2020.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesPublished May 10, 2022Updated May 13, 2022, 7:14 a.m. ETAfter the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald J. Trump, social media sites including Twitter and Facebook...

A steep sell-off that gained momentum this week starkly illustrated the risks of the experimental and unregulated digital currencies.