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The winners and losers of Taylor Swift’s engagement announcement
Mia Sato, The Verge
The world’s most famous celebrity couple got engaged, and the first place the news broke was on Instagram. By now, it’s not much of a surprise that pop star Taylor Swift and football player Travis Kelce opted to announce their engagement on the platform on Tu…
Aug 26, 2025, 7:04 PM
Fox News sees the power of Gavin Newsom’s trolling
Sophia Tesfaye, Salon
That’s why the network’s stars are fuming
Aug 24, 2025, 10:30 AM
This Week In Techdirt History: August 17th – 23rd
Leigh Beadon, Techdirt
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, a judge forbade a Facebook user being sued by a cop from publishing the cop’s name on social media, the DC police union was suing to block the release of the names of officers involved in shootings, and we wrote about how Sec…
Aug 23, 2025, 7:30 PM
Will Trump help 4Chan escape the UK’s internet police?
Tina Nguyen, The Verge
After the United Kingdom began enforcing its sweeping Online Safety Act in April, British regulator Ofcom served violation notices to three notorious sites: 4chan, Gab, and Kiwi Farms, each of which risked multimillion-dollar fines. Late last week, Preston By…
Aug 23, 2025, 12:43 AM
Amy Klobuchar Promotes Law Against Deepfakes While Denying She Said Sydney Sweeney Has ‘Perfect Titties’
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
"It had me saying vile things," writes the senator from Minnesota.
Aug 21, 2025, 5:35 PM
Are Any of Gavin Newsom’s Tweets Actually Funny?
Opheli Garcia Lawler, Cracked.com
By Opheli Garcia Lawler Published: August 21st, 2025
Aug 21, 2025, 1:30 PM
The White House Just Joined TikTok, Five Years After Trump First Tried To Ban It
staff@bgr.com (Andy Meek), BGR
President Trump attempted to ban TikTok in his first term, but five years later, the White House has created its own TikTok account.
Aug 20, 2025, 8:45 PM
White House Joins TikTok, The Social Network Trump Once Promised to Ban
Matt Growcoot, PetaPixel
The White House has launched an official TikTok account, six months after the app was supposed to be sold or banned in the United States. [Read More]
Aug 20, 2025, 3:33 PM
Trump White House Joins TikTok As Ban Deadline Looms; “I Am Your Voice,” POTUS Tells Followers
Ted Johnson, Deadline
The White House has launched a TikTok account, even as the app’s Chinese parent company faces a deadline next month to divest the social media platform. The account debuted on Tuesday and is up to almost 122,000 followers. That is a fraction of the more than …
Aug 20, 2025, 2:26 PM
“I thought they hated Trump,” the Fox host said after Newsom’s office mocked her for telling him to get serious.
The Daily Beast, Daily Beast
Fox News host Dana Perino got heated over California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s all-caps posts mocking President Donald Trump’s chaotic Truth Social style. Perino’s...
Aug 20, 2025, 4:56 AM
Trump’s White House takes to TikTok as deadline looms to ban platform
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
The new account comes as Trump has three times delayed implementing a 'sell or ban' law for the Chinese-owned app.
Aug 20, 2025, 4:41 AM
The White House just joined TikTok a month before it's set to be banned (again)
Kelsey Vlamis, Business Insider
The White House joined TikTok less than a month before it could face a ban, though Trump has already extended the deadline three times.
Aug 20, 2025, 1:51 AM
The White House launches an official TikTok account, with the aim of communicating President Trump's policies (Steve Holland/Reuters)
Techmeme.com
Steve Holland / Reuters: The White House launches an official TikTok account, with the aim of communicating President Trump's policies — The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, taking advantage of its more than 150 million U.S. users…
Aug 19, 2025, 11:25 PM
Chris Pratt’s Online Haters Feel Vindicated By His Dumb Endorsement of RFK Jr.
Opheli Garcia Lawler, Cracked.com
By Opheli Garcia Lawler Published: August 19th, 2025
Aug 19, 2025, 5:31 PM
Palestine was the problem with TikTok
Sarah Jeong, The Verge
In the last month, the war in Gaza has become an inescapable facet of the public consciousness as a new surge of images of Palestinian children - their faces impossibly sunken, their limbs reduced to skin and bone - flooded the internet. As the pictures becam…
Aug 19, 2025, 4:14 PM
Despite Online MAGA Freakout About Her Jeans, Sydney Sweeney’s New Movie Bombs
Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo.com
Sometimes it's good to remember that the internet is not a real place.
Aug 18, 2025, 9:30 PM
An Account Using the Same Name as Trump's BLS Pick Posted Red-Pilled Conspiracy Theories
David Gilbert, Wired
A WIRED review of a now-deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein.
Aug 18, 2025, 9:25 PM
Trump Lashes Out at Chuck Schumer in Truth Social Post, Claims U.S. Is in Democrats' Grasp
NBC, Yahoo Entertainment
Seth addresses Trump mocking Apple CEO Tim Cook in front of reporters, the president of Switzerland managing to broker a deal to reduce the country's 39...
Aug 8, 2025, 8:35 AM
Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News
Jess Weatherbed, The Verge
Donald Trump’s Truth Social has launched a new AI search feature that consistently pushes conservative media sources. The feature, Truth Search AI, is powered by the AI startup Perlexity and is now available on the web version of Trump’s social media platform…
Aug 7, 2025, 2:04 PM
Trump Media Is Testing an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity
Gael Cooper, CNET
The president's media company is beta-testing Truth Search AI, but will the results lean toward conservative opinions?
Aug 7, 2025, 12:35 AM
Trump Deletes and Reposts Tweet About Sydney Sweeney Several Times
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
The president is yelling at the TV again.
Aug 4, 2025, 5:30 PM
Trump Jokes About UK’s New Law ‘Censoring’ Truth Social (While Sitting Next to the British PM)
Matt Novak, Gizmodo.com
The president also said some wild things about Jeffrey Epstein.
Jul 28, 2025, 6:40 PM
Piers Morgan Dances on Comedy Grave of Stephen Colbert
Matt Solomon, Cracked.com
Morgan takes to X and YouTube to kick Colbert while he's down
Jul 28, 2025, 2:30 PM
No, Instagram didn’t suspend Zohran Mamdani’s account for being ‘too socialist’
Mia Sato, The Verge
In a story published earlier this week, a site called “NYC Journals” claimed to have a bombshell: that Instagram had suspended the account of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for being “too socialist.” The story claimed that Mamdani’s account was dow…
Jul 24, 2025, 9:04 PM