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Ads for Explicit ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are Swarming Facebook and Instagram
WIRED found thousands of ads running on Meta’s social platforms promoting sexually explicit “AI girlfriend" apps....
TikTok’s Creator Economy Stares Into the Abyss
The US Senate voted to pass a bill that could see TikTok banned within a year,...
She Painted a Few Champagne Bottles. Then Came Meta’s Customer Support Hell
A fashion influencer’s struggles to unblock her Instagram account highlight a long-standing problem with Meta’s lackluster...
Airchat Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Obsession
It’s time for another audio-first social network with a long wait list and vague moderation policies....
Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism
In Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and...
A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC’s Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?
Zen Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. Many of his allegations about the company...
TikTok Shop’s Era of Super Subsidies Is Ending
The app’s shopping features won over sellers and shoppers by offering deals that can seem too...
Screen Time for Kids Is Fine! Unless It's Not
Two new books offer radically different approaches to how people should think about smartphones and social...
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...
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,...
Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name
Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring...
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...
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...
There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764
A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
‘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...
A US-Sanctioned Oligarch Ran Pro-Kremlin Ads on Facebook—Again
Meta earned over $200,000 from an ad campaign, seen by millions, that pushed pro-Kremlin talking points...
Rumble Is Part of an ‘Active and Ongoing’ SEC Investigation
The SEC confirmed to WIRED that the financial regulator has launched an investigation involving Rumble, a...