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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...
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...
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...
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...
Pinterest Is Having a Moment
Millennials may have popularized Pinterest, but Gen Z is pushing the platform to new heights.
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...
Why It Took Meta 7 Years to Turn on End-to-End Encryption for All Chats
Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram...