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The SEC Is Suing Elon Musk. It’s All in the Timing
Less than a week before Donald Trump takes office, the SEC has filed a complaint against his most prominent benefactor.
Brian Barrett
Getting Revenge
With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘RedNote’
Zeyi Yang
true or false
Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves
Jorge Ramis
Discovery Time
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
Kate Knibbs
No Kidding
Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe
Paresh Dave
Not for You Page
How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work
Matt Burgess
note taken
The X-ification of Meta
Brian Barrett
New Era
Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’
Kate Knibbs
Hard Facts
Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them
David Gilbert
Breaking News
Meta Ditches Fact-Checkers Ahead of Trump's Second Term
David Gilbert
Swap Shop
Facebook and Instagram Ads Push Gun Silencers Disguised as Car Parts
Dhruv Mehrotra
Platform Pivot
What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok
Makena Kelly
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Zeyi Yang
Uncanny Valley
Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?
Lauren Goode
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Michael Calore
, and
Zoë Schiffer
Dirty Jobs
The Billion-Dollar Adult Streaming Industry Is Fueled by Horrific Labor Abuses
Lily Hay Newman
The Big Interview
Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
Reece Rogers
Log Off
He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
Andy Greenberg
WIRED World
Embrace the Shift to ‘Prosocial Media’
Audrey Tang
Pastoral Return
The Chinese Queen of Cottagecore Has Suddenly Reappeared After Three Years
Zeyi Yang
Q&A
The Creator of Houseparty Is Back. This Time He’s Taking on Slack and Discord
Joel Khalili
clock's ticking
TikTok Employees Shrug Off the US Election
Zeyi Yang
Dollars Incensed
Profiteers Are Exploiting US Election Conspiracies and Hate to Make Millions
Meriem Mahdhi
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Claire Wilmot
SFW
I Made a Wholesome OnlyFans to Try to Make Ends Meet
Andrew Rummer
Russian Wave
The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe
Morgan Meaker
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