Tag: Social Media
Facebook Will Make You Love Reels
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns.Facebook is going…
Fed Up With Google, Conspiracy Theorists Turn to DuckDuckGo
Free the Will PatriotsForwarded from Silence Dogood, MBA I just started using DuckDuckGo today, and needless to say…
Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints
“Open your eyes,” the online post began, claiming, “Many in our govt worship Satan.”That warning, published on a…
Dance Class Is in Session: Flail, Get Weird, Unlock Yourself
You’re going to feel silly, Angela Trimbur promised.It was a Sunday, and Trimbur, a dancer and choreographer in…
Trump’s Truth Social Is Poised to Join a Crowded Field
For months, former President Donald J. Trump has promoted Truth Social, the soon-to-be-released flagship app of his fledging…
How China Uses Bots and Fake Twitter Accounts to Shape the Olympics
This article is published with ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative newsroom.BEIJING — Inside the Potemkin village of China’s propaganda,…
Nope to Metamates, Googlers and Puritans
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns.The company we…
Out With the Facebookers. In With the Metamates.
Google’s employees are called Googlers. Amazon’s workers are known as Amazonians. Yahoo’s employees were Yahoos.So it was a…
Why Lauren Smith-Fields’s Friends Turned to TikTok
On Jan. 22, the night before Lauren Smith-Fields would have turned 24, her friends gathered to celebrate the…
Dance, I Said — Dance! And Leave the Package on the Porch.
How did we get here? It all feels like an inevitable outgrowth of Amazon’s ever-expanding product suite. Install…
Twitter’s Mixed Fourth-Quarter Earnings Show Challenges Ahead
Last year, Twitter executives set ambitious goals for their company, with hopes of attracting more than 100 million…
Ottawa Protests Become Rallying Cry for Far-Right and Anti-Vaccine Groups
Both were references to Mr. Trudeau’s dismissal of the protesters last week as a “small fringe minority.”On Monday,…