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Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

Discovery Time

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

Kate Knibbs

Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

No Kidding

Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

Paresh Dave

How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work

Not for You Page

How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work

Matt Burgess

The X-ification of Meta

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The X-ification of Meta

Brian Barrett

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

New Era

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

Kate Knibbs

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

Hard Facts

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

David Gilbert

Meta Ditches Fact-Checkers Ahead of Trump's Second Term

Breaking News

Meta Ditches Fact-Checkers Ahead of Trump's Second Term

David Gilbert

Facebook and Instagram Ads Push Gun Silencers Disguised as Car Parts

Swap Shop

Facebook and Instagram Ads Push Gun Silencers Disguised as Car Parts

Dhruv Mehrotra

What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok

Platform Pivot

What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok

Makena Kelly and Zeyi Yang

Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?

Uncanny Valley

Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?

Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, and Zoë Schiffer

The Billion-Dollar Adult Streaming Industry Is Fueled by Horrific Labor Abuses

Dirty Jobs

The Billion-Dollar Adult Streaming Industry Is Fueled by Horrific Labor Abuses

Lily Hay Newman

Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification

The Big Interview

Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification

Reece Rogers

He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too

Log Off

He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too

Andy Greenberg

Embrace the Shift to ‘Prosocial Media’

WIRED World

Embrace the Shift to ‘Prosocial Media’

Audrey Tang

The Chinese Queen of Cottagecore Has Suddenly Reappeared After Three Years

Pastoral Return

The Chinese Queen of Cottagecore Has Suddenly Reappeared After Three Years

Zeyi Yang

The Creator of Houseparty Is Back. This Time He’s Taking on Slack and Discord

Q&A

The Creator of Houseparty Is Back. This Time He’s Taking on Slack and Discord

Joel Khalili

TikTok Employees Shrug Off the US Election

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TikTok Employees Shrug Off the US Election

Zeyi Yang

Profiteers Are Exploiting US Election Conspiracies and Hate to Make Millions

Dollars Incensed

Profiteers Are Exploiting US Election Conspiracies and Hate to Make Millions

Meriem Mahdhi and Claire Wilmot

I Made a Wholesome OnlyFans to Try to Make Ends Meet

SFW

I Made a Wholesome OnlyFans to Try to Make Ends Meet

Andrew Rummer

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe

Russian Wave

The Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of Europe

Morgan Meaker