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Taylor Lorenz TikTok Stars Are Preparing to Take Over the Internet
A new wave of online creators is here.
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Jenny Kane / Associated Press Wayfair Should Have Seen This Coming
In leaked audio, the home-goods retailer’s co-founder seemed surprised that his company was being forced to take a political stance.
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Jeff Chiu / AP When a Country Bans Social Media
Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: What if a global media network is impossible?
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Ruby Aitken Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem
The home-rental start-up says it’s cracking down on hosts who record guests. Is it doing enough?
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Associated Press Social Media Are a Mass Shooter’s Best Friend
A terrorist attack in New Zealand cast new blame on how technology platforms police content. But global internet services were designed to work this way, and there might be no escape from their grip.
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Pat Benic / Reuters The People Who Hated the Web Even Before Facebook
As the World Wide Web turns 30, a look back at its early skeptics
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Lisa Baertlein / Reuters The Servant Economy
Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Is This the End of Recycling?
Americans are consuming more and more stuff. Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastics, they’re ending up in the trash.
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Shutterstock When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online
Googling yourself has become a rite of passage.
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Mark Lennihan / AP Amazon’s Retreat and the New Politics of Tech
What Amazon pulling out of Queens means for the urban growth machine
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rSnapshotPhotos / andrea crisante / kai celvin / ... When Wall Street Is Your Landlord
With help from the federal government, institutional investors became major players in the rental market. They promised to return profits to their investors and convenience to their tenants. Investors are happy. Tenants are not.
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Cliff Owen / AP Jeff Bezos Brings the Receipts
The Amazon founder is at war with a tabloid.
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Why People Still Don’t Buy Groceries Online
We shop online for almost everything. Why not food?
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Rick Friedman / Corbis via Getty Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard
On the 15th anniversary of Facebook’s launch at Harvard, a dozen students and faculty members reflect on seeing and being the first users of the world’s largest social network.
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Anton Starikov / creativestockexchange / Shutterstock / Katie ... The World-Record Instagram Egg Is Going to Make Someone Very Rich
“Being the first brand to crack out of the egg is worth at least $10 million.”
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Mark and Colleen Hayward / Getty Images Go Ahead, Post the Stupid Photo of Yourself From 10 Years Ago
Critics have raised fears that the pictures could be used for corporate surveillance, but this is a molehill on the mountain.
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Amazon / vipman / Gemenacom / Shutterstock / ... How to Lose Tens of Thousands of Dollars on Amazon
A growing number of self-proclaimed experts promise they can teach anyone how to make a passive income selling cheap Chinese goods in the internet's largest store. Not everyone’s getting rich quick.
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Roman Samborskyi / Shutterstock / The Atlantic When a Sponsored Facebook Post Doesn’t Pay Off
The agency Speakr set influencers up with brands for lucrative campaigns—and then stiffed them.
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Reuters / Elijah Nouvelage Facebook Didn’t Sell Your Data; It Gave It Away
In exchange for even more data about you from Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Microsoft, and others
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Shutterstock Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content
“It’s street cred—the more sponsors you have, the more credibility you have.”
