Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out

They're designed for storage, not sparking insights. Can AI change that?

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Five lessons, and one open question

Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please

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What I learned in year two, and what comes next

Few apps have made a more valiant effort to rescue us from indolence than Things, the to-do list app for Mac and iOS from German software developer Cultured Code. When it debuted as one of the...

The turmoil associated with Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the company was a breaking point.

"For me, fundamentally, the mistake was thinking that journalism was where Medium was going to shine."

"Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale."

Imagine the company did want to monetize adult content. Would Apple let it?

This deal was always headed to court. What happens next?

She was Silicon Valley's most famous COO. Did she stay too long?

Elon Musk's deal is looking wobbly, and the CEO just fired his top two lieutenants

The former president knows we need a system-wide approach. But where to start?

Task #1: undermine CEO, consolidate power

Signal employees are worried about anonymous crypto payments.

A former integrity worker on Facebook's internal "posting culture" and why it's easy to misread the Haugen leaks

After today, platforms should finally see the moral clarity about their role in world events.

Let’s take some guesses about what happens to dating apps, social networks, porn, and labor in the coming year.

Plus: Twitter and the New York Post, revisited

More than any other tech company, Twitter was invented by its users. That’s no slight against the engineers and designers who actually built the thing. It’s just to say that what we think of as...

In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being harassed by other members. This seemed obviously bad, but at the time the company had no guidelines about how users should behave on the site. Moderation duties were left to the two co-founders, then the company’s only employees, and it’s fair to say that enforcement was not their full-time focus. When I wrote about the situation at Clubhouse, responses were divided. Some readers said that because

Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and what makes email such a good media format

Instagram’s former CEO reportedly held preliminary talks to become TikTok’s CEO

One reason I enjoy writing a column about the intersection between big technology platforms and democracy is that on most days, it feels like one of the most important things in the world. But on this strangest of days in San Francisco, where wildfires up and down the west coast blotted out the sun and gave the town the eerie feel of permanent midnight, it was hard to pay the usual attention to my beat. My colleague Vjeran Pavic flew a drone over Sutro Tower this morning and captured the surreal