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Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be
If you dwell in certain internet neighborhoods long enough, the rules of governing, however absurd or toxic, become…
Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?
Michael Calore: Yep. Lauren Goode: Yeah. Michael Calore: What about you, Zoë? Zoë Schiffer: My total screen time.…
TikTok’s Future in the US Is Unclear. We Check Back in With the Billionaire Who Wants to Save It
TikTok is officially on the chopping block, friends. Last Friday, a federal appeals court upheld a law that…
OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up With Their DMs
One of the more persistent concerns in the age of AI is that the robots will take our…
The Internet’s Obsession With Luigi Mangione Signals a Major Shift
In America, people have strong opinions about health insurance companies, and when it came out that the alleged…
Luigi Mangione Is Everywhere | WIRED
This unusual situation meant that as internet sleuths worked to discover as much information about him as possible,…
Trans Americans Are Turning to TikTok to Crowdfund Their Relocations
Since the election, Richards says that applications have skyrocketed, with a majority of requests coming from Texas and…
Tricked by a Fake Viral Food Product? You’ve Just Been Snackfished
You’ve heard of a “catfish”—a fake online identity adopted by someone who wants to trick or scam other…
Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. As of Tuesday, there are 24…
He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee…