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new video loaded: How ICE Is Pushing Tech Companies to Identify Protesters The DHS is flooding social media companies with administrative subpoenas to identify accounts that are protesting…
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. To my right, another guy picked up a book. Across…
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…
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 certain information…
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…
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 just a handful…
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…
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 for my phone and…
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, sprinkled with…
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).…
Historically, medicine’s power rested on a specific kind of cultural authority—the ability to determine not only what diseases exist, who has them, and what to do about it, but also what…
A Virginia startup calling itself Operation Bluebird announced this week that it has filed a formal petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office, asking the federal agency to cancel X…
As the year comes to a close, Pinterest has unveiled its latest “Pinterest Predicts 2026” report, looking at what’s “not-yet-trending” — with the likes of cool blue, “glamoretti” and…
Pantone has been taken to task by some media outlets, and more critics on social media, for choosing “Cloud Dancer” — a version of white — for the 2026 Color of the Year. Leatrice Eiseman,…
Performing personhood has perhaps never been as panoptical, and top of mind, as it is today. Social-media platforms prioritize the fastidious maintenance and monitoring of online personas,…
At what age should a kid ideally get a smartwatch? In China, parents are buying them for children as young as five. Adults want to be able to call their kids and track their location down…
On TikTok Shop, an ecosystem of fast-growth, Black-owned beauty brands is taking shape. It’s a group that includes emerging brands — for instance, Kayla Rowe’s Her Fantasy Box, which was…
Despite the never-ending drama over whether to ban the app, President Donald Trump’s volatile tariff regime, and executive shake-ups, TikTok’s ecommerce division is still seeing massive…
When billionaire Dutch TV producer John de Mol sued Facebook in 2019 over its alleged failure to stop scammers from using his image in deceptive ads, the social media company sent Rob…
There are many ways to be big on social media, but they are not created equal. Maybe an account belongs to a popular brand or to a famous person, whose online following is preordained, no…
AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. A new study from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue University shows that large language models fed a diet of popular…
European roboticists today released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that acts as a brain for industrial robots—helping them grasp and manipulate things with new…
What brands do off Amazon is equally as important as what they do on Amazon — “even if you’re off Amazon, you’re on Amazon.” That was the word from Christopher Skinner, cofounder and chief…
On Tuesday, OpenAI released an AI video app called Sora. The platform is powered by OpenAI’s latest video generation model, Sora 2, and revolves around a TikTok-like For You page of…
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