Union Square Park in Manhattan erupted in chaos on Friday after a throng of what the police estimated to be several thousand young people descended on the area, drawn by the chance to receive...
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ikTok, Meta, Twitter, and YouTube All Have Different Plans for 2024 Election Misinformation
It’s never easy to separate political speech from disinformation in a democracy built upon the right of free speech, but the firehose of foreign and domestic weaponized bullshit that began in 2016, reached a...
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Opinion | The Gatekeepers of Knowledge Don’t Want Us to See What They Know
We are living through an information revolution. The traditional gatekeepers of knowledge — librarians, journalists and government officials — have largely been replaced by technological gatekeepers — search engines, artificial intelligence chatbots and social...
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Deleting Threads Is the Least of Your Meta Privacy Concerns
In less than two days, over 30 million users joined Meta’s new Twitter-like social media app, Threads. But the nascent platform is already facing scrutiny from users and critics. One of the most common...
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How to Delete Threads Without Losing Your Instagram
If you’ve started using Threads and found it wanting, you’re in for a rude awakening: As it stands, you can’t delete your Threads account without also deleting your Instagram account (although Meta is apparently “looking...
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How to Join Threads, Meta’s New Twitter Alternative (and Why You Might Want to Wait)
This week, Meta launched its new social media app, called Threads. This Twitter-like network lets users post short text blurbs along with images and videos. It’s an obvious move to win over Twitter’s fractured...
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The Five Best Twitter Alternatives
Twitter is going to the dogs. Since Elon Musk took over the platform last October, he has made too many questionable decisions to list here, but the lowlights include reinstating the accounts of banned...
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Supreme Court Puts First Amendment Limits on Laws Banning Online Threats
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the First Amendment imposes limits on laws that make it a crime to issue threats on the internet, requiring prosecutors to prove that defendants had acted recklessly...
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TikTok Is Our DJ Now. It’s Playing a Lot of Meghan Trainor.
Meghan Trainor, the pop star, is sitting in an empty marble bathtub, fully clothed and flanked by two of her friends. The three of them begin soulfully crooning an a cappella version of “Made...
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Three Things You Should Never Post on LinkedIn
What LinkedIn (usually) lacks in ostentatious, glam, or funny posts, it makes up for in utility—provided you use it correctly. While you’re looking for a job or even just tracking progress in your existing...
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