But a new terrorism indictment shows the reckoning is only just beginning
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Telegram changes its tune
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How Russians are changing up their election interference
A wave of new indictments tells us what has changed since 2016 — and what hasn’t
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X gets banned in Brazil
For once, Elon Musk has a case worth fighting — but he has to do it in the courts
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The three cases against Telegram
Pavel Durov has a lot to answer for — but how he is prosecuted could reshape the internet
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Zuckerberg draws a new line on government pressure
PLUS: Telegram's French press
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How Telegram played itself
Pavel Durov’s arrest over the weekend was shocking. It was also inevitable
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How influence campaigns stopped working
It turns out that social networks are less susceptible to 2016-style attacks — and no one likes AI slop
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Three apps that made me more productive this year
Lessons on taking smarter notes, reducing context switching, and building a better personal archive
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Trump deepfakes a Swift endorsement
The Shitpost Election continues
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California's controversial AI bill is on the verge of becoming law
California’s SB-1047 is on a path to the governor’s desk. Will it kill the AI boom?
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Trump’s fakes a deepfake claim
PLUS: Trump goes to Spaces
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X is just a political project now
As Trump returns to posting, and Musk leans even further into right-wing conspiracy theories, X has reached its final form. PLUS: On Susan Wojcicki
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Three reasons we’re in an AI bubble (and four reasons we’re not)
AI critics are right about the industry’s challenges — but they risk missing the larger story
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X sues the advertising industry
The case is part of a larger conservative project to weaponize the courts against content moderation — and it appears to be gaining momentum
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Google has a search monopoly, judge rules
Europe never found a remedy that increased search competition. Will the United States fare any better?
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The AI companies are trying to go legit
The era of scraping and praying is coming to an end. But will the web be any better off when it does?
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KOSA and COPPA 2.0 pass the Senate
But passing the House might be another story
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Welcome to the shitpost election
Forget what’s true and false. Did you hear about J.D. Vance and the couch?
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Sam Altman calls for an AI coalition
AI leaders are promoting the idea of an arms race — but the hype is getting ahead of the technology. PLUS: KOSA makes a comeback
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Meta unleashes its Llama
The company's open-source AI is now roughly on par with rivals from OpenAI and Google. Should we worry?
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How Kamala Harris sees the tech industry
Plus: Zuckerberg and Trump, is X "back," and other questions about the brand-new 2024 presidential campaign
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How the world is ceding AI to America
As regulations pile up in Europe, South America, and elsewhere, it’s still full speed ahead in the United States
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The e/accs inch closer to the White House
How billionaire donors, a new policy framework, and Trump’s VP pick promise to steamroll the AI safety movement
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An assassination attempt for the social media age
On a dark day for democracy, the rules of the 2020 internet no longer apply
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Adam Mosseri on the first year of Threads
With more than 175 million monthly users, Meta has its sights set on overtaking Twitter
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The Supreme Court gives a green light to jawboning
A decision this week should mean Russia won't easily be able to repeat its 2016 propaganda campaign — but First Amendment advocates still have concerns
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Snap tackles the teen sextortion problem
What will it take to stop an epidemic of suicides among teenage boys?
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The record labels come for AI
Another industry recognizes a bad bargain when it sees one
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How to stop Perplexity and save the web from bad AI
We can still have the internet we want — but we have to try new business models
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Election deepfakes make a shallow impact
The world braced for the worst — but so far, politicians are using generative AI in mostly conventional ways