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Video: How ICE Is Pushing Tech Companies to Identify Protesters
[ad_1] new video loaded: How ICE Is Pushing Tech Companies to Identify ProtestersThe DHS is flooding social media companies with administrative subpoenas to identify accounts that are protesting ICE. Social...
No Phone, No Social Safety Net: Welcome to the ‘Offline Club’
[ad_1] On cue, the room fell silent. A man seated to my left at a long wooden table began to scratch at a piece of paper with a coloring pencil....
TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners
[ad_1] TikTok is currently experiencing a widespread service outage in the US, causing disruptions for millions of users only a few days after the company officially transferred control of its...
Meta Seeks to Bar Mentions of Mental Health—and Zuckerberg’s Harvard Past—From Child Safety Trial
[ad_1] As Meta heads to trial in the state of New Mexico for allegedly failing to protect minors from sexual exploitation, the company is making an aggressive push to have...
Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
[ad_1] Elon Musk’s X has introduced new restrictions stopping people from editing and generating images of real people in bikinis or other “revealing clothing.” The change in policy on Wednesday...
The Top 10 Beauty Brands by ‘Dupe’ Searches in the U.S.
[ad_1] Popular as beauty dupes continue to be, the category’s most common targets don’t shift very often. What’s more, demand for dupe products is highly concentrated at the top to...
ICE’s New-Age Propaganda
[ad_1] For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Brady Brickner-Wood is filling in for Kyle Chayka.Late last year, the White House’s social-media team lauded ICE’s torrential deportation efforts with a string...
The Weirdly Refreshing Honesty of the Oscars of TikTok
[ad_1] For the longest time, I kept myself from joining TikTok. Social media, I figured, was already kind of a problem for me. I was heavily hooked on Instagram, reaching...
Pinterest Users Are Tired of All the AI Slop
[ad_1] For five years, Caitlyn Jones has used Pinterest on a weekly basis to find recipes for her son. In September, Jones spotted a creamy chicken and broccoli slow-cooker recipe,...
The Extremely Online Bona Fides of “I Love L.A.”
[ad_1] In Sunday’s season finale of “I Love L.A.,” Los Angeles is blamed for getting between the show’s protagonist, Maia (Rachel Sennott), and her live-in boyfriend, Dylan (Josh Hutcherson). After...
