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The preschool teacher-turned-content creator is an advocate for all families. Conservatives are mad about it.
What is the Kids’ Online Safety Act, and why should you care about it?
Nobody wins when creators fight over who is helping a poor family the most.
A YouTuber’s deep dive on plagiarism tries to make viewers care when creators steal content.
A court has temporarily stopped a judge’s order forbidding the White House from contacting social media companies from taking effect.
YouTube and TikTok are plagued with 20-something “passive income” bros who want your attention — and your money.
One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google’s earliest employees — is leaving the company.
“Resist trying to make things better”: A conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos.
The Florida law prevented certain platforms from banning political candidates.
In his State of the Union speech, the president vowed to hold social media platforms accountable for their harms.
Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship and there’s no easy solution.
Social media bans can make it harder to recruit new followers, but existing supporters can become more toxic.
A spooky anthology series to listen to over Halloween weekend and on many fall nights to come.
Kay Patterson, the mind behind The Organized Soprano, is a decluttering genius.
The world might accept the Taliban as a legitimate government. Will social media companies?
YouTube gives half its revenue to the people who make its videos. Facebook doesn’t want to do that.
But that’s not the point.
The company says it’s adding more control over autoplay in the YouTube Kids app.
Twitter and Facebook bans made people stop talking about Trump.
YouTube’s newest content moderation stat, briefly explained.
Google’s video site has room for everything, from everyone. Is that a feature or a bug?
The number of active hate groups in the US is falling as they find new places to hide online.
Posts that discourage and make fun of Covid-19 vaccination are racking up engagement.
The move comes as false rumors about Covid-19 vaccines are surging online.
Democrats are paying attention after a surprising number of Latino voters in swing states supported Trump.
Videos questioning the election results are racking up hundreds of thousands of views.
YouTube memes are a big part of the president’s Election Day push.
Three-quarters of Americans think that companies “intentionally censor political viewpoints,” according to a new poll from Pew.
A doctor who thinks alien DNA is used in medicine now says hydroxychloroquine is the cure for Covid-19.
Trump-deployed federal officers are using whatever they can to find evidence against activists.
Following the president’s lead, Republicans are all trying to chip away at Section 230.
Either because they don’t take him seriously or because they don’t want to fight him in public. Or both.
What happens when the medical misinformation comes from the president?
But the company won’t say whether it thinks it’s because of a pandemic-fueled rise in streaming.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok are all battling misinformation related to the novel coronavirus.
Influencers, giant TV companies, and everyone in between gets a cut.
The beauty company Too Faced fired its co-founder’s sister after she accused NikkieTutorials of lying about her gender and other parts of her life.
Lilly Singh, Issa Rae, and others have made the leap from online auteurs to bona fide TV personalities. What happens to others who hope to turn followers and views into mainstream careers? We talk to a few who tried.
A ban on “malicious insults” and a complicated FTC ruling mean drastic changes could be coming to YouTube.
They reverse-engineered YouTube’s ad revenue bot to investigate whether it’s penalizing queer content.