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How a Twitter plan to counter extremism fell apart
A research team was midway through a project to help troubled users. Then Elon Musk bought the company
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Twitter's other porn problem
Imagine the company did want to monetize adult content. Would Apple let it?
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🚨 How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor
Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven’t listened
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Medium's next move
CEO Tony Stubblebine on the company's journalism mistakes, bundle economics, and life after Ev Williams
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Why Reddit is still betting on the blockchain
CEO Steve Huffman on making the web more user-friendly — and his plan to "not use any crypto words"
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A tricky Google CSAM case revives the surveillance debate
Is this the baby-in-the-bathtub case we've long feared — or something worse? PLUS: More on Mudge
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Mudge blows the whistle on Twitter
It's a gift to Elon Musk. But how much will it matter?
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How a viral NFT project survived the crypto crash
Loot's Dom Hofmann on outlasting the hype cycle, public-domain video games, and why Creative Commons is the future
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The platforms get ready for midterms
TikTok and Facebook laid out their plans — so why are we all shrugging?
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TikTok works on its trust deficit
With a little help from ... Larry Ellison??
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The platforms dodge a bullet in California
While Congress dithers, the drive to regulate social networks has moved to the states
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Inside Facebook's encryption conundrum
The company is moving quickly to make Messenger more secure — but selling it to average users could prove to be a challenge
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Elon is flailing
Hunting for leads and selling his Tesla stock: is Musk losing the Twitter case?
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An abortion controversy hits Facebook
Platforms find themselves in an impossible situation after Roe. Is there a way forward?
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Why Meta's bots are back
A new public chatbot test brings the company lots of new data — and not a little risk
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Three wild stories from Facebook's counter-espionage team
Why every platform ought to pay attention to the company's latest report