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Something unexpected is happening in the United Kingdom. Children are leaving social media.Not in the way regulators hoped — driven off by age gates and parental contr...

Meta’s Mounting Capital Problem: $200 Billion in AI Spending With No Clear Payoff in Sight

Mark Zuckerberg has a spending problem. Not the kind that shows up on a credit card statement — the kind that shows up on a balance sheet measured in hundreds of billions of...

Meta’s Antitrust Loss Could Rewrite the Rules for Every Big Tech Company That Ever Bought a Rival

A federal judge in Washington just handed Meta Platforms one of the most consequential legal defeats in modern antitrust history — and the shockwaves won't stop at Menlo Park...

The Woman Who Says She Watched Facebook Sell Out Democracy — and Why Meta Wants You to Ignore Her

Sarah Wynn-Williams spent nearly a decade inside Facebook. She helped the company try to crack the Chinese market, sat in rooms where decisions about political censorship wer...

WhisperNet Eyes Saudi Arabia Launch Amid Strict Regulations

An anonymous social networking application has emerged with ambitions to penetrate one of the world's most regulated digital environments: Saudi Arabia. Launched by a startup ba...

Reddit Kills r/all: The Quiet Death of the Internet’s Last Uncurated Front Page

Reddit is dismantling one of the oldest features of its platform. The company has begun rolling out a redesigned homepage that replaces the iconic r/all feed — once billed as...

Australia’s Social Media Age Ban Enters Uncharted Territory — And the Rest of the World Is Watching

Australia became the first Western democracy to ban children under 16 from social media. That was the easy part. Now comes enforcement — and the first real test of whether th...

The 22-Year-Old Who Turned TikTok’s Algorithm Into a Factory for Viral TV Shows

Rowan Winch was 17 when he started posting videos on TikTok. Five years later, his company Fallen Media is producing some of the most-watched unscripted content on the intern...

Bluesky’s AI Experiment Attie Becomes the Platform’s Most Blocked Account — Right Behind J.D. Vance

Bluesky, the decentralized social network that built its identity as a refuge from algorithmic manipulation and corporate AI overreach, just shipped an artificial intelligenc...

Meta Wants You to Pay for the Privilege of Lurking: Inside Instagram’s Secret Story Viewing Test

Meta is quietly testing a paid Instagram feature that would let users view Stories without leaving a trace — no name in the viewer list, no read receipts, no evidence you wer...

The Platform That Promised No AI Slop Just Got Its Own AI Features — and Users Are Furious

Bluesky built its identity as the anti-everything social network. Anti-X. Anti-algorithmic manipulation. Anti-corporate surveillance. And, perhaps most fervently among its us...

The White Coat Effect Is Real — And Reddit Users Are Helping Doctors Understand Why Office Blood Pressure Readings Can’t Be Trusted

A sprawling thread on Reddit has done what decades of medical literature has struggled to accomplish: it's made the case — in plain, anxious, sometimes darkly funny language...

Bluesky Bets on AI to Solve Social Media’s Oldest Problem: Finding What You Actually Want to See

Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform that has positioned itself as the anti-algorithm alternative to X, is building an AI assistant. Not to generate posts. Not to...

Austria Draws a Hard Line: Why Vienna’s Under-14 Social Media Ban Could Reshape Europe’s Approach to Children Online

Austria is about to do something no EU member state has done before. The country's government has proposed a sweeping ban on social media for children under 14, backed by age...

Austria Draws a Hard Line: Why Vienna’s Under-14 Social Media Ban Could Reshape Europe’s Fight Over Kids Online

Austria is about to do something most Western democracies have only talked about. The country's coalition government has agreed to ban children under 14 from using social med...

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