7 May 2025
🧮 Algorithmic recommendations are shit. /// Wrote This15 April 2025
🤖 OpenAI is building a social network /// The Verge10 April 2025
📺 TikTok’s hottest show, The Group Chat, thrives because of the gossip /// The Fader4 April 2025
📱 This ’90s-esque social media site only works for three hours a day /// The Verge10 March 2025
🐣 Tweetbot’s developers are making a Bluesky app /// The Verge5 March 2025
🕳️ Old Rivals, New Vision /// Digg /// The Verge23 January 2025
⛓️💥 Free Our Feeds Wants to Make Social Media Billionaire-Proof /// TPA17 January 2025
🧑💻 On Meta’s moderation changes /// Manu7 January 2025
🤳 Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves /// 4047 January 2025
✅ Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-Checking on Meta Is Too “Politically Biased” /// THR6 August 2024
😵 X files antitrust lawsuit against ad industry group GARM — Axios18 June 2024
📱 FTC refers TikTok complaint to Justice Department — Semafor18 June 2024
🙅 Sex Workers Are Getting Scammed on Instagram. Meta Needs to Step In — Rolling Stone21 May 2024
🧸 a social site without all that pesky social stuff — brizzly zero7 May 2024
🤕 Substack tries to be YouTube?13 March 2024
🍋 After Testy Interview With Elon Musk, Don Lemon Says His Deal With X Is Canceled NY Times3 February 2024
❤️🔥 RSS readers make me want to jump into a vat of acid! — Keenan1 February 2024
🖼️ Painting one playing card a week — @rileysheehey30 January 2024
📜 Project Tapestry — Kickstarter25 January 2024
🔲 Daft Social22 January 2024
📻 Introducing: PI.FYI — Perfectly Imperfect18 January 2024
🏴☠️ The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams — Waxy17 January 2024
👀 Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies — The Markup13 January 2024
🐦 Elon Musk Just Suspended Him From Twitter. Here’s Why He’s Not Going Anywhere — The Present Age12 December 2023
🐦 Twitter Is Just Running Ads for Stealing Semen Now — 40419 November 2023
📱 With Amo, the founder of Zenly wants to make social apps social again — TechCrunch18 October 2023
📐 Tracings — Are.na12 September 2023
🦤 When Twitter Died, So Did Independent Journalism — Dame Magazine21 August 2023
🕸️ The social network antithesis — Product Identity30 July 2023
🏚️ The (Cyber) Fall of the House of Usher — Analemma26 July 2023
❌ If other media companies thought about brand equity the way Elon Musk thinks about Twitter’s (er, X’s) — Nieman Journalism Lab11 July 2023
🥦 Against the “Eat Your Vegetables” Approach to Timeline Curation — The Present Age10 July 2023
🚉 Platforms run away from politics and news — Anchor Change5 July 2023
🧶 Meta unspools Threads — Platformer15 June 2023
🌐 A non-toxic social experience — WTS223 May 2023
🥤 TikTok’s “3 Drink Theory,” Explained — Bustle23 May 2023
🐦 Twitter will die of boredom — Boing Boing23 May 2023
📵 White House raises alarm on risks of social media for kids — Politico23 May 2023
📱 Mona for Mastodon App icon(s) — Chamline23 May 2023
🧴 Bioré and Influencer Apologize After School Shooting Ad — NY Times19 May 2023
⏲️ The All-American Inspiration for TikTok — The Atlantic19 May 2023
🐣 Instagram’s New App Could Be Here By June — ICYMI3 May 2023
🐦 Elon Musk threatens to reassign @NPR on Twitter to ‘another company’ — NPR