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The ‘Airbnb Alternative’ Black Market New York’s Airbnb crackdown has driven hosts and visitors back to Craigslist and neighborhood listserves.
By Kim Velsey
The Final Frontier for Helicopter Parents Inside the Facebook and WhatsApp groups where moms arrange playdates for their college kids.
By Juno DeMelo
screen time
Nov. 14, 2023
How Meta Is Monetizing the Decline of Facebook Have you heard about WhatsApp’s aggressive new ad strategy?
By John Herrman
screen time
Oct. 14, 2023
Why Wartime Social Media Is Hellish and Disorienting The Israel-Hamas war shows how platforms like Twitter are moving further downstream from reality.
By John Herrman
screen time
June 22, 2023
Why Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Quit Twitter He once tried to buy it. Now he’s creating a knockoff — and talking about a cage fight with Elon Musk.
By John Herrman
Everything We Know About the Investigation Into Andrew Tate The misogynist influencer will go to trial on charges of rape and human trafficking in Romania.
By Danielle Cohen
screen time
Apr. 28, 2023
The News Went Viral The media bet its future on Facebook. Did it learn from that mistake?
By John Herrman
unentangled
Apr. 27, 2023
By Zoe Guy
life in pixels
Mar. 15, 2023
Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse? Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.
By Paul Murray
silicon valley
Mar. 14, 2023
10,000 People at Meta Will Lose Their Jobs After Meta lost $700 billion in market cap last year, Mark Zuckerberg announced a mass layoff to make sure this is its “Year of Efficiency.”
By Matt Stieb
Tate-Pilled What a generation of boys have found in Andrew Tate’s extreme male gospel.
By Lisa Miller
A TikTok Ban Would Make for an Incredibly Strange Day on the Internet While it might not be the most probable course of events, it definitely could happen.
By John Herrman
street fights
Feb. 23, 2023
There’s a War Going on in Your Local Buy Nothing Group Behind that free Ikea bookshelf, splinter groups are breaking away from the founders’ vision of a “gifting economy.”
By Clio Chang
early and often
Feb. 9, 2023
Trump Can Post on Facebook and Instagram Again (If He Feels Like It) Meta has restored Trump’s accounts, but for now you’ll only find him sharing dubious polls and trashing Rihanna on Truth Social.
By Margaret Hartmann
on with kara swisher
Jan. 30, 2023
Kara Swisher on Mark Zuckerberg’s Never-ending Trump Problem She reflects on more than 15 years of covering Facebook and why bringing back Trump is a lose-lose.
By Intelligencer Staff
screen time
Jan. 26, 2023
How Much Does Unbanning Trump Really Matter? On the internet, you can never really go back home.
By John Herrman
tremendous content
Jan. 23, 2023
Trump and Truth Social Should Just Break Up Already He reportedly wants out of his contract with Truth Social, but instead of making a clean break, he’s asking for an open relationship with other sites.
By Margaret Hartmann
early and often
Jan. 19, 2023
Trump to Facebook: I Haven’t Changed, But Take Me Back Anyway Facebook deemed Trump a “risk to public safety.” Now he says the platform should unban him because “they need us more than we need them.”
By Margaret Hartmann
screen time
Jan. 19, 2023
Elon Musk and the Sad Mod Theory of Social-Media CEOs You may technically run the place, but most of your users just see you as a glorified moderator.
By John Herrman
The E.U.’s Judgment Against Meta Could Be a Big Deal The company was fined over $400 million for violating users’ privacy in a decision with far-reaching implications.
By Matt Stieb
Would You Like to Buy Kyrsten Sinema’s Heels? It appears the Arizona senator has a very active Facebook Marketplace account.
By Danielle Cohen
return to office
Nov. 16, 2022
The Office Is Half-Dead Or half-alive, depending on how you want to interpret the latest data.
By Clio Chang
screen time
Oct. 26, 2022
It’s Official: Meta Is a Disaster The dismal quarterly results make it clear that the company formerly known as Facebook is an absolute and total mess.
By John Herrman
screen time
Oct. 13, 2022
Why Your Boss’s Boss Wants You in the Metaverse Understanding the metaverse as a set of software tools that you might be told to use isn’t exciting — but at least it makes sense.
By John Herrman
scene report
Oct. 3, 2022
Every Man at This Party Is Vouched For Tired of “liars and manipulators,” a group of single women started a mixer for meeting guys you can actually trust.
By Bindu Bansinath
screen time
Sept. 26, 2022
TikTok Is the New King of Social Media. Now What? The video-sharing service faces perils old and new.
By John Herrman
celebrity weddings
Aug. 22, 2022
Sheryl Sandberg Got Married This Weekend She and Tom Bernthal had a western-themed wedding in Wyoming.
By Danielle Cohen
Andrew Tate Has Finally Been Banned From TikTok “The king of toxic masculinity” has also been kicked off Facebook and Instagram.
By Olivia Luppino
sustainability
Aug. 17, 2022
How Interior Designers Make the Most of Facebook Marketplace All you need is a little patience and lots of scrolling time.
By Brooke LaMantia
niche drama
July 13, 2022
What on Earth Is Going On in This Princess Diana Facebook Group? The fan page is apparently plagued with members posting about masturbation.
By Danielle Cohen
life after roe
July 1, 2022
Are Social-Media Platforms Censoring Information About Abortion? Facebook and Instagram have been restricting and removing posts intended to help people seeking reproductive care.
By Danielle Cohen
Quartz Tried Everything in 10 Years The media company that tried literally everything.
By Choire Sicha
Facebook Is Now Allowing Itself to Be Weaponized Meta’s decision to explicitly allow violent rhetoric against Russian soldiers and Vladimir Putin raises some very uncomfortable questions.
By Kevin T. Dugan
RT America Shuts Down Amid Russian State-Media Bans RT America released a memo today announcing layoffs in New York, L.A., Miami, and D.C.
By Rebecca Alter
Russia Puts Up an Information Iron Curtain Putin’s Kremlin banned Twitter and Facebook and effectively criminalized critical journalism, prompting an exodus of foreign press.
By Matt Stieb
mark zuckerberg
Feb. 18, 2022
Zuckerberg Has Burned $500 Billion Turning Facebook to Meta The social-media Goliath has fallen out of the top-ten largest companies in the world by market capitalization.
By Kevin T. Dugan
2022 midterms
Feb. 7, 2022
Peter Thiel to Leave Meta Board to Focus on Giving Republicans Money The conservative billionaire is pivoting to become a benefactor for Trump supporters he used to employ.
By Matt Stieb
the internet
Feb. 4, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse Has a Groping Problem The virtual-reality platform has implemented a four-foot personal barrier between avatars because of the behavior of some obnoxious users.
By Matt Stieb
Mark Zuckerberg’s Disaster Is Taking Silicon Valley With It Hundreds of billions of dollars disappeared overnight, and it may get worse.
By Kevin T. Dugan
silicon valley
Feb. 3, 2022
The Worst Day of Mark Zuckerberg’s Reign Facebook lost nearly $200 billion in value because while his head was in the metaverse, his company was being eaten alive in the real world.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the money game
Dec. 3, 2021
The Future of the Internet May Be Happening in Miami. So Where’s Facebook? NFT-mad Art Basel in Miami has become a frenzied search for the digital future. Just don’t mention Mark Zuckerberg.
By Kevin T. Dugan
Super-Apps Are Inevitable Get ready for the first $10 trillion tech company.
By Scott Galloway
better know a billionaire
Nov. 15, 2021
7 Weird and Utterly Fascinating Facts About Mark Zuckerberg Some things to know as Zuckerberg launches us into the metaverse — from his affinity for spear throwing to the time he used a “laser gun” on a goat.
By Eve Peyser
just asking questions
Nov. 8, 2021
Why Facebook’s Metaverse Is Dead on Arrival Scott Galloway thinks Mark Zuckerberg is exactly the wrong person to build an alternate reality.
By James D. Walsh
the facebook papers
Oct. 31, 2021
Planet Facebook The Facebook Papers reveal the absurdity of allowing a single company to run the world’s social media.
By Navneet Alang
no thanks mark
Oct. 29, 2021
Facebook Once Again Gives Us Something No One Asked For Yesterday, the corporation announced it would be rebranding as Meta.
By Mia Mercado
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