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Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
Meta removed 10.9 million Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to “criminal scam centers” last year, the company announced on Wednesday.
Lily Hay Newman
Bye Bye
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down
Kate Knibbs
Access Denied
Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps
Zeyi Yang
Taking the Stand
Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Play It Safe in Social Media Addiction Trial Testimony
Miles Klee
Your Honor
Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case. Here’s What’s at Stake
Lauren Goode
Trust Issues
TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners
Zeyi Yang
and
Vittoria Elliott
Child Safety
Meta Seeks to Bar Mentions of Mental Health—and Zuckerberg’s Harvard Past—From Child Safety Trial
Lauren Goode
Half Measures
Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
Matt Burgess
Grotesque
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Caroline Haskins
Free Bird
Operation Bluebird Wants to Bring ‘Twitter’ Back to Life
Cyrus Farivar
App Control
Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
Zeyi Yang
and
Louise Matsakis
Lift the Veil
Scam Ads Are Flooding Social Media. These Former Meta Staffers Have a Plan
Craig Silverman
The Big Interview
Kara Swisher Would Rather Work for Sam Altman Than Mark Zuckerberg
Katie Drummond
Power Play
Trump Executive Order Will Hand TikTok Over to US Investors
Zeyi Yang
Tick Tock
Donald Trump Is Saying There’s a TikTok Deal. China Isn’t
Zeyi Yang
and
Jake Lahut
Made in China
How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate
Zeyi Yang
Violent Spread
Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World
Lauren Goode
Social Migration
Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky
Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica
Dad Mod
Alexis Ohanian’s Next Social Platform Has One Rule: Don’t Act Like an Asshole
Katie Drummond
Sales Sims
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts
Jason Koebler
and
Zeyi Yang
Made in China
Americans Are Obsessed With Watching Short Video Dramas From China
Zeyi Yang
Guilt Free
Trump’s Defiance of TikTok Ban Prompted Immunity Promises to 10 Tech Companies
Paresh Dave
Data Is In
Meta’s ‘Free Expression’ Push Results in Far Fewer Content Takedowns
Paresh Dave
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