The case of the missing TikTok ban

A month after the House moved to force a sale, it’s crickets in the Senate

X risks a ban in Brazil

Elon Musk defies a court order to restore user accounts — but there’s more to the story than free speech

Marissa Mayer’s eternal Sunshine

Behind the rocky launch of a photo-sharing app was a co-founder about to quit and months of employee warnings that its new project wasn’t ready

The competing forces pulling Threads

Nine months in, what is Meta's text-based social network for? Recent feature additions offer some clues

The ad model is coming to AI

Perplexity’s plan to add sponsored questions could be the future of chatbots — if it doesn’t destroy users’ trust

Inside Grindr's plan to squeeze its users

The company’s bet on AI boyfriends and other paywalled features is making some employees nervous

The indie AI companies are falling apart

From Stability to Inflection, would-be challengers to the giants are failing to execute

Florida’s new age verification push

States want platforms and websites to verify users' ages — but there's a better solution available

The Department of Justice comes for Apple

One way or another, real competition may be coming to the iPhone

Reddit goes public

It’s a pillar of the social web — but will it make a good investment?

The Supreme Court considers jawboning

Plus: the TikTok ban slows down

How CrowdTangle predicted the future

Meta is killing off a pioneering tool for platform transparency — but the movement it kickstarted is just beginning