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Erik Carter / The Atlantic The End of the Silicon Valley Myth
The companies that define our digital lives have hit a wall.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Meta Oversight Board Has Some Genuinely Smart Suggestions
In its new decision, the board reveals some significant and insightful recommendations for how to improve speech online.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty America’s False Idols
Today’s tech billionaires think they’re self-made geniuses who deserve veneration. But we don’t have to believe that.
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Drew Angerer / Getty What Did Facebook Do Now?
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri both yielded to a new reality: TikTok is the social center of the internet.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Yes, Social Media Really Is Undermining Democracy
Despite what Meta has to say.
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The Atlantic The Horrors of No-News Facebook
Bible quotes and teddy bears forever
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Illustration by Nicolás Ortega. Source: "Belshazzar’s Feast," John … Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
It’s not just a phase.
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Ben Clarkson Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem
Most public activity on the platform comes from a tiny, hyperactive group of abusive users. Facebook relies on them to decide what everyone sees.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Dangerous Experiment on Teen Girls
The preponderance of the evidence suggests that social media is causing real damage to adolescents.
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Getty; The Atlantic I Made the World’s Blandest Facebook Profile, Just to See What Happens
My new Facebook account had the most generic interests possible, and still it brought me to a place no one should ever have to go.
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Getty; The Atlantic Nobody Can See Into Facebook
Imagine if automakers were the only ones who could test their cars—and they kept the results secret.
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Lambert/Getty ; Adam Maida / The Atlantic A Tiny Outrage Machine, Sucking the Exhaust From a Giant One
You can’t even fight a social network without a social network.
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Michel Baret / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago
It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Real Reason Facebook Changed Its Name
Mark Zuckerberg wants to be the hero of the metaverse because he knows Facebook is boring.
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Erik Carter How Facebook Fails 90 Percent of Its Users
Internal documents show the company routinely placing public-relations, profit, and regulatory concerns over user welfare. And if you think it’s bad here, look beyond the U.S.
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Irene Sousalo ‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it.
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GraphicaArtis / Getty People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.
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Ali Kahfi / Getty; Corbis / Getty; The … The Metaverse Is Bad
It is not a world in a headset but a fantasy of power.
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Getty; Paul Spella / The Atlantic What Happened When Facebook Became Boomerbook
Leaked documents reveal that a company that was once rebellious and optimistic is now bloated, regretful, and uncool.
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The Atlantic A Day Without Facebook
The social giant’s temporary disappearance means absolutely nothing.
