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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...

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    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,...

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    Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name

    Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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,...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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....

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    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...

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    ‘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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    Pinterest Is Having a Moment

    Millennials may have popularized Pinterest, but Gen Z is pushing the platform to new heights.

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    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...

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    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...