X’s First Transparency Report Since Elon Musk’s Takeover Is Finally Here
In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.
Old Web Is Dying
The synthetic social network is coming
Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever
Strava and Letterboxd Surge as Users Crave Social-Media Refuge
Strava launched in 2009 as a niche website for cyclists to log mileage. During the pandemic, it blossomed into a mobile app serving more than 120 million athletes as worldwide lockdowns drove people outdoors.
Google's Exclusive Reddit Access
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
The Pop Craveification of Breaking News
We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.
News hustlers, who operate primarily on X, but also Threads, Instagram, and any app with a native reshare button, are the Pop Crave model of news on steroids
The World’s Last Internet Cafes
For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
The Age of Social Media Is Ending
It never should have begun.