Kaitlyn Tiffany

After the 2016 elections, critics blamed Facebook for undermining American democracy. They believed that the app’s algorithmic News Feed pushed hyperpartisan content, outright fake news, and Russian-seeded disinformation to huge numbers of people. (The U.S. director of national intelligence agreed, […]

The World Series is the most important thing that can happen to a baseball player, and it is happening now to a bunch of them. You may have noticed that many have been conspicuously chewing things the entire time, including

For decades, my dad has been saying that he doesn’t want to hear a word about self-driving cars until they exist fully and completely. Until he can go to sleep behind the wheel (if there is a wheel) in his

A lover of magazines may find a few good reasons to pay attention to AFM, a new publication about sex and relationships. It’s visually fun and full of excellent writing. It’s also the latest in a long line of magazines

Updated at 8:07 a.m. ET on October 15, 2024 The venture capitalist Shaun Maguire is a particularly prolific poster. And lately, his takes have become almost unavoidable. Maguire manages Sequoia Capital’s stake in Elon Musk’s various companies, including the social

My problem is my habit of scrolling through Instagram Reels only at night, right before I go to sleep. Defenses worn down by the day, I am susceptible to nonsense, and unsure of whether what I’m seeing is “real.” For

“I’m a proud crypto bro. You’re starting to become one of us, if not already,” Farokh Sarmad, a social-media influencer, said to former President Donald Trump during a livestream on X last night. According to the platform’s listener counter, more

Teenagers are said to live on their phones, and one of the places where they spend the most time is Instagram. For many years, the perception has been that they are totally unsupervised there, much to their detriment. That may

When X was blocked in Brazil on Saturday—the result of a legal skirmish between the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, and Alexandre de Moraes, a justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court—a sizable crater was left behind. More than 20 million people lost