Tag: Social Media
An Unsteady Moment for Tech
We are in an odd moment for technology. Can you feel it? The powerful forces of unstoppable change…
Truth Social Review: Trump’s Uncensored Social App Is Incomplete
When Elon Musk sealed a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion this week, another social networking product…
Elon Musk Is a Typical Twitter User, Except for One Thing
Musk’s acquisition has been more than a little crazy-making on a platform where many users’ chief obsession is…
Selling Twitter to Elon Musk Is Good for Investors. What About the Public?
Twitter is “the digital town square, where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” a triumphant…
Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Will Face Reality of His Free-Speech Talk
“We need to protect freedom of speech in order to make our democracy work,” said Jameel Jaffer, the…
Twitter Nears a Deal to Sell Itself to Elon Musk
Update, 3:05 p.m. Eastern time, April 25: Elon Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter for roughly $44…
Trump Media Adds Former Nunes Aides, Donald Jr., and ‘Apprentice’ Contestant to Board
Devin Nunes, the former Republican congressman from California who now heads the social media start-up backed by former…
Discreetly, the Young in Japan Chip Away at a Taboo on Tattoos
TOKYO — Ayaka Kizu, a web designer in Tokyo, stood by her office desk one recent day, peeling…
As Europe Approves New Tech Laws, the U.S. Falls Further Behind
In just the last few years, Europe has seen a sweeping law for online privacy take effect, approved…
E.U. Takes Aim at Social Media’s Harms With Landmark New Law
The European Union was nearing a deal on Friday on landmark legislation that would force Facebook, YouTube and…
Obama Calls for More Oversight of Social Media in Speech at Stanford
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Former President Barack Obama on Thursday called for greater regulatory oversight of the country’s…
Barack Obama’s New Role: Fighting Disinformation
Republicans, for their part, accuse the companies of suppressing free speech by censoring conservative voices — above all…