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RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty

Fame Farming

RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty

Makena Kelly

TikTok Is Already Back Online

Miss Me?

TikTok Is Already Back Online

Zoë Schiffer

It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too

bytes the dust

It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too

Zeyi Yang and Andrew Couts

TikTok Is Unavailable in the US—and Gone From the App Stores

App Apocalypse

TikTok Is Unavailable in the US—and Gone From the App Stores

Louise Matsakis

RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

Inquire Within

RedNote Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators

Zeyi Yang

How Much Are Donald Trump’s Truth Social Shares Worth?

Money Money Money

How Much Are Donald Trump’s Truth Social Shares Worth?

Brian Barrett and Dhruv Mehrotra

The SEC Is Suing Elon Musk. It’s All in the Timing

shot clock

The SEC Is Suing Elon Musk. It’s All in the Timing

Brian Barrett

With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘RedNote’

Getting Revenge

With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘RedNote’

Zeyi Yang

Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves

true or false

Latin American Fact-Checkers Brace for Meta’s Next Moves

Jorge Ramis

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

Discovery Time

Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal

Kate Knibbs

Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

No Kidding

Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

Paresh Dave

How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work

Not for You Page

How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work

Matt Burgess

The X-ification of Meta

note taken

The X-ification of Meta

Brian Barrett

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

New Era

Meta Now Lets Users Say Gay and Trans People Have ‘Mental Illness’

Kate Knibbs

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

Hard Facts

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

David Gilbert

Meta Ditches Fact-Checkers Ahead of Trump's Second Term

Breaking News

Meta Ditches Fact-Checkers Ahead of Trump's Second Term

David Gilbert

Facebook and Instagram Ads Push Gun Silencers Disguised as Car Parts

Swap Shop

Facebook and Instagram Ads Push Gun Silencers Disguised as Car Parts

Dhruv Mehrotra

What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok

Platform Pivot

What Billionaire Frank McCourt Would Actually Do With TikTok

Makena Kelly and Zeyi Yang

Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?

Uncanny Valley

Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media?

Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, and Zoë Schiffer

The Billion-Dollar Adult Streaming Industry Is Fueled by Horrific Labor Abuses

Dirty Jobs

The Billion-Dollar Adult Streaming Industry Is Fueled by Horrific Labor Abuses

Lily Hay Newman