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Back in 2014, Clyp started out as a simple platform to upload audio files - kind of like the Imgur of audio. Then slowly over the years, thanks in part to feedback from many of you, we added more features and worked to create the best place for creators to share audio on the web.

Reddit wants to be like all of the other social media companies.

Slack is now a Salesforce property, marking a substantial shift in the business software industry.

Along with brand-new rules

Twitter is trying its hand at ephemeral messaging.

Of the accounts that follow me on Twitter, half are spambots. About 15% are companies or organizations whose social media interns found me on a list somewhere, and another 15% are something in between: not definitely bots, but not exactly [...]

It's been the most popular free app on both iOS and Android for the last several days.

Trump said earlier this week that "nobody gets hacked."

For a little while, it won’t be as easy to retweet as it used to be.

While you can quibble with the details, the social platforms did the right thing in initially limiting the distribution of last week’s New York Post article on Hunter Biden. As others have noted, in the wake of the 2016 election, platforms like Facebook and Twitter were forced to make certain ...

Plus: Twitter and the New York Post, revisited

There's a button at the top of the Reddit homepage called "Random." When pressed, the algorithm will serve you up one of the 138,000 subreddits bobbing around the website's depths. We've all found our own languid methods to pass the time during the mounting months of quarantine, and this has been mine. Days and nights, passively logged on, pressing that button over and over again, greeting a new subcommittee of brilliant obsessives and weirdos. Reddit, by its nature, is home to both vast ultra-generalized superboards, (like the self-explanatory r/WorldNews or r/Politics,) and the microscopi...

The move follows a whirlwind moderation debate from Republicans

Jeff D'Onofrio joins us on the Source Code podcast.

The rise, fall, and rise again of Discord’s Light Theme.

A new movement of teenage climate activists — most of whom are girls — are getting dragged, doxed, hacked, and harassed online.

The billionaire child rapist bought his way into an elite crowd of intellectuals that defined the last three decades of science, tech, and culture.

A few days ago, Facebook disentangled itself from a nettlesome investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into how the company violated users' privacy. And then, with that matter now squarely behind it, Facebook on Tuesday stepped forward to share some information about its effort to read our minds.Two years after the company announced its mind-reading initiative, Facebook has an update to share. The company sponsored an experiment conducted by researchers at the University of California San F

Why Congress should stop deferring to federal agencies to set privacy policy

Riffr is yet another social network, this one based around audio snippets. And maybe it …

The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech.

Has Tinder usage increased during the pandemic?

King Science, Maddi Winter, TootyMcNooty, and more are leading an animated revolution on TikTok.

In the polite circles of Silicon Valley, when people want to discuss how creators build and monetize audiences, people like to talk about companies like Patreon and Substack. What they should be talking about is the adult-entertainment subscription service OnlyFans. OnlyFans’ scale and cultural ...

Moments of social mobilization enliven and expand our political imagination. Among the things that sorely need reimagining is our technology.

One of Twitter's summer experiments — to get people to read news articles before retweeting them — will be rolled out to the rest of the platform "very soon." Twitter announced the experiment in June in an effort to "promote informed discussion", as one of a few projects …

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