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Meta Kills a Crucial Transparency Tool At the Worst Possible Time
CrowdTangle helps researchers track disinformation, but Meta will close it down before the US election. The...
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Reddit Stock Surges on Its First Day of Trading
The home of memestocks is now publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as RDDT,...
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Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name
Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring...
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Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears
WIRED reviewed edits made by Reddit to its IPO paperwork over the years ahead of its...
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Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO?
When thousands of subreddits went dark in protest, it exposed the tension at the core of...
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Twitter’s Former Trust and Safety Chief Is Trying to Clean Up Your Dating Apps
Yoel Roth suffered targeted harassment after quitting as top content cop at Elon Musk’s Twitter. Now...
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The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China
Influencers on TikTok and Reddit earn a cut of the counterfeit goods trade by promoting high-quality...
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This Senator Wants to Know What Meta and TikTok Are Doing About Parent-Run Girl Influencer Accounts
Senator Maggie Hassan wrote to Meta and other platforms asking what they're doing to protect girls...
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Facebook, Instagram, and Threads Are Coming Back Online After a 2-Hour Outage
People around the world reported that Meta’s social platforms Facebook, Instagram, and Threads suffered outages for...
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Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against a Group That Found Hate Speech on X Isn’t Going Well
X alleges that the Center for Countering Digital Hate cost it millions by showing that hate...
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Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying
Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing....
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Says She Won’t ‘Enshittify the Network With Ads’
WIRED spoke with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber about the X competitor opening signups to all, how...
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‘Over Time the Trust Will Come’: An Exclusive Interview With TikTok’s CEO
A few weeks ago, Shou Zi Chew sat down with WIRED to tell us how he’s...
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Meet Flip, the Viral Video App Giving Away Free Stuff
Social video app Flip is trying to create a social platform dedicated to reviewing and buying...
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EU Investigates Elon Musk’s X for Spreading Illegal Content
Raising a range of concerns into the way X has been run under Elon Musk, EU...
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Pinterest Is Having a Moment
Millennials may have popularized Pinterest, but Gen Z is pushing the platform to new heights.
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YouTube Is Now Hiding Which Channels Get a Cut of Ad Revenue
YouTube removed a snippet of code that publicly disclosed whether a channel receives ad and subscription...