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April 26, 2022 10:07 AM
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Tech’s big shots have learned again and again that free speech isn’t so simple. What happens when Mr. Musk owns Twitter?
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February 26, 2022 1:06 PM
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This is the first war that will be covered on TikTok by super-empowered individuals armed only with smartphones, so acts of brutality will be documented and broadcast worldwide without any editors or filters. On the first day of the war, we saw invading Russian tank units unexpectedly being exposed by Google maps, because Google wanted to alert drivers that the Russian armor was causing traffic jams.
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February 1, 2022 5:02 PM
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“The internet was coming. The internet was coming. The internet was coming.” But the internet as we know it wasn’t quite there yet.
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December 2, 2021 11:53 AM
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Spotify’s annual Wrapped campaigns make unpaid influencers of us all.
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October 25, 2021 11:39 AM
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Internal documents suggest Facebook has long known its algorithms and recommendation systems push some users to extremes.
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October 5, 2021 11:18 AM
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Documents that a whistle-blower, Frances Haugen, provided to The Wall Street Journal showed that Instagram made body-image issues worse for one in three teenage girls.
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August 12, 2021 11:03 AM
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Still relevant. Eight ways to use Facebook for the good of your sanity and our humanity.
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July 19, 2021 8:26 AM
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The internet is full of ways to curate (read: fake) your personal brand. Can we be honest about this one thing?
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April 19, 2021 10:16 AM
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Democrats are breathing easier. Republicans are crying censorship. For all of the country’s news consumers, a strange quiet has descended after a four-year bombardment of presidential verbiage.
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April 13, 2021 6:26 PM
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For all the advantages and disadvantages of remote work, video calls have emerged as such a widespread pain point that the term “Zoom fatigue” has entered our lexicon — a catchall phrase referring to the tiredness related to video calls on any number of platforms.
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March 4, 2021 11:02 AM
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One of the largest instances of mass digital snitching in history took place following the Capitol riots on January 6, when internet users began combing through the astoundingly large amount of photo and video evidence generated by the event in order to identify those who’d stormed the Capitol.
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February 22, 2021 12:15 PM
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The world gained more details about Sen. Ted Cruz's jaunt to Cancun during his state's power crisis and weather emergency via his wife's group text chain. Someone on the chain leaked some damning information, leading us to explore this "most intimate and sacred forms of communications."
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January 25, 2021 9:15 AM
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Artistic production has been long shrouded in mystery, but how artists are engaging with Instagram enables a new context for art practice. “[It adds] a virtual layer to the art world, alongside the atelier, museum or gallery” says van den Berg; one that is accessible, and which presents artists’ concerns, experiments and processes in ways that we would never ordinarily encounter.
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March 24, 2022 11:38 AM
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When something real happened, Americans found a way to pay attention. [O]n February 24, [when] the invasion began, American social networks, where the culture war normally rages ceaselessly, over COVID policies, school curricula, trans athletes, and more, suddenly went quiet.
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February 16, 2022 9:31 AM
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Instead of rocketing off to outer space, it’s more important to make our own planet better. As actor Matthew McConaughey puts it in the Salesforce ad: “It’s not time to escape, it’s time to engage... it’s time to build more trust.” And the way we do that is to focus more on exploring our inner space.
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February 1, 2022 4:59 PM
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Group texts became a social lifeline early in the pandemic. But all conversations must eventually come to an end.
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October 25, 2021 11:43 AM
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The reckoning has come. Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it’s struggling to deal with their effects.
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October 5, 2021 11:22 AM
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The outage disrupted the digital lives of small-business owners, politicians, aid workers and others. But for some, it was a welcome reprieve.
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August 12, 2021 11:05 AM
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A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.
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July 19, 2021 8:28 AM
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The pandemic made people appreciate the small things in life, and even that had to be shared. Now those moments live on Instagram as a new kind of slideshow.
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May 5, 2021 7:36 PM
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Out of touch? Basic? A new term to describe a certain aesthetic is gaining popularity on TikTok.
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April 19, 2021 10:13 AM
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Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor.
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April 7, 2021 11:08 AM
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Yahoo, which is owned by Verizon Media, will be shutting down the question-and-answer service and deleting its archives on May 4, erasing a corner of the internet that will be widely remembered for its — to be charitable — less-than-enriching contributions to human knowledge since its arrival in 2005. Less charitably, BuzzFeed News this week called it “one of the dumbest places on the internet.” Vulture said it was “populated entirely with Batman villains, aliens pretending to be human, and that one weird neighbor you’d rather climb down your fire escape in a blizzard than get caught in a conversation with.”
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February 26, 2021 1:33 PM
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Listening in: Clubhouse, the invitation-only audio social network, is compelling. It's only 11 months old, but it already has some very grown-up problems.
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February 5, 2021 10:46 AM
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Shawn Mendes has a Chipotle bowl. Charli D’Amelio has a Dunkin’ coffee. But ... why? The logic asks not to be looked at too carefully, only ordered.
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