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Former U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that his campaign was in talks with Meta Platforms about a possible return to Facebook and Instagram, two years after the company banned him for inciting violence.
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His accounts will be reinstated in the 'coming weeks,' an executive for Meta, which runs the sites, said in a Wednesday statement.
The platform has changed. And operatives in both parties aren’t convinced that Trump can dominate there again.
Former President Donald Trump's White House asked Twitter to censor one of Chrissy Teigen's tweets after she referred to him as a "p---y ass b---h," an ex-Twitter employee told a congressional hearing Wednesday.
The artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has listed Elon Musk, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and others as controversial public figures.
Late-night hosts discuss a visit to the toxic derailment site in Ohio, and eerie messages from Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot
The conservative ecosystem is engaged in a battle for the future of the party, with Trump as a main divide.
"I'M BACK!" reads the title of his first YouTube video since the ban.
Former President Donald Trump has posted on Facebook for the first time since January 6, 2021, the day that rioters attacked the US Capitol.
Donald Trump’s Truth Social account is a daily advertisement for a sense of political desperation seemingly at odds with his position in a Republican field he currently dominates.
Photos appearing to show Donald Trump getting arrested have gone viral on Twitter. But they aren’t real. They were made with AI technology Midjourney.
"Not everyone is up to speed on how quickly the generative AI and deep fake space is evolving," Henry Ajder, expert in examining synthetic media, told Newsweek.
If former President Donald Trump has proven anything, it’s that we still aren’t ready for the era of instantaneous communication.
Donald Trump’s lawyer has said he wouldn’t attempt to defend the former president’s recent social media posts in relation to a possible criminal indictment, stating that he was “not a social media consultant”.
Twitter's legacy blue ticks are vanishing from high-profile users' accounts, including those of Beyoncé, Pope Francis, and Donald Trump. The social media platform owned by Elon Musk has introduced a monthly fee for users to keep their blue verification checkmarks. Find out more about the costs and the implications for journalists, athletes, public figures, and other celebrity users
The legacy checkmarks began disappearing towards the end of Thursday
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Celebrities who lost blue checks on Twitter include Beyoncé, Pope Francis, Oprah Winfrey, former President Donald Trump
Some of the prominent public figures who lost their blue check marks on Twitter on Thursday included Pope Francis, Beyoncé, and former President Donald Trump.
Ron DeSantis has long been seen as Donald Trump’s leading rival for the Republican nomination.
Ron DeSantis has long been seen as Donald Trump’s leading rival for the Republican nomination.
Trump, who announced in November, has also had a head start in organizing his campaign in key early voting states. "We must end the culture of losing that has infected the Republican Party in recent years," DeSantis said in the event with Musk once it resumed following a lengthy interruption.
Donald Trump's 2024 election campaign is already coming in for hits from Twitter's new Community Notes — which provides fact checks or additional context.
Most Republican 2024 hopefuls will hit the campaign trail today, while one got the day started early with a little online taunting.
The former Fox News host grilled GOP candidates on Ukraine at the annual evangelical forum in Iowa.
Twitter fined $350,000 for delayed compliance with search warrant for records on Trump's account.
In a series of bizarre tweets, his account falsely announced the death of former U.S. President Donald Trump.
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President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign launched its own account on former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social.
Tesla founder Elon Musk has reached his first year anniversary of owning Twitter (which he rebranded to X in July), a tenure which has seen him overhaul the verification system on the social media platform, reinstate controversial users such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate, and layoff thousands of employees in a bid to save money.
Stories about Mike Johnson, Hasan Minhaj, Sam Bankman-Fried, the life of a corn maze designer, and more.
Ruby Freeman's lawyer clashed in court with the attorney for Harrison Floyd as a hearing on potential bond violations by the Trump co-defendant unfolded in Fulton County, Georgia, Tuesday. At issue is whether Floyd harassed people on social media. The conditions of his release pending trial include ...
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A video clip showing a man in military uniform praying for U.S. President Joe Biden to be replaced by his predecessor Donald Trump while sharing the stage with Biden at an event in Norfolk, Virginia, has been flipped horizontally and contains an altered audio track.
Donald Trump admitted Tuesday he dodged testifying in own fraud trial because of a gag order banning him from commenting on court staff in his $250 million fraud trial.Trump took to Truth Social Monday to decry both Justice Arthur Engoron — who has said he has received credible death threats during ...
Former President Trump knocked Republican presidential challenger Nikki Haley on Monday, touting his wide lead in polling just over a month out from the first primary contest. “Where’s the Nikki Surge?” Trump wrote in a post on his platform Truth Social. “I hear about it from the Fake News Media, but don’t see it in…
Special counsel Jack Smith plans to call witnesses who have analyzed data extracted from former President Trump’s cellphone, including one who can weigh in on his Twitter habits and another who has analyzed the movement of the Jan. 6, 2021, crowd following Trump’s speech that day. The Monday filing is the first indication of how…
McConnell, Pelosi and Gaetz pages are also among the worst
Trump spent Christmas going down through his perceived enemies list.
Previously, Donald Trump called his opponents 'vermin' during a Veterans Day speech, alarming many people, including Democrats.
Trump posts Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' website after she ruled he is ineligible under 14th Amendment.
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Maine became the second state to keep Trump off the primary ballot over challenges stemming from Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution
The viral photograph had various signs of being AI-generated.
Former president calls verdict ‘absolutely ridiculous’ and accuses Biden of directing ‘witch-hunt’ against him and Republicans
Former President Trump urged his followers to give Anheuser-Busch a “second chance,” after months of criticism the company has faced in from conservatives. “The Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social website on Tuesday, referencing a brief partnership the company had with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney that…
Donald Trump ally and election-denying lawyer Ken Chesebro was lied to Michigan prosecutors when he claimed he never used one of his social media accounts, a new report suggests — he had a "burner" account on the site "X," which contradicts what he told the prosecutors. Harvard constitutional law pr...
Former president Donald Trump took a virtual victory lap Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled it would take up his presidential immunity case.Trump suggested that the court’s decision to hear arguments — flatly rejected by a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel loath to grant presidents “unbounded...
Trump took to Truth Social on Thursday to conduct his own real-time commentary during Biden's State of the Union address.
The meeting came just over a year after Musk had locked down a deal to buy Twitter
Donald Trump hit out at illegal immigration into the United States in a new video published on his Truth Social website.
For days, Donald Trump’s fury over the requirement to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in bond money by Monday has been bubbling behind the scenes and through a steady stream of social media posts.
A merger deal involving former President Trump’s Truth Social platform is the latest financial twist in the White House race as he looks to close the fundraising gap with President Biden. Biden’s campaign operation has been significantly outraising Trump’s a couple of months into 2024 even as polls show a close race nationally with Trump leading…
Outside of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement, his Truth Social platform is struggling to find a wider audience. It is hemorrhaging users, and its traffic has plummeted.
President Joe Biden's reelection campaign lambasted Trump for comparing himself to Nelson Mandela.
The former president wrote on Truth Social that he would "gladly become a Modern Day Nelson Mandela," adding it would be a "great honor."
Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump on Saturday compared himself to South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, sparking quick and virulent criticism from President Joe Biden's campaign team.
US President Joe Biden has taken a jibe at his rival, Republican presumptive candidate Donald Trump, by posting a message about the Total Solar Eclipse 2024, reminding people about safety.In a video...
Shares of Donald Trump's media and technology firm fell as much as 12% on Monday, extending a selloff that has now reduced the value of his stake in the operator of Truth Social to $2.9 billion.
Shares of Trump Media have erased all their gains since they began trading under the ticker DJT last month.
Former President Donald Trump's Truth Social stock continued to circle the drain Monday as financial experts warned he may have broken the law trying to prop up the price. Trump Media shares lost 8 percent Monday after losing 12 percent Friday, according to an analysis from Boston's NPR station WBU...
The more an asset price is disconnected from its fundamentals, the more potential it has to go “to the moon”.
Presented by TechNet — {beacon} Technology Technology PRESENTED BY The Big Story Trump Media stock falls as downward slide continues Shares in Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of former President Trump’s Truth Social platform, continued to fall at the start of the trading week Monday, dipping another 8 percent. © Yuki…
Donald Trump is going to war with National Public Radio, according to a new Truth Social Post. Trump into an attack on public funding for public radio in a rant Wednesday, taking up a common theme voiced by Republicans for years. It followed a public letter written by NPR's senior business editor hi...
The request was made on Monday ahead of jury selection.
Like its owner, shares of Trump Media & Technology Group (NASDAQ:DJT) have been extremely volatile over the past year. First trading under ...
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin Monday revealed one major reason that Donald Trump's lawyers are fighting so hard to keep certain tweets he sent as president out of his criminal hush money trial.Rubin stood outside the Manhattan court where Trump stands accused of covering up money paid to adult film...
The former president was ordered to pay the fine by the end of the week, and he deleted, as ordered, the offending posts from his Truth Social account.
Former President Donald Trump took a break from his criminal hush money trial to tell Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to cool it. Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday afternoon a video statement calling on Greene (R-GA) to give up on her "majority of one" quest to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson. ...
Longtime Donald Trump friend and confidant Roger Stone came under fire on Sunday after posting an unrelated photo in an effort to show that the state of New Jersey could be won by Trump in the upcoming 2024 election.Trump spoke in the Garden state on Saturday, and was criticized for his apparent slu...
Whoopi Goldberg has recently lashed out at former President Donald Trump after he said she was widely disliked in a social media post over the weekend.Speaking on the latest episode of The View on...
In divergent messages, president pays tribute to fallen heroes, while Trump fulminates on social media against opponents
Donald Trump used a Memorial Day post to excoriate a federal judge and E. Jean Carroll, who recently won a defamation verdict against the former president.
Trump was ranting about standard New York courtroom procedure, which his legal team failed to educate him about.
Musk planned to make X a "common digital town square"
A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he had a "very good call" on Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and pledged to end the war pitting Kyiv against Moscow through negotiations.
Trump has said he will end the war in Ukraine before he even takes office in January, if he wins the presidential election.
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he had a "very good call" with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and pledged to end the war pitting Ukraine against Russia through negotiations.
Twitch restored ex-President Donald Trump's ban on the Amazon-owned platform after a three year absence. c
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Selkis claimed the shooting was an ‘inside job’ and called for ‘literal war’ against Trump’s detractors.
The former president's temporary ban in 2020 became indefinite following the January 6 riot
Democrats may soon nominate a presidential candidate capable of rivaling GOP nominee Donald Trump in memeability.
A week after Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president, President Joe Biden's team used Musk's social media platform X — in addition to more neutral spaces such as Facebook and Instagram — to announce he is ending his reelection campaign.
The FBI says the gunman acted alone, and the Secret Service says there’s no evidence of a second shooter. That hasn’t stopped the speculation online.
Elon Musk repeatedly accused Google of being biased against former President Donald Trump in a series of X posts.
Michigan’s secretary of state’s office is investigating a political action committee backed by Elon Musk for possible state law violations. America PAC, which has been acquiring voter information, is under review and potential violations will be referred to the state’s attorney general. Musk, who has publicly endorsed Trump and espoused right-wing views, has not commented […]
When former President Donald Trump last week reasserted his unsubstantiated claim that immigrants are “taking Black jobs,” the phrasing once again became internet fodder.
Donald Trump is set to be interviewed live on X by its billionaire owner, Elon Musk, on Monday. Musk, a prominent supporter of Trump, aims to help the former Republican president rekindle online...
The billionaire’s super PAC has had early stumbles as he tackles national politics in his trademark chaos-be-damned style.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's scheduled interview with Elon Musk on the billionaire entrepreneur's social media platform X ran into technical difficulties at the outset, with some users having difficulty accessing the live stream.
Republican nominee, who has lost momentum as Kamala Harris has surged, to speak with Tesla boss in special event
Donald Trump will make a comeback on X, the platform that banned him after the Capitol riot. He will have an unscripted interview with owner Elon Musk, giving him a chance to reach millions of voters and help X redeem itself. However, there are concerns about harmful content and the EU has urged Musk to […]
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The Harris campaign cut off part of Trump’s message in a screenshot-style post, and has run Google search ads that put glowing headlines on real news articles.
Owner of Truth Social app also hurt by weak quarterly results
Along with the polls, the popular perceptions and media coverage, too, has shifted away from Trump
Trump posts image of fake Taylor Swift endorsement
Former US president Donald Trump on Sunday took a jibe at rival and US Vice President Kamala Harris by sharing an AI-generated image which appeared to have a resemblance to Kamala Harris.
Taylor Swift has endorsed Kamala Harris, not Donald Trump, despite Trump’s social post implying otherwise. ‘Swifties for Trump’ images were made with AI.
Former President Donald Trump has been active on his social accounts as Democrats gather for their convention in Chicago, but many of his posts don’t have much to do with reality.
A comedian with an incredible Donald Trump impersonation was asked on Sunday to defend from attacks on Robert F. Kennedy's alleged "brain worm."One panelist questioned whether Kennedy could actually help Trump convince more independent voters, given the fact that Kennedy himself is known as an ant...
First it was "Covfefe," and now it's "Powerfulnnz." Donald Trump early Sunday morning released a Truth Social post with multiple errors, resulting in mockery in the comments. He then deleted the statement. Trump took to his social media network to hail the Border Patrol Union's leadership, whi...
The former US president began posting a string of messages after special counsel Jack Smith filed a new indictment against him.
TikTok video with a picture of Lady Gaga and audio with anti-Trump remarks has gone viral, but Lady Gaga isn’t the one speaking in the video. It’s another TikToker.
The reposted comment, originally shared by another user, included photos of Harris and Hillary Clinton with the caption: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently…”
"I call it my typewriter," Trump said of his Truth Social posts.
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Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, publicly endorsed Donald Trump for the first time in the US presidential race in July this year, calling the Republican former president "tough."
Soon after Harris, a Democrat, finished debating her Republican rival Donald Trump, Swift, 34, told her 283 million followers that Harris and running mate Tim Walz would get her vote in the Nov. 5 election.
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. jumped Friday after former President Donald Trump said he won't sell shares of the social media company.
An Ohio woman whose Facebook post sparked harmful rumours about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield — accusations repeated by former president Donald Trump at Tuesday’s debate — has admitted
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A small Ohio city has been inundated with hoax bomb threats since last week's presidential debate, when former President Donald Trump falsely accused members of Springfield's
After Trump proclaimed 'I hate Taylor Swift' Sunday, Mahomes was reportedly left shaken 'to the core' and is reconsidering how she feels about the GOP presidential candidate.
Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump's 2024 running mate, continues to fuel the firestorm surrounding Springfield, Ohio, with false claims about Haitian mig...
Donald Trump over the weekend boasted about meeting his foreign leader "friends" at Mar-a-Lago, but the ex-president's supporters didn't take it very well. Trump took to his own social media network, Truth Social, on Sunday to thank multiple Middle Eastern leaders for meeting with him. "It was...
The Republican presidential candidate insulted Harris, calling her 'mentally impaired' and 'mentally disabled.' On the other hand, he called immigrants who commit violent crimes 'monsters' and 'vile animals.'
Some Snoopy fans are enraged that an account dedicated to the beloved character is engaging with politics.
Charlie Kirk warned that millions of born-again and mainline Christians not voting could seriously threaten Trump's reelection.
LEGENDARY American actor Aidan Quinn has recalled losing some of his pals due to their support of Donal Trump.The Legends of The Fall actor sat down w
Four people involved in the group's outreach told Reuters that managers warned canvassers they are missing targets and needed to raise the number of would-be voters they contact
Donald Trump's efforts to get people to vote for him in two battleground states have been flagged as "potentially fake," according to a new report.Trump enlisted the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, to help him with the campaign's get-out-the-vote plan, including in Arizona and Nevada. But those...
Trump’s episode of the Joe Rogan Experience has now amassed over 20-million views on YouTube in 20 hours since its release – and now supporters are urging Kamala to book an appearance.
The interview, released late Friday, came on the same day that the former president, on his social media network, re-posted threats to prosecute lawyers, voters and election officials he deems to have "cheated" in the 2024 election.
Podcaster Joe Rogan’s three-hour-long interview with former president Donald Trump has racked up more than 34 million views since it was posted on Friday – but the video remains buried under pages of less relevant results, leading fans to question whether YouTube is censoring the episode.
YouTube acknowledged searches for Joe Rogan's Donald Trump interview were not 'prominently' displaying the original podcast episode.
Donald Trump’s Truth Social is now worth more than Elon Musk’s X. That's thanks to a recent run-up in the shares of the parent company of the former president’s social media platform.
Trump Media & Technology Group is now valued at over $10 billion after its shares more than quadrupled since late September.
Nicky Jam has withdrawn his endorsement of Donald Trump after Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist jokes at MSG. ‘Puerto Rico deserves respect,’ the reggaeton artist said.
Scarlett Johansson made a call and assembled The Avengers to defeat Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election and vote for Kamala Harris.
Conservative activists claim X is censoring them for being critical of its owner, Elon Musk.
Social-media giant’s shift makes it latest company in trend that could affect Canadian online policy
The company also said it was working to resolve an issue where some words, including "Democrats" and "Republican," were blocked from Instagram search.
Meta Platforms will pay $25 million to resolve a lawsuit President Trump brought in 2021 over the suspension of his social media accounts after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Elon Musk, the world's richest person and a top advisor to US President Donald Trump, said he has no interest in acquiring social media platform TikTok's
A worker for Elon Musk’s xAI tweaked Grok to block reports of Elon Musk and Donald Trump spreading misinformation.
Roughly 200 people gathered outside a Gold Coast Tesla dealership on Saturday, taking part in nationwide protests against Elon Musk and the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency.
The events – expected in Ottawa, Saskatoon, and other cities – are the latest demonstrations by those who object to the role Elon Musk has played in the Trump administration
Crowds protesting billionaire Elon Musk’s purge of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump began amassing outside Tesla dealerships throughout the U.S. Saturday in the latest attempt to dent the fortune of the world’s richest man.
US President Donald Trump has said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok up and running in the United States for an additional 75 days.
The president has recently entertained an array of offers from US businesses seeking to buy a share of the popular social media site.
Deleting social media apps completely and leaving phones or other devices at home are other tips being recommended.
United States President Donald Trump sparked outrage after sharing a mock-up of himself dressed as the Pope just a week after attending the funeral of Francis at the Vatican
U.S. President Donald Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as pope as the mourning of Pope Francis continues and just days before the conclave to elect his successor is set to begin.
The image, shared Friday night on Trump's Truth Social site and later reposted by the White House on its official X account, raised eyebrows on social media and at the
With just days left before the start of the papal conclave — where a new leader of the Catholic Church will be selected — Trump took to his Truth Social platform to share an AI-generated image of himself dressed up as the Pope, inspiring many memes and even more backlash.
In the fake video, Wintour said she didn't want Trump supporters shouting "Make fashion great again" near the red carpet.
Former FBI director James Comey met with U.S. Secret Service after a social media post featuring '8647' sparked accusations from Trump supporters of threatening the president. The post's controversial interpretation led to an investigation into its intent, with Comey denying any sinister connotations and removing the content immediately.
In social media posts, president also slammed Walmart for price increases and spread anti-Clinton conspiracy theories
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The US has paused new visa appointments for foreign students and exchange visitors. The move comes as the Trump administration plans to expand social media checks for applicants.
The U.S. State Department has temporarily suspended scheduling new visa interviews for foreign students as it prepares to enhance social media vetting. This move could impact international student enrollments, affecting university budgets. Social media checks were initiated during Trump's presidency and continue under Biden's administration.
The US State Department has temporarily paused new visa interviews for international students, preparing for expanded social media scrutiny. This suspension is part of broader Trump-era policies affecting international students, which faced legal challenges. Delays could impact student enrollments and university budgets reliant on international tuition.
The possible added measures come as the Trump administration cracks down on immigration, including revoking student visas during deportations.
Satirical chyrons about politics are very common online.
The anger with Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is taking many creative forms of Elon Musk's X account. It's a different story on Trump's Truth Social.
In a post on X, the tech billionaire said: "@realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public." He gave no evidence for the claim. The White House described Musk's comments as "unfortunate".
A political historian weighs in on what's most troubling about the way the president and Tesla CEO's explosive breakup played out on social media.
Sen. Ted Cruz was with a fuming President Trump as Elon Musk viciously attacked his former ally online Thursday -- with the Texas Republican saying the spat made him feel like he was a kid in the middle of a divorce.
Musk deletes Epstein claim about Trump, but the feud and retweets continue
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said a "petty social media fight" between President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk should not jeopardize U.S. national security.
Godzilla vs King Kong. Ali vs Frazier. Yankees vs. Red Sox. Trump vs. Musk is bigger than all of them because — unlike the first match — this one is real. And unlike the other two, it has real-world consequences.
President Trump announced on Truth Social that he is terminating trade talks with Canada 'effective immediately' due to a dispute over Canada’s digital services tax, with a tariff announcement expected within seven days.
Trump’s frequent Truth Social posts, including tariff threats, have shaped public and international reactions to his administration’s policies.
President Trump criticized media coverage of Los Angeles protests, accusing outlets of bias in reporting on his immigration policies.
Trump’s tariff threats against Canada and Brazil have intensified, with the president signaling no extensions for trade deal deadlines.
Des investisseurs rusés ont réalisé un énorme jackpot.
The President’s social media skirmish with his former ally has half the country dumbfounded
Musk has quietly deleted some of his inflammatory tweets about Trump since last week. In a podcast episode released Wednesday, Trump said he was disappointed in Musk but had "no hard feelings."
Le patron de Tesla avait déjà supprimé, en fin de semaine dernière, un post sur X dans lequel il accusait le président américain d’être impliqué dans l’affaire Jeffrey Epstein.
How much attention did you pay to what's being going on in the world over the past seven days?
As you’ll likely recall, in late 2023, Elon Musk told advertisers to “go fuck yourself” and “don’t advertise” in response to a question about advertisers feeling uncomfortable placing their brands next to the kind of content that Musk was promoting via the Ex…
The online brotherhood built on dominance and certainty is fracturing fast over real-world war.
Certain apps may help you avoid the U.S. government using your past posts against you.
Late night television has reached a moment of convergence where the traditional shows are making more online efforts as the online shows are becoming more traditional.
As “GMA” celebrates Father’s Day, ABC News’ Will Ganss shares how dads on social media created their own community by sharing their wisdom to millions.
Billionaire Mark Cuban has been one of the largest proponents of social media platform Bluesky, which has grown its user base as an alternative to X. Cuban's...
The world’s richest man has reshaped the US government. Fault Lines investigates what that is costing the United States.
Without Elon Musk, what is the Department of Government Efficiency going to do?
Loomer Threatens to Snitch on Conservatives Criticizing Trump in Raging MAGA Civil War... (First column, 1st story, link)
Donald Trump slammed a Fox News poll Thursday on Truth Social, accusing the network’s pollsters of being “always wrong and negative.” “The Crooked FoxNews Polls got the Election WRONG, I won by much more than they said I would, and have been biased against m…
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov commented on Elon Musk's decision-making, Mark Zuckerberg's "fundamental values," and Sam Altman's technical chops.
The best available evidence suggests that the youth-vote shift in 2024 was more a one-off event than an ideological realignment.
Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
The State Department ended a pause on student visa processing but is requiring applicants to make their social media profiles public.
Trump's strange celebratory tone after announcing an Iran-Israel ceasefire lit up the internet, sparking memes, mockery, and a new all-purpose catchphrase.
This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. Birthdays are supposed to be fun. You eat cake, you open presents, maybe you have a party. They can also, however, become a source of pr…
Immigration authorities had to deny reports that a tourist was sent home for having an edited image of the vice president on his phone.
The movie will reportedly focus on the real-world violence caused by Facebook.
Zohran Mamdani is facing a flood of Islamophobic and anti-immigrant attacks from Trump, influencers, and even some Democrats.
After a brief silence, Musk is back in the political arena, taking aim at Trump’s priorities and mocking Iran’s Supreme leader.
I need to say something that will make many of you deeply uncomfortable: your refusal to call fascism “fascism” is not sophistication—it’s complicity. When Donald Trump posts explicit orders for “REMIGRATION” and “Mass Deportation Operations” targeting Americ…
Popular social network TikTok is still operating in the United States under a ban that has been paused by U.S. President Donald Trump, but it's possible that a deal for the sale of company is closer to being completed. Trump this week said that he identi…
Tesla Inc. CEO (NASDAQ:TSLA) and the world's richest man, Elon Musk, have found an unusual source of support in the form of Chinese social media users amid...
A FOIA request revealed the letters sent to Apple and big tech over the TikTok ban, and they claim the law wouldn't be enforced due to it interfering with the President's management of foreign affairs.Lack of TikTok ban enforcement due to Article II interpret…
The world's richest man blew up online MAGA with his new "America Party" and seemed to love every minute of the chaos.
The tech billionaire's "America Party" announcement, following his break with President Trump, has sparked anger among conservative loyalists on social media
Even with the TikTok divest-or-ban law officially in effect since January, the app has only shut down service in the US for one day. Now, The Information reports that an agreement for a sale satisfying the law’s requirements is close and would come with a new…
With a September deadline looming, a new report says TikTok is building a replacement app for its 170 million American users as part of a sale to an Oracle led group.
Social media giant TikTok will launch a new version of its popular app to Apple's and Google's app stores on September 5, as part of an agreement to sell its US business looms.US users of TikTok will see a new version of the app starting September 5, 2025.Use…
TikTok is purportedly building a new version of its platform for users in the United States ahead of a planned sale to a group of investors, per technology publication The Information, which cited anonymous sources for the report. As it stands, the Chinese in…
A climate change activist was arrested after spray-painting Apple’s 5th Avenue store as part of a protest against Big Tech’s “climate hypocrisy.” Protestors from the Extinction Rebellion environmental group staged a demonstration at the New York City storefro…
While Elon has pivoted to talking shit about Trump, Zuck is playing the long game.
After being called a “train wreck,” Musk accuses Trump of hiding Epstein ties and mocks the administration’s broken promises to release the files.
Is the ghost of Adolf Hitler busy?
In a surprise move, Yaccarino says she is stepping from the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.
TikTok drew on the Amazon playbook to launch its US e-commerce business, but now it's betting its future on staff with roots in China.
From a failed assassination attempt to a bitter public breakup, the billionaire bromance delivered a huge election win — followed by a political trainwreck
Donald J. Trump thought he was in his safe place on Truth Social when he unleashed a post trying to shut down talk about the Jeffrey Epstein files, but it swiftly backfired. First, Trump tried distracting the public with an attack on comedian Rosie O'Donnell …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hackers broke into the X account of Sesame Street character Elmo and posted antisemitic and racist messages, the makers of the...
Anyone investigated Grok? Just sayin'… Someone hacked Elmo's X account on Sunday, making it appear as if the lovable Sesame Street monster with the habit of referring to themselves in the third-person spewed a series of now-removed antisemitic, racist, and an…
A MAGA-bot could be on the way.
I’ve been warning people since the beginning of the year to expect the Trump regime to use the Twitter Files playbook on the US government and now we’re seeing exactly that play out. Trump is facing a bunch of pushback over the Jeffrey Epstein nonsense, so he…
We've got seven tips for finding that "lost" tweet.
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…
The president also said some wild things about Jeffrey Epstein.
Morgan takes to X and YouTube to kick Colbert while he's down
The president is yelling at the TV again.
The future of American politics might be decided by whether young voters get most of their news through TikTok. I don’t mean to single out the Chinese-owned vertical video app here. TikTok is a stand-in for a bigger phenomenon in modern American society: pas…
The future of American politics might be decided by whether young voters get most of their news through TikTok. I don’t mean to single out the Chinese-owned vertical video app here. TikTok is a stand-in for a bigger phenomenon in modern American society: pas…
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…
The president's media company is beta-testing Truth Search AI, but will the results lean toward conservative opinions?
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...
JD Vance and his wife really seem to loathe each other
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.
Sometimes it's good to remember that the internet is not a real place.
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…
By Opheli Garcia Lawler Published: August 19th, 2025
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…
The White House joined TikTok less than a month before it could face a ban, though Trump has already extended the deadline three times.
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...
President Trump attempted to ban TikTok in his first term, but five years later, the White House has created its own TikTok account.
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]
The new account comes as Trump has three times delayed implementing a 'sell or ban' law for the Chinese-owned app.
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 …
"It had me saying vile things," writes the senator from Minnesota.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler Published: August 21st, 2025
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…
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…
That’s why the network’s stars are fuming
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…
By Opheli Garcia Lawler Published: August 27th, 2025
“Who’s telling the truth?”: Fox plays proof Trump lied and then asks viewers to decide
Mark Zuckerberg made a well-publicized pivot to Donald Trump at the beginning of this year. It seems to be paying off.
Prominent Republicans are trying to fight "bias" online.
Our vivid daily links: Solar wave? Trump approval tanks, ChatGPT reports to police, US bars Palestian diplomats, Japan-China gas field row, India tariff hit, Israel plans Lebanon invasion, US drug chains halt Covid vaccines, rat population rise, more Lisa Coo…
Social media users, without evidence, pushed claims that President Donald Trump had died in recent days after not being seen publicly.
The California governor has started tweeting in the style of Donald Trump to ridicule the president and promote his new redistricting effort in California.
Reports of Donald Trump’s death have been greatly exaggerated and he’s determined to make sure that you know it. The president embarked on a Truth Social...
President Trump plays golf, posts AI-generated videos, shows he remains active amid social media rumors
In an incident of mass hysteria, everyone was on their comedy A-game
The president denied hearing about the baseless rumors circulating on social media that he died over Labor Day weekend
Trump's 2021 "censorship" suit against YouTube and Sundar Pichai has been in private settlement talks for months. The judge wants an update.
Amid speculation and misinformation about his health, President Donald Trump is well and playing golf.
President Donald Trump was on the warpath as soon as he woke up Friday, firing off strongly-worded Truth Social posts at a retiring congressman as well as...
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google's CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed me…
“We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison."
The Grammy Award-winning artist believes artists have no clear path to reach the masses. Lizzo Says Algorithms Have Left Music Industry “In Shambles,” Killed the “Song of the Summer” Chris Coplan
The president lashed out after being asked about an AI-generated meme.
The owners of the satirical Netflix series don't quite seem to have picked up on its messages The post Reality Eats Itself As Black Mirror Releases A Damn Memecoin appeared first on Kotaku.
TikTok's deadline to find a buyer for its US operations is next week.
There won't be any typos in the post announcing World War 3.
For fifty years or so, U.S. media academics warned anybody who would listen about the perils of letting your media companies consolidate in the hands of a bunch of rich assholes and giant, amoral corporations. Not only did America ignore those recommendations…
Kyle Chayka writes about how social-media platforms are navigating—and shaping—contemporary political divides.
The White House was a week late to the ‘Labubus are demonic’ joke
Minutes after news that right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk had been shot at a planned campus event at Utah Valley University, the wheels of social media engagement farming and clout chasing had already begun to grind to life. Kirk, despite being in his 30s, w…
Traditional news organizations were cautious in their midafternoon coverage of Charlie Kirk's assassination Wednesday not to depict the moment he was shot...
Video app Flip soared in popularity when it looked like it might be banned. Then it abruptly shut down.
The skill set required to succeed online may not always translate to effective law enforcement.
Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.
The rumor traces back to a speech Trump delivered during a 2019 joint press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
The US and China have reached a “framework” deal to divest TikTok from its Chinese parent company, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters during trade talks in Madrid on Monday. As noted by Reuters, Bessent confirmed that “the framework is for a swit…
President Trump first hinted at the deal in a post on Truth Social referring to an app that "young people in our Country very much wanted to save."
The app would have gone dark if China’s ByteDance had not divested by Wednesday.
It doesn't help that the FBI Director has long promoted various conspiracy theories online.
Beijing says the deal will include TikTok's crown jewels.
Are Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan really paying tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk? No, but these fake AI images might fool you
The social media platform had faced a ban in the US over national security concerns.
UPDATED: Nexstar’s decision to pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel’s show from its ABC stations “for the foreseeable future” comes amid furor over the host’s comments...
Donald Trump has successfully used xenophobia and fake concerns about propaganda and national security to get what he’s long wanted: TikTok (and its fat ad revenues) are poised to be sold off to his right wing billionaire buddies and, inevitably, slowly conve…
ABC announced Wednesday that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be off the air indefinitely following comments regarding speculation swirling around the suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk.
President Donald Trump celebrated ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air over Charlie Kirk comments and urges NBC to cancel its late-night hosts.
The American right wing has established total cultural dominance
There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what’s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” over comments that Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk. But that leads most people to assume tha…
Earlier on Wednesday, ABC pulled the show off the air following remarks the host made about Kirk's assassination
By Opheli Garcia Lawler Published: September 18th, 2025
By Tara Ariano Published: September 18th, 2025
It’s fascinating how quickly the tune changes when the shoe’s on the other foot. For years, we’ve been treated to endless screaming about how any effort to identify and counter foreign manipulation on social media was “censorship” and a violation of Americans…
Clare Malone writes about TikTok, the Chinese-owned social-media app that was banned by Congress because of national-security concerns, and how Donald Trump seems more interested in leveraging its future for his personal gain.
President Donald Trump signaled a deal to keep TikTok online in the U.S. was “approved” by China.
After announcing a Charlie Kirk tribute special to take over Jimmy Kimmel‘s time slot, Sinclair backed out of Friday’s planned programming. The country’s largest ABC affiliate group instead shared a YouTube link to the special after making an example of Jimmy…
More than 150,000 people have signed a MoveOn petition calling for Jimmy Kimmel’s reinstatement after ABC suspended him over Charlie Kirk comments.
TikTok US is set to sell to an investor consortium that will retrain its algorithm and keep Americans connected to users in other parts of the world.
Jimmy Kimmel's late night show was suspended after comments he made about Charlie Kirk's murder The post Jimmy Kimmel Live! Is Back Following Disney Boycott appeared first on Kotaku.
The actors behind Luke Skywalker, the Hulk, and Mr. Fantastic have all voiced support for the late-night host The post More Marvel And Star Wars Stars Slam Disney Over Jimmy Kimmel Controversy Amid Boycott Calls appeared first on Kotaku.
The ongoing TikTok-US saga seems close to reaching a conclusion, but we’re not there yet. As details get worked out for a potential Oracle-driven deal, a new Bloomberg report details the plans for TikTok’s algorithm in the US. more…
US residents may not have to migrate to a new version of the app after all, according to reports.
Stone claimed that, if he really was censored, we would have heard about it by now
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week to finalize a long-rumored TikTok acquisition. In view of the impending deal, more details surrounding how the U.S. will tweak TikTok have come to light, including changes to the app's algorithm…
Social media users are trolling DHS right back, asking when they'll catch people on the Epstein list.
Last year Mark Zuckerberg wrote the playbook for Big Tech leaders dealing with Republicans. Google paid attention.
A video captioned “Gotta Catch ’Em All” spliced raid footage with Pokémon imagery, sparking calls for Nintendo to step in.
Trump supporters cycled through increasingly desperate explanations for why the Jimmy Kimmel situation was totally legitimate. First came the absurd “low ratings” defense—because sure, networks routinely cancel shows minutes before taping due to sudden rating…
It'll also reinstate accounts banned for spreading misinformation.
A 2017 post is making its rounds on social media.
Trump unleashed a Truth Social rant ahead of tonight’s highly anticipated new episode of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
The flood of outrage at the Disney/FCC cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel ultimately forced the company to retreat and put Kimmel back on the air. Disney apparently didn’t much like the wave of folks cancelling their Disney+ streaming video subscriptions in respons…
Our great national censorship nightmare is over — but only for about three-quarters of the ABC stations in America. Jimmy Kimmel was back on the air Tuesday night after Disney, the parent company of ABC, reversed its decision last week to suspend his talk sho…
TikTok says it will introduce measures to "strengthen our platform" although it disputes some of the findings.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order approving a TikTok deal that will save it from a nationwide ban. (We haven’t actually seen the order yet, only watched Trump sign it — we’ll update once we’ve seen the full text.) The deal values TikTok’s U…
U.S. President Donald Trump today signed an executive order approving a deal that would see TikTok's U.S. operations largely sold off, reports CNBC. The deal would allow TikTok to comply with U.S. law requiring the social media service to be sold to a non-Chi…
The deal comes after Trump delayed a TikTok ban enacted last year.
President Trump on Thursday announced an agreement that will pave the way for social media giant TikTok to come under the control of a group of U.S. investors.
Details of the proposed deal haven't been released.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that outlines how the China-based Bytedance divestiture from TikTok in the United States will play out, laying the groundwork for the app to be majority-owned by U.S. persons and leaving Bytedance with…
Associated Press: Trump signs an EO declaring that a proposed deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the US will be a qualified sale that meets national security concerns — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declaring that a propose…
Trump allies could soon control TikTok’s algorithm. Will US ownership change what users see?
Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that he says will allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States in a way that meets national security concerns. Trump's order will enable an Ameri…
TikTok is in its US era now, but there's still a lot of questions surrounding the deal.
Shoplifters in the US could soon be chased down by drones The news: Flock Safety, whose drones were once reserved for police departments, is now offering them for private-sector security, the company has announced. Potential customers include businesses tryin…
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we wrote about how the TikTok “deal” was a grift from the start, while the blowback from China started to arrive, though TikTok and the DOJ were still fighting it out in court (and a judge issued a preliminary injunction agai…
If successful, the transaction will cement Silicon Valley's right-wing shift
Within hours of his assassination, memes appeared of Kirk draped in an American flag, being carried by Jesus.
An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named Jorge.
An executive order signed by the U.S. President, Donald Trump, approved a deal where TikTok Operations would be sold off, otherwise banning the platform in the United States. The deal suggests that the platform abide by the U.S law or face a ban, unless it is…
Rogan criticized TikTok Tylenol protests yet agreed it is safe in normal doses, despite political framing
Some conspiracy theorists have popularized the fictional technology, which they believe holds miracle cures.
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…
In a since-deleted Truth Social post, an AI version of Trump promised every American would soon have access to their very own medbed.
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.
Here he is as a Star Wars Jedi wielding a patriot-red lightsaber, rescuing our galaxy from the forces of evil. On the social media accounts of Donald Trump ...
Why did the president post a fake video of himself shilling a fake medical cure? Let's get into it.
Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for countless elections across 27 countries - is all gone. We had …
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
‘LOSER’ Letterman finally responds to the president’s social media tantrum
Remember all that concerned coverage about an elderly President’s cognitive decline? And all those (admittedly overhyped) warnings about deepfake videos tricking the gullible? Well, we now have a President who was apparently fooled by an AI deepfake video of …
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.
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…
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…
Trump was booted from the major platforms after trying to remain president in 2021.
Remember when Grok praised Adolf Hitler?
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…
Video platform settles lawsuit filed in response to Trump's suspension over the January 6, 2021, riot at US Capitol.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt gushed that it was “refreshing” that President Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself promoting a QAnon c...
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…
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.
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.
It used to be considered unusual for a U.S. president to do things like this.
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…
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, …
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 …
Trump and Vance have returned to TikTok after almost a year of posting no videos.
"There are people that are living in a MAGA universe online," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And that happens as well in progressive content and algorithms."
Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent
Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.
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
The plaintiffs said that social media companies have a created a "youth mental health crisis" and encouraged risky behaviors like "subway surfing."
"If you have a fetus in your placenta then something has gone quite wrong," one Bluesky user noted.
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.
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."
Another entry into the "algorithms are magic" school of imposing liability on tech companies.
It's against Facebook's terms of service to reveal the identity of secret police.
Donald Trump ain't happy with TIME magazine ... 'cause he says the cover photo they used of him to celebrate his Gaza peace deal is the worst one ever! Check out his late-night Truth Social rant ... he gives the image of him splashed across the…
The photoshopped image appears to have come from r/poopfromabutt on Reddit. Seriously.
As TikTok prepares to sell its US business, employees, creators, and researchers wonder about the future of its content algorithm.
You may recall a year or so ago, when Mark Zuckerberg whined to Jim Jordan about how the Biden administration “repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain… content.” Or maybe you remember when he went on Joe Rogan and whined some more about Bi…
The State Department says the US has 'no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans'.
Nota Baloyi is one of several people lost his visa to visit the U.S. because he spoke ill of Charlie Kirk on social media. The post He Tweeted Charlie Kirk “Won’t Be Remembered as a Hero.” The State Dept. Revoked His Visa appeared first on The Intercept.
This is a bad time to give Trump de facto control of one of the most popular social media apps in history—and that’s exactly what Biden did.
David Ingram / NBC News: Three labor unions filed a lawsuit in NY federal court to block the Trump administration from searching visa holders' social media for posts it deems hostile — The lawsuit filed Thursday is the latest of several challenges to the Tr…
The platform's immune system kicked in when a large number of accounts associated with Donald Trump sought attention there.
This week, MrWilson takes both top spots on the insightful side (and the top spot on the funny side). In first place for insightful, it’s a comment about Elon Musk’s disastrous impact on the government: The worst part about it isn’t just that the Fox News spo…
Social media users had called for a boycott.
No, you’re not having a stroke, that was a real thing that happened The post Kenny Loggins Disavows AI-Generated Video Of Trump Dumping Poop On Protesters To ‘Danger Zone’ appeared first on Kotaku.
President Donald Trump flailed Monday while walking back his support for Ukraine.During a press conference, Trump was asked about a comment he made last month suggesting that Ukraine could “win” the war against Russia and claim all of the territory seized by …
Our vice president is spending his days beefing with a 23-year-old liberal influencer over an AI video our president posted of himself dropping a massive load of shit on protesters from a fighter jet. The video, posted on Saturday, depicts Trump piloting a fi…
On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.
Pro-Trump judges made excuses for Trump's bizarre posts. "The district court erred by placing too much weight on statements the President made on social media."
The "Danger Zone" singer is not amused.
Elon Musk has hammered acting NASA chief Sean Duffy repeatedly on social media over the past few days, calling him "Sean Dummy" and claiming he's "trying to kill NASA." Here's what may be going on.
Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance better than he do…
If Elon Musk probably has a superpower, it isn’t his engineering or business savvy. It’s probably his rank opportunism. The latest case in point: this week saw a massive outage for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that managed to take many of your favorite websites …
Rogan is not a bright man.
Our strategic daily links: Blooming flower, strange shape, ocean plastic, EU rearmament, Gaza horrors, Chinese supercarrier, Ukraine burning, vanishing privacy, Trumpishness, Musk world, hapless Democrats, immigration troubles, Mr. market, AI, and wretched ex…
After using the original Pokémon theme song in a montage of ICE raids, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using another popular video game franchise to promote itself on social media: Halo. This morning, the DHS posted an image featuring Halo charac…
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to seal a TikTok deal on Thursday, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
GameStop is getting cozy with the president on social media The post Trump Takes Break From Destroying White House To Post AI-Generated Halo Meme appeared first on Kotaku.
A TikTok user was arrested earlier this month for threatening Attorney General Pam Bondi.
A Silicon Valley firm has contracted with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build out a social media surveillance dragnet. Critics say that the AI-driven software will target immigrants for political speech.
As crypto-based prediction services attract a flood of attention and capital, the US president’s social media platform has announced plans to muscle in.
The revisionist history just gets more stupid with each passing day The post White House Claims Trump Is ‘Hugely Popular’ With Gamers Despite Sky-High Console Prices appeared first on Kotaku.
The USA's Immigration Customs Enforcement service, aka ICE, have started using imagery of Microsoft's sci-fi shooter Halo for recruitment posts on social media, even as Gamestop and the US administration indulge in some bantz characterising Donald Trump as Ma…
At a Senate hearing Wednesday on government censorship of tech platforms, a Meta executive expressed regret to Republican lawmakers for failing to speak out more against the Biden administration's requests that it remove health and election misinformation, in…
"Truth Predict” will enable Truth Social users to bet on a wide range of future events.
Trump posts just 5% of the tweets under his name, according to a new report.
TikTok’s U.S. spin-off could reshape its algorithm and the way culture is curated online.
The man who invented the web is aware of the many issues it faces, from problematic social media use to the rise of unfettered AI. He also has a plan to remedy the situation
Authorities in Tennessee have dropped a felony charge against a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination...
Lawyers for Alphabet, Youtube's parent company, recently alleged that the Biden administration tried to “influence” the company. Interviews with employees don't appear to support their claim.
This timeline is cooked.
In a recent episode of her TV series, the reality star said she believed the moon landing was fake.
The Bluesky Discover feed is an avalanche of meh posts. It could be a powerful and addictive feature instead.
The r/Canada subreddit lit up with over 1,200 comments after Carney said he apologized to Trump over the ad, which had derailed trade talks.
'The Woman in the Hat' took direct shots at the largest 'South Park' fan community
Trump Media & Technology Group (NASDAQ:DJT) says it will soon roll out a prediction market feature for Truth Social in partnership with cryptocurrency...
The station that endlessly covers all of Trump's insane rallies across the country from end to end cut away after just a minute of President Obama campaigning in Virginia for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger. The Fox Report host Jon Scott…
President "Poo-Poo" Trump attacked late-night host Seth Meyers on Saturday, calling him "the least talented person to 'perform' live in the history of television" and declaring his show "100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!" The outburst came after M…
The legal fight over whether the president can send troops into Portland, Oregon, depends on whether judges believe their own eyes or their smartphones. Even before inception, the lawsuit has been dogged by a war on reality fueled by social media influencers,…
Zohran Mamdani owes his win as New York City mayor substantially to his internet presence. Mamdani - as numerous writers have outlined - is good on social video. He picked a message, stuck to it, and adapted that platform to snappy soundbites across multiple …
An apparently confused Nicki Minaj begged a Trump parody account for "honorary citizenship" on Tuesday night, saying, "Dear Papi Trumpo, Please, grant me honorary citizenship." Minaj is a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago. Minaj's support stems from Trump desig…
X is just a cesspool of disinformation at this point.
Meta's stand-alone AI app has a video feed called Vibes. It's being taken over by Donald Trump memes and political stuff. I'm calling it "boomerslop."
And the internet is predictably enraged.
The president ate the onion.
The claim originated on a satirical news site called the “Dunning-Kruger Times.”
Over the weekend, the President of the United States fell for obvious satire from a website literally called “The Dunning Kruger Times.” Donald Trump—a man with access to the best, most accurate information on basically any subject—posted to Truth Social a sc…
MSNBC will rebrand as MS Now on Saturday, a reflection of the cable news network’s separation from Comcast and sister network NBC News. As the new Versant network sets out on its own, it has been building up its own newsroom, with two major hires with a focus…
Threads is making a concerted effort to woo podcasters. A new suite of podcaster-friendly features came out this week.
Three things are certain in life, death, taxes, and a Kennedy in politics.
You might recall that right wing propaganda broadcaster Sinclair Broadcasting recently tripped over its own ass after working with the Trump administration to try and censor Jimmy Kimmel for criticizing the President. The flood of outrage at the Disney/FCC/AB…
Hank Green on outrage, creativity, and what, exactly, went wrong with the internet.
This week, all our winning comments came in response to our post about Donald Trump falling for satire from a website called The Dunning-Kruger Times. In first place on the insightful side, it’s That One Guy with a comment about how this is hardly surprising:…
By Matt Solomon Published: November 17th, 2025
It has been frustrating, to say the least, to watch many of the big Silicon Valley tech firms bow down to Trump and do his bidding, especially when it directly contradicts things they’ve said and done in the past. I’ve tried to explain to tech company execs w…
Meta promoted its artificial intelligence’s new “free AI creator tools” on Instagram with a piece of content that appears to show an AI-generated video of President Donald Trump kneeling before a demon.A screenshot of the AI-generated video, showcased i…
Donald Trump and his earlobe nibbler (FCC boss Brendan Carr) are threatening to try and censor some more comedians after their efforts to cancel Jimmy Kimmel went so well (read: not well at all). Over at the right wing white propaganda website formerly known …
Democratic Senator Mark Kelly and Republican Senator John Curtis want to gut Section 230 to combat “political radicalization”—in honor of Charlie Kirk, whose entire career was built on political radicalization. Kirk styled himself as a “free speech warrior” b…
The latest attack on Section 230 is likely to face the same fate as many previous efforts A pair of bipartisan senators wants to hold social media giants accountable for pushing content that radicalizes Americans.…
"Will you ban Joe Rogan from talking about politics then?" one commenter asked
By Keegan Kelly Published: November 19th, 2025
After four years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, and a year after the app was to be banned from app stores via an act of Congress, TikTok remains widely available. The Trump administration insists they …
This is the story of a Tennessee man who was jailed for more than a month for the crime of posting one Donald Trump quote on Facebook.
Users are able to spot the deceit thanks to a new feature rolled out over the weekend
Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, has rolled out a feature where going to the ‘Joined’ tab on one's profile, displays the country of origin for that account.
Elon Musk’s latest feature on X has had some shocking and unintended consequences.Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an i…
The AI-generated video recirculated after the November 2025 release of thousands of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Ankit Khanal gets his news from News Daddy. More than 20 times a day, Khanal, a sophomore at George Mason University, opens TikTok to have the biggest stories of the day delivered to him by a bleach-blonde 26-year-old named Dylan Page, one of the leading face…
Elon Musk's big change to X has caused an apocalypse for MAGA influencers, but it's not all good news.
Dozens of pro-Trump accounts are being accused of misleading followers after the social media site began showing user locations.
"This is total armageddon for the online right."
For the last few years, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and their allies have spent considerable energy attacking both academic researchers studying disinformation and the trust & safety teams at social media platforms working to identify and remove coord…
The new 'transparency feature' on Elon Musk's social media platform has raised concern among users.
As Google's Nano Banana Pro makes AI photos more realistic than ever, figures like RFK Jr. and Alex Jones tweeted AI-generated Thanksgiving portraits.
President Donald Trump vowed on Thanksgiving to "permanently pause migration" from poorer nations in a blistering late-night, anti-immigrant screed posted to social media.
Many of the state bans are tied up in litigation, and each tackles issues of social media addiction and social development in different ways.
Donald Trump isn’t just content this week with personally demeaning female journalists, POTUS has now decided to make his war on the so-called “enemy of the ...
Graber spent her early years studying how technology interacts with society, and now leads Bluesky that is looking to be "billionaire-proof."
You never know where miscellaneous corners of the internet, like Craigslist, will take you. Because there’s nothing sacred when humans are putting the ads out there. You may as well sell your soul to the devil.
H-1B applicants and their dependents will face expanded online checks as the US tightens scrutiny of skilled-worker visas, a spokesperson said.
The phrase garnered national attention back in June.
BRUSSELS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching EU...
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Donald Trump got angry about a trend on Twitter and went full force calling for a repeal of Section 230, renewing the effort to slip this into the must-pass military spending bill. Trump promised he was willing to defund the …
Social media users are skewering the U.S. Treasury Department for bragging about something eminently non-bragworthy.On Friday, the Treasury Department’s official X account shared a chart reflecting that, in 2025, “U.S. Treasuries are having their best year si…
fined Elon Musk‘s social media company X €120 million ($140 million) on Friday for breaching the bloc’s online content rules, marking the first sanction under its Digital Services Act (DSA), which was adopted in 2022. Musk Says Fine Applied Personally The Tes…
YouTube offered multiple explanations for deleting the account of Robert Inlakesh, who covered Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The post A Journalist Reported From Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account Claiming He’s an Iranian Agent appeared first on Th…
Several European countries are already working on their own versions.
By Matt Solomon Published: December 08th, 2025
As he called the House Judiciary Committee into session on a cold and snowy February day in Washington, DC, Chairman Jim Jordan was ready to take a victory lap. American free speech had been critically threatened, and now it was saved - in large part thanks t…
Children younger than 16 years old will be banned from using social media in Australia starting Wednesday.
The Trump administration has proposed a change to the ESTA that would require tourists to submit years' worth of sensitive data, including social media history.
Tourists from dozens of countries including the UK could be asked to provide a five-year social media history as a condition of entry to the United States, under a new proposal unveiled by American officials. From a report: The new condition would affect peop…
A key TikTok e-commerce product leader stepped away in a restructuring that impacted the company's global product and data science teams.
The post made even Trump's most ardent supporters recoil, with many considering it distasteful.
Wikipedia will be 25 years old in January. During that time, the encyclopedia has gone from a punchline about the unreliability of online information to the factual foundation of the web. The project's status as a trusted source of facts has made it a target …
TikTok's owner ByteDance has signed a deal creating a U.S.-focused joint venture majority-owned by American and global investors, allowing the app to avoid a U.S. ban while ByteDance retains a minority stake. The BBC reports: Half of the joint venture will be…
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticisms about TikTok significantly worse. Quite an accomplishment. The Ch…
Not this shit again. A bipartisan group of the most anti-internet Senators around have released their latest version of a plan to “sunset Section 230.” We went over this last year when they floated the same idea: they have no actual plan for how to make sure …
TikTok has finalized a deal with new US owners including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake. However, these investors will not have significant control over key...
Users need to revolt against what will very likely be an even more widespread effort to censor voices critical of Israel. The post Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Will Now Control What TikTok Users See appeared first on The Intercept.
Fourteen years ago, right after the FCC issued its order on net neutrality, Marsha Blackburn flipped out and released a video talking (misleadingly!) about how wonderful Facebook and Twitter were and how they would be destroyed if the big evil government inte…
Vimeo said mistakes were made in its “rushed” response to child protection laws, but concerns about the Staff Picks curation team’s independence linger.
What’s Grandpa Trump’s version of telling stories by the fire on Christmas? It seems to be unleashing a flurry of more than 100 posts on Truth Social lying, complaining, and congratulating himself. In the early hours of Thursday, Trump published a torrent of …
What many don’t know is that there are two sides to Donald Trump: the public persona known for scathing Truth Social posts and humiliating contentious reporters and the incredibly gracious family man behind the bombast.Before Glenn Beck knew the difference, h…
The president spent Christmas Day on a crazed posting spree, Truth Social-ing more than 100 times.
"She knows what she’s doing!”
“Perhaps it's not review bombing and is, in fact, the fans actual feelings about the episode?”
President Donald Trump has repeatedly amplified a fake Karoline Leavitt X account that once asked followers to rate the White House press secretary’s butt...
For years we had to listen to a bipartisan roster of lawmakers insist that TikTok was one of the greatest national security threats to ever face the nation. In reality, they were mostly just interested in protecting Facebook from a short-form video company it…
To succeed in office he will need to keep his supporters engaged with day-to-day governing, experts say.
U.S. President Donald Trump posted "Windmills are killing all of our beautiful Bald Eagles!" on social media with an image of a bird that's not an eagle and not in America.
Trump and Musk's debacle was a failure on every level for the American people, however it was a huge success for the ones that wanted to steal all our data and dismantle government. We covered the damage Musk and his DOGE bros did quite extensively here, whet…
If Meta can use a feature for targeting ads, Meta will use a feature for targeting ads.
President Trump warned Iran not to kill protesters. A top Iranian official fired back to stay out of it, alleging the U.S. and Israel were stoking the economic protests sweeping parts of Iran.
If you remain unconvinced up to this point and still want to stay on the MechaHitler site that publishes CSAM and removes women and girls' clothing for an audience of millions without their consent, I ask, what will it take for you to quit a site that only ab…
TikTok's ownership drama has echoes of X (formerly Twitter), but ad performance has kept marketers for fleeing—for now.
From seemingly AI-generated videos to the recirculation of old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the US invasion of Venezuela.
The social media site that many sought as an alternative to X fosters groupthink and pointless activism.
Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple's and Google's app stores. The fact that it hasn't happened yet tells me something …
Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.
Analysts say Musk's move may give a small boost to some protesters, but matters little during internet blackouts.
"Trump’s posting about being 'Acting President of Venezuela' when he’s not even acting like a president at home."
The Trump administration has spent months shrieking about EU “censorship” while actively censoring people themselves. While I’ve long been a critic of parts of the DSA, Americans—particularly MAGA officials—keep crying wolf over the DSA’s non-censorial aspect…
From a journalist's tweet about Venezuela to the identity of the ICE agent who shot Renee Good, the debate over doxxing seems to be everywhere.
US warns UK officials could face travel bans if X is blocked amid Grok AI deepfake row, raising tensions over tech regulation and free speech.
As President Trump approaches one year back in office, the policies his administration pursues — and how those policies are communicated — have been increasingly shaped by social media.
In 2026, TikTok and Instagram are looking back to 2016, and remembering the good times—here’s why social media users are so nostalgic for the old days.
From Minnesota to Greenland, Trump knows that he's losing the propaganda war.
"Not to state the obvious, but saying you will attack an ally because you didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize, is exactly why you shouldn't win a Nobel Peace Prize."View Entire Post ›
TikTok finally closed a deal meant to bring it into compliance with the law that should have banned it a year ago, and the lawmakers who passed that law still don't seem to know what's going on. The company announced Tuesday that its US service is now part of…
An entity has been created and a deadline has been avoided, as the TikTok deal drags on.
TikTok, U.S. Government reached a deal to keep the app's services online for users, as both agreed on a Joint Venture LLC.
TikTok has announced that it has finalized a deal to establish a majority American-owned joint venture, allowing the app to continue operating in the United States indefinitely. First agreed in December, the deal creates "TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC," …
TikTok said Thursday it completed the deal to spin off its U.S. operations -- concluding a yearslong battle over access to the wildly popular video app for U.S. users.
When officials record themselves, they become content creators, too.
TikTok’s future in the US has reached a major milestone today, as the new US-owned spinoff for American users has officially launched. Here’s what that means for TikTok users in the US today, and moving forward. more…
TikTok has secured its future by agreeing to split the US app from the global business. But the deal will spark changes to how the app's algorithm works.
TikTok USDS Joint Venture now runs TikTok in the United States, as the popular video sharing app avoids being banned following threats from the US government.
TikTok has completed a deal to create a new U.S.-based joint venture, resolving years of uncertainty over whether the app would be banned in the United States. [Read More]
TikTok on Friday officially announced that it formed a joint venture that will allow the hugely popular video-sharing application to continue operating in the U.S. The new venture, named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, has been established in compliance with t…
The app was due to be banned in the US a year ago if its Chinese owner hadn't sold its business in America.
ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos spoke with Bloomberg technology reporter Alexandra Levine about what the finalized TikTok deal means to its users and their security concerns.
Trump posted screenshots of messages from Macron and NATO's chief, highlighting how private diplomacy — and work chats — can quickly become public.
TikTok says a power outage is causing ongoing issues and outages that started in the US early Sunday morning. In an email to The Verge, TikTok USDS spokesperson Jamie Favazza pointed to a statement posted to the joint venture's newly-created X account, which …
TikTok has suffered from extensive problems on its first weekend after completing the sale of its US arm, though some issues appear to have spread globally. TikTok has yet to confirm any issues a day after troubles began, making it difficult to surmise the ex…
For many years, credit card companies and other payment methods were aggressive about policing child sexual abuse material. Then, Elon Musk's Grok started undressing children on X. The Center for Countering Digital Hate found 101 sexualized images of children…
Thousands of American TikTok users have reported having issues with the app this past weekend.
I’ve completely stopped using Twitter (now called X) and I wanted to post something explaining why. I stopped posting or reading the feeds quite a while ago, but despite most people I know agreeing it’s a terrible place, friends persist in sharing X posts an…
While social media rumors have suggested the errors are examples of censorship, more than a day after the issues began, TikTok USDS says the problems are the result of a power outage at a data center that it is working to resolve. Rumors of censorship targeti…
Border czar Tom Homan heads to Minnesota to replace Greg Bovino amid the immigration crackdown backlash. And a trial starts today to decide whether social media firms knowingly harm young users.
After Trump-connected investors took a controlling stake in the U.S. version of the app, users have claimed that it's suppressing political topics
The scrutiny follows a rocky first week under new U.S. ownership./
Major investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX signed agreements to form the new joint venture
You might recall how Republicans (with help from Democrats) suffered a three year embolism over the national security, privacy, and propaganda problems inherent with TikTok — only to turn around and let Trump sell the platform to his technofascist billionaire…
TikTok isn’t in great shape lately, and it looks like some users have had enough.
It's like you can't even trust the Facebook page "Man Stuff" for investigative journalism anymore.
Commentary: With new US ownership, the magic of TikTok's algorithm appears to have run out. And so has my interest.
UpScrolled is a social media app that launched in 2025. It's now the No. 2 app on Apple's App Store as TikTok deals with glitches.
If you opened TikTok recently, you probably saw some weird stuff happening. Maybe you couldn’t post a new video. Maybe the app asked for your precise location. Maybe you weren’t seeing as much stuff about ICE or the Trump administration’s latest assault on th…
Emmy-winning Owda points to changes in TikTok's US ownership, remarks from Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to explain ban.
Disgruntled TikTok users are flocking to the platform which is promising a ‘transparent tech' experience.
Maybe the Reddit-trained bots on Moltbook will prove me wrong, and unearth something in the Epstein files. But for now, the evidence for a conspiracy is thin.
We called bullshit when Republicans tried to order websites to carry content. We’re calling bullshit now when Democrats are trying to do the same. We spent years explaining to politicians across both parties why the government can’t dictate how private platfo…
Posts have been going viral on social media accusing TikTok's new owners of suppressing content, but eight academics examined the issue and found no evidence to support the claims.
The movie was yanked from the Oregon theater after Amazon made an issue over their promotional messages, seemingly taking a sarcastic dig at ‘Melania.’
European regulators issued a preliminary finding that the app’s design likely violates the bloc’s laws.
The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.
One of the many seedy guiding principles Donald Trump acquired from his mentor Roy Cohn was “admit nothing, deny everything,” and today that approach was evident as the former Apprentice host tried to wiggle out of a vile AI generated video posted on his Trut…
Thousands of creators are deleting TikTok and flocking elsewhere just days after a change in ownership and mounting claims of widespread censorship and shadowbanning, or reduced reach, on the app.
At least 15 governments on the continent are planning social media bans inspired by Australia.
With a stark disparity between Melania‘s critic and audience scores, Rotten Tomatoes is denying any bot interference. Despite speculation of rigged box office number, the movie review hub recently declared that its “Popcornmeter” score for the documentary abo…
President Donald Trump defended his highly controversial posting of a video on social media that included a clip of former President Barack Obama and First...
You may have heard last week that actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt went to Washington DC and gave a short speech at an event put on by Senator Dick Durbin calling for the sunsetting of Section 230. It’s a short speech, and it gets almost everything wrong about Sect…
As Donald Trump continues to shrug responsibility for an AI-generated video posted to his Truth Social account of the Obamas depicted as apes, Barack Obama has responded. The 44th president chalked up the clip, as well as recent rhetoric around Renée Good and…
AI-generated or otherwise altered images of the U.S. president swirled online as more files regarding late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein emerged.
“Are they deliberately mocking us by picking such a bad ‘lookalike?’” one commenter asked.
The level of coordination among inauthentic online agents is unprecedented.
Former President Barack Obama called the kind of rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump and his administration “a clown show” in a podcast interview that aired Saturday
In a move that already has Elon Musk calling people "traitors," the U.K., Spain and Greece are moving ahead on teen social media bans.
"The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert said CBS blocked an interview over FCC concerns. It highlights tension between broadcasters and their talent.
“White House or horror movie audition?” one asked after seeing Susan Dell’s demeanor as she stood few feet away from US President Donald Trump.
The algorithm also doesn't like posts by traditional news media, the researchers found.
Companies are being subpoenaed for personal info
Two recent bodies of research indicate that X really is pulling its users to the right, and elites may not be as immune to this kind of algorithmic radicalization as they think.
Mother Jones reports that Meta's AI chatbot is also banned from telling minors to use condoms for safe sex.
WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.
A 30-second clip of a CBS Austin reporter has become one of the most-shared media moments of the weekend — and almost none of the ... Read More
In the days that followed the US and Israel's joint military strike on Iran on Saturday, floods of images and videos that supposedly document the war have appeared online. Some are old or depict unrelated conflicts, are made or manipulated with AI, and in som…
It's unclear if other types of non-AI video will also be penalized.
After the 2024 election, influencers were seen as an asset. A contentious race between Democrats James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett showed that they can also be a liability.
U.S. TikTok users were experiencing service disruptions Tuesday related to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure issue. Something similar happened almost exactly a month ago.
There's a mystery marketer playing 4D chess on social media, and they made another unexpected move this week.
The case, filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C., accuses the Trump administration of ignoring legislation designed to stop the spread of Chinese propaganda — and instead helping to broker a partial sale to businessmen close to Trump.
X's Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict, and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.
One popular video also features Elon Musk and Bill Gates.
You might recall that during the great mass TikTok hyperventilation of 2021-2025, there was no limit of face fanning by Republicans like Brendan Carr about overseas involvement in social media. Carr was so particular on this subject, he scuttled an FCC progra…
From the @nycferry Instagram. Why are @NYGov, @NYCFerry and more city and state agencies are posting deranged memes alongside public information? [ more › ]
Clap! Why don’t you clap?
When social media declared Netanyahu dead, crypto prediction markets priced it at 5%. The money was right — and Washington wants to shut it down.
"Trump's tweets always age well."View Entire Post ›
With every Donald Trump post able to immediately move the market, who are these people to seem to know exactly what he will say in advance?
Is it just a troll or something more sinister?
A look into the way Meta handles moderation suggests Community Notes aren't an effective substitute for the third-party fact-checking program it disbanded last year.
President Donald Trump’s dubious “cognitive test” claims have been given a brutal reality check. Users on X have slapped community notes on viral clips of...
Government of trolls.
The week's biggest tech news stories from Sonos, DJI, iOS, and more for March 28, 2026.
President Trump's view of the war is reportedly informed by a daily diet of short-form bombing videos—and by rosy Fox News coverage. No wonder he thinks the war is won. Meanwhile, his Defense Secretary seems to view violence as its own end.
The video spread at a velocity only social media can generate. Missiles rained down on the USS Abraham Lincoln, blasting fighter jets into the sea, the vessel breaking apart in a dramatic fireball — shared millions of times before anyone thought to ask whethe…
On January 10th, 2025, Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Joe Rogan and put on quite a performance. He talked about how the Biden administration had pressured Meta to take down content. He detailed how the Biden administration had apparently pressured Meta to take…
Explosive News’ A.I.-generated videos have been shared by Iranian-government accounts and co-opted by No Kings protesters. A spokesperson for the group says, “Let’s face it—if truth isn’t flashy, it’s kinda lonely.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has made a career out of schooling the press -- and now thousands Koreans are learning English by studying her daily briefings.
The new frontier of war has been won by Iran - TikTok videos. This video, apparently not their first, is an ABSOLUTE BANGER of a song. I hate everything they stand for, but this song NAILS Trump and Hegseth in all the ways: racist tattoos, drunk, sexual assau…
Remember when the Biden administration set up something called the “Disinformation Governance Board” and the entire MAGA universe lost its collective mind? It was the “Ministry of Truth.” It was “government speech police.” It was the single most Orwellian thi…
Since the beginning of the Iran war, the group Explosive Media has released over a dozen viral videos mocking Trump and the US.
The Iran war sparked an epic social-media trolling contest.
Reddit itself has been subpoenaed by a secret Washington grand jury, with the government wanting to know the identity of a specific user.
An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent. The post A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury. appeared…
As younger voices break from Fox News, the right’s media ecosystem turns on itself
The U.S. president uses his social media platform to share his opinions and policy proposals, as well as to spread false information.
Trump later said the image depicted him as a doctor.
An AI-generated image that President Donald Trump posted Monday on his social media platform that depicted him as a Jesus-like figure is drawing criticism and interest online.
Hours after posting a lengthy message critiquing the pontiff, the US president shared a Jesus-like image of himself that he has since deleted.
Trump and Pope Leo's disagreement over the war in Iran was amplified after Trump attacked the pope on social media and posted a now-deleted AI-generated image that depicted him as a Jesus-like figure.
US President Donald Trump has deleted an AI-generated image of himself depicted as a Jesus-like figure.
Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.” The post Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” appeared first on The Intercept.
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech power plays in Washington and beyond. (And when I say beyond, I mean the great beyond, like Heaven, maybe.) If you've found your way to this newsletter from the wild, annual sub…
The momentum is building for a social media ban for minors in one of the largest economies in the world.
An image authentically shows U.S. President Donald Trump smiling and wearing a white tank top with young girls kneeling before him.
David Shuster is back with his weekly countdown of the internet’s sharpest comedic satire — and this week, the material pretty much wrote itself as Trump got mocked mercilessly by Lego Iran after barfing up his usual potpourri of insanity, and saw his bestie …
Earlier this month, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment. Just ask our enemies!!!” — notably including the stock ticker, because why not just make the market ma…
Donald Trump has released various social media comments throughout the day, preaching about winning the war.
The host and conspiracy theorist posted angry, shirtless clips in response to the news.
This Saturday is the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (WHCA). And there’s been ample criticism of journalists that plan to have giggles and cocktails with overt fascists, given this helps normalize of one of the most racist, censorial, and corru…
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The tools and techniques behind Iran’s push in the battle of narratives.
No, Cole Tomas Allen never worked as security for your favorite sports team.
He posted online 11 times in under an hour, combining altered visuals, repeated imagery and political commentary
Social media users have repeatedly shared fake Truth Social posts attributed to the president.
As some members of MAGA media begin pushing back against Trump, there may be a limit to his campaign of retribution
‘Bot’ accounts were directed mostly towards content aligned with the Republican Party.
Audit experiments on TikTok show asymmetric partisan exposure that is not explained by observable engagement metrics, with Republican-leaning accounts receiving more aligned content and Democratic-leaning accounts more cross-partisan recommendations.
The probe into Musk and X has officially become a criminal investigation.
The bulk of the president's social media posts don't make news. But taken together they show what's on his mind as he leads the nation through war and domestic turmoil.
The administration is nearing a $400 million TikTok settlement over alleged children's privacy violations, which would fund D.C. "beautification" projects, sources say.
Typically, money brought in from a settlement like this is spent on the victims or issues related to the harm caused.
Study: “A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right‑wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly.” People using the “For You” feed were more likely to favor GOP policies, less likely to want Trump
Donald Trump melted down over reports contradicting his narrative about the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in a wild Truth Social posting spree.
The Trump administration is fighting for the right to keep some social media moderation advocates out of the US. On Wednesday, US District Court Judge James Boasberg heard arguments in a lawsuit between the nonprofit Coalition for Independent Technology Resea…
X is fighting for its users' right to anonymity against the far-right influencers and accused human traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are seeking to unmask their online critics. The Tate brothers filed suit against the owners of more than a dozen socia…
The White House took time out from the Iran war celebrate the arrival of Drake’s 'Iceman' with a controversy-seeking social media post.
A federal law requiring online platforms to remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours has officially come into effect. [Read More]
Late Show finale surged in viewership, Trump attacks with AI clip showing him throwing Colbert into dumpster
While the U.S. president has a long history of posting provocative statements on social media, these examples are not real.
AI-generated ads and deepfakes are being deployed in congressional races — and are confusing voters
The internet roasted the news reporter’s response, claiming she has the “survival skills of a potato” and the “situational awareness of a house plant.”
The BBC's Ros Atkins and BBC Verify sifted through thousands of the president's posts.
As we’ve previously noted, Brendan Carr recently launched a series of phony inquiries into ABC because Jimmy Kimmel made fun of the president’s wife. Carr can’t just come out and say that, so he’s launched a series of fake (and legally laughable) “investigati…
CBS filed copyright notices against Colbert's viral "Only in Monroe" comeback. It backfired.
An eerie 15-second clip sets nationalist imagery to the Scottish duo’s new song “Deep Time”
Sen. Ed Markey is pressing TikTok’s new U.S. joint venture and Oracle to explain how they are protecting user data and limiting ByteDance’s influence.
Meta is also expanding Teen Accounts globally after momentum for social media bans abroad grows.
A new documentary chronicles how the app became a stand-in for American anxieties about social media, China, and political power.
"Do they not realize there's video of this stuff?"View Entire Post ›
Polymarket paid influencers, including Nick Shirley, to boost the prediction market's profile without disclosing the payments to followers.
The ecosystem is incredibly unhealthy, especially on Twitter. But if it dies, good riddance.
President Trump shared an AI-generated video on Truth Social on Saturday depicting characters from across the world chanting "they love Donald Trump."
President Donald Trump posted a kooky video called "Thank You President Trump" that features a parade of the president on different adventures with a repetitive soundtrack that features the word "Trump" approximately 40 times.
Under a new bipartisan bill, Americans could sue for damages if a government official illegally tries to coerce a social media, AI, or broadcasting company to remove their post - regardless of whether the platform actually does it. Senate Commerce Committee C…
The internet has a special talent for turning a single strange photo into a full-blown mystery, and that is exactly what happened when an image supposedly showing Donald Trump meeting a group of unusual-looking figures began circulating online.
The ban will apply to platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. The move makes the U.K. part of a growing global movement to tighten online safety for children.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has today announced that under-16s in the U.K. are to be banned from social media. [Read More]
Hey, idiot, the helicopter goes in the left top corner
While workers, who were employees in government or public institutions, feel vindicated by how their lawsuits concluded, they are still grappling with the aftermath.
Mark Zuckerberg is launching his next major project: a betting platform modeled after Polymarket. The prospects for success are good, alarming experts.
We’ve been pointing out for years that the supposedly “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk is one of the most aggressive abusers of state power to create chilling effects against his critics. So it should come as little surprise to anyone paying attention, that…
Earlier this week we noted how ABC has been asking its audience to give the Trump FCC an earful about its clumsy efforts to censor journalists, comedians, and daytime talk show hosts: The ad only hints at the fact that FCC boss Brendan Carr has launched a fak…
On the same day as Bungie announces mass lay-offs, the White House drops its latest dank dunk
The most popular ads on social media look like anything but.
The current president chatted with a life-sized AI version of the 26th US president at the new Theodore Roosevelt presidential library.
In June 2026, comedian Larry the Cable Guy released a statement asking supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump to "unfollow me and do it now."
Trump-appointed Louisiana federal judge Terry Doughty has spent years bending over backwards trying to help some MAGA faithful manufacture nonsense claims about “censorship” for some grifters getting moderated on social media. As you’ll recall, he issued a bi…
Meta Platforms said in a court filing on Monday that four states were seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over accusations that the company designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict young users