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She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired
Huo Jingnan, NPR
Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."
Oct 11, 2025, 9:00 AM
The Persistent Pull of Planet Epstein
Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker
Jay Caspian Kang on the waning trust in traditional news media and the growing popularity of content creators who believe in conspiracies involving Jeffrey Epstein.
Oct 10, 2025, 10:00 AM
RFK Jr. Complains About TikTok Video of Woman Taking Tylenol With a ‘Baby in Her Placenta’
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
"If you have a fetus in your placenta then something has gone quite wrong," one Bluesky user noted.
Oct 9, 2025, 7:10 PM
New York City sues social media companies, alleging they 'created a youth mental health crisis'
Katherine Li, Business Insider
The plaintiffs said that social media companies have a created a "youth mental health crisis" and encouraged risky behaviors like "subway surfing."
Oct 9, 2025, 1:21 AM
What’s Going on With the Alleged Taylor Swift AI Videos?
David Browne, Rolling Stone
Some TikTok users have been sharing clues that they say point toward the pop star using AI to create promos for The Life of a Showgirl
Oct 8, 2025, 6:08 PM
AOC says people are being 'algorithmically polarized' by social media
Bryan Metzger, Business Insider
"There are people that are living in a MAGA universe online," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And that happens as well in progressive content and algorithms."
Oct 7, 2025, 7:49 PM
Banning controversy reveals Bluesky's decentralized aspiration isn't reality
Matthew Sheffield, Flux.community
Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent
Oct 7, 2025, 7:44 PM
TikTok’s MAGA Overlords Return to Their Conquered Territory
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
Trump and Vance have returned to TikTok after almost a year of posting no videos.
Oct 7, 2025, 4:05 PM
CBS News was just taken over by a Substack
Emma Roth, The Verge
Paramount is acquiring The Free Press, an independent media publication started on Substack. As part of the deal, Paramount is installing The Free Press’s founder, Bari Weiss, as the editor-in-chief of CBS News, according to an announcement on Monday. Before …
Oct 6, 2025, 2:09 PM
Trump Pressures Google & YouTube TV To Restore Univision Access Because Of Network’s Favorable Coverage
Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline
In a Truth Social post made yesterday, President Donald Trump pressed Google-owned YouTube TV to restore access to Univision, citing the Spanish-language broadcast network’s favorable coverage of him and Republicans as reason for doing so. “I hope Univision, …
Oct 5, 2025, 8:51 PM
The Internet Reacts To Taylor Swift’s New Album
Kenneth Shepard, Kotaku
The Life of a Showgirl is streaming now, and people are figuring out how they feel in real time The post The Internet Reacts To Taylor Swift’s New Album appeared first on Kotaku.
Oct 3, 2025, 6:36 PM
Trump Posts Bizarre AI Video of Project 2025 Architect as the Grim Reaper
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
It used to be considered unusual for a U.S. president to do things like this.
Oct 3, 2025, 4:55 PM
Elon Musk Says “Good” To Rep. Tim Burchett’s Proposal To Question Netflix About ‘Dead End: Paranormal Park’
Greg Evans, Deadline
Elon Musk, a leading, or at least the loudest, voice in the recent campaign against Netflix centering on the 2022-2023 animated series Dead End: Paranormal Park apparently supports a stated effort by Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) to have Netflix officials appear b…
Oct 3, 2025, 4:27 PM
Senator Cassidy Takes To ExTwitter, Radio To Rail Against RFK Jr., Whom He Voted To Confirm
Timothy Geigner, Techdirt
I’ll start with this: I am certainly not fully politically aligned with Senator Bill Cassidy, but I have typically found him to be genuine and intelligent. Points of disagreement aside, he doesn’t strike me as a grifter or psychopath, which is unfortunately q…
Oct 2, 2025, 10:37 PM
Algorithm Nation
Jacob Weisberg, The New York Review of Books
Fights about digital filtering tools have turned more and more bitter. That's because of their extraordinary power to shape both political opinion and mass culture.
Oct 2, 2025, 12:00 PM
Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
Jay Peters, The Verge
Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents. When making the search abou…
Sep 30, 2025, 9:17 PM
TikTok, #freedom edition
Tina Nguyen, The Verge
Hello and welcome to Regulator. Today is the last day of The Verge's very good subscription sale: $4 for a month and $35 for the year, for full access to the entire site. Don't delay! When we launched Regulator two months ago, the premise was that I'd write a…
Sep 30, 2025, 9:00 PM
Elon Musk’s Wikipedia Competitor Is Going to Be a Disaster
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
Remember when Grok praised Adolf Hitler?
Sep 30, 2025, 8:10 PM
YouTube to Pay $24.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Banning Trump After His Coup Attempt
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
Trump was booted from the major platforms after trying to remain president in 2021.
Sep 30, 2025, 12:45 PM
Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine
Karl Bode, Techdirt
After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies who don’t believe in privacy and want to use TikTok to spread right wing p…
Sep 30, 2025, 12:22 PM
YouTube to pay $24.5m to settle lawsuit over Trump’s account suspension
John Power, Al Jazeera English
Video platform settles lawsuit filed in response to Trump's suspension over the January 6, 2021, riot at US Capitol.
Sep 30, 2025, 3:27 AM
YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension
Bobby Allyn, NPR
YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.
Sep 29, 2025, 11:16 PM
YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5 million settlement
Jay Peters, The Verge
YouTube has settled a lawsuit President Donald Trump filed against the company in 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump filed sweeping lawsuits against Google-owned YouTube, Meta (then Facebook) and X (then Twitter) after he was suspended from the…
Sep 29, 2025, 11:16 PM
YouTube to pay $24.5m to settle Trump lawsuit over Capitol riot
BBC News
The streaming giant is the last company to settle with the president after suspending his account in the wake of the 6 January attack in 2021.
Sep 29, 2025, 11:06 PM