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Byline: Taylor Lorenz and Will Oremus One of the newsletter platform Substack's most prominent writers is abandoning the platform over its decision not to moderate praise for Nazis and pro-Holocaust [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When Joseph Arujo, a 20-year-old content creator and student in Los Angeles, began seeing 2023 recap videos in his feed last month, he began scouring his hard [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - California state senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) has announced plans to introduce a bill aimed at protecting child influencers from financial exploitation, a move [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When Elon Musk reinstated far-right influencer and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's account on X on Sunday night, digital marketer and activist Nandini Jammi sprang into action. She [...]

Byline: Herb Scribner and Taylor Lorenz CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misidentified actress Jenna Ortega as Jenny. The article has been corrected. - - - Netflix released its [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz The biggest online phenomenon of the year is an animated video series that primarily appeals to children, filled with obscure internet and gaming references that most adults [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Every morning before school, Evelyn, a seventh-grader in suburban Kansas City, props her iPhone up against the mirror of her vanity, applies a series of makeup and [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Substack, a platform created largely for newsletters, is rolling out a suite of new video creation and editing tools - a sign of how critical video has [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein and Taylor Lorenz On Dec. 20, 2022, Topher Olive went to a McDonald's in the town of Post Falls, Idaho, and ordered a limited edition 'smoky' double [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Taylor Lorenz, Naomi Nix and Joseph Menn In the weeks following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, Twitter user @breakingbaht criticized leftists, academics and 'minorities' for [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When the University of Colorado Buffaloes take the field Friday night against Washington State, their win-loss record will be a disappointing 4-6. Since their last win Oct. [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh graduated in 2020 with a degree in journalism from Rutgers University. But instead of going to work in a traditional newsroom, he decided to build [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell and Taylor Lorenz The Israel-Gaza war has again placed TikTok at the center of a heated argument over the globally dominant social media app's risks and power, [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell and Taylor Lorenz The U.S. Census Bureau tallies for the federal government an extensive list of 22,607 American industries, recognizing those who work in such narrow fields [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When war broke out between Israel and Hamas, Leila Warah, a 25-year-old journalist in the West Bank, leaped into action. 'War is erupting in Palestine right now,' [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz On Friday morning, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) will kick off a four-hour live stream from a Washington rooftop overlooking the White House with some of the biggest [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Instagram's text-based social platform Threads last week rolled out its new search function, a crucial step toward the platform's expansion and one that would [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell and Taylor Lorenz The historic double strike that is paralyzing Hollywood could supercharge the creator economy, the wildly popular market of online influencers and video makers who [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz For a generation of internet users looking for answers, Google was the first stop. Google became so associated with search that its name became synonymous with the [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - On Thursday, Twitter announced that it would begin sharing ad revenue with content creators on its platform for the first time. But the offer [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz On Monday morning, the 'Today' show broadcast a television segment about an alleged TikTok challenge that was killing people. 'A stunt, intended to rack up views. . [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Alex Pearlman, a stand-up comedian in Philadelphia, woke up one morning in June and turned on the local news. A portion of Interstate 95 had collapsed. Pearlman [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - On Tuesday, just minutes after the Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who'd made relentless online threats to a stranger, ruling that [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell and Taylor Lorenz TikTok's chief operating officer, V Pappas, stepped down Thursday after five years helping to transform what was once an obscure short-video service into one [...]

Byline: Lauren Weber, Caitlin Gilbert and Taylor Lorenz A small group of conservative doctors has sought to shape the nation's most contentious policies on abortion and transgender rights by promoting [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz CANNES, France - TikTok may be unwelcomed in Washington and Montana's capital, Helena, where the state legislature has passed a statewide ban that goes into effect next [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz In the late aughts, right before the financial crash, the world of Manhattan socialites was upended by an 18-year-old blogger in Illinois. The college student's blog, Park [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Caryn Marjorie, 23, a social media influencer with nearly 2 million followers on Snapchat, never has time to talk to all her fans. She [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Heather Armstrong, a pioneering blogger who transformed women's media and altered the public perception of motherhood, has died at the age of 47. Armstrong, who also went [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Coyne Lloyd, a 35-year-old tech investor, was visiting his family in Upstate New York recently when he decided to set up some dates in [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz and Chris Velazco Faced with a declining stock price and slow user growth, Snapchat announced Wednesday that the company is pivoting away from its focus on close [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - The newsletter platform Substack's new feature called Notes, which functions similarly to Twitter, rolled out to all users on Tuesday. Whether it will become [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Since she was a small child, Cam Barrett, now 24 and a social media strategist in Chicago, had her life documented online. First on [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Matt Taibbi, who was chosen by Twitter owner Elon Musk to write segments of the controversial 'Twitter Files,' announced Friday that he's quitting the [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - A flurry of headlines about a new social media app, Lemon8, which shares ByteDance as its parent company along with TikTok, pushed the app [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - On Thursday, Republican Rep. Earl L. 'Buddy' Carter of Georgia lambasted TikTok CEO Shou Chew for alleged viral challenges he attributed to TikTok. With [...]

Byline: Jeff Stein, Cristiano Lima and Taylor Lorenz Last October, President Biden spent more than an hour at the White House with eight star TikTok creators, as Democrats sought to [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - David Ma, a film director in Brooklyn, never had the money to go to film school. And though he loved shooting films, he was [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - Kristoffer Reinman, a 32-year-old music producer and investor, was scrolling through Instagram last fall when he began to encounter violent videos - videos of [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When Gharidah Farooqi interviews a male politician for television, she does research and plans out her questions, as any journalist would. She is professional, well-dressed and asks [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Elon Musk's restoration of 10 Twitter accounts that were banned under the platform's previous management has generated enough engagement since they returned to the platform to likely [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - TikTok has opened the doors of its transparency and accountability center here to visitors, and announced a slew of updates to the app and [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz The story of how Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old founder of the crypto exchange FTX, misused billions of dollars while charming the media and becoming a darling of [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz When Pia Baroncini, an influencer and the creative director of the fashion label LPA, decided to launch a podcast at the start of the pandemic in 2020, [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell and Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - A confrontation between a member of Elon Musk's security team and an alleged stalker that Musk blamed on a Twitter account [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz LOS ANGELES - The online creator world has boomed during the pandemic. Sunday night, its stars gathered at the Beverly Hilton for the 2022 Streamy Awards, the [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Twitter will no longer enforce its policy against coronavirus misinformation, worrying experts who say the move could have serious consequences in the midst of a still-deadly pandemic. [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Elon Musk plans to reinstate nearly all previously banned Twitter accounts - to the alarm of activists and online trust and safety experts. After posting a Twitter [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz Elon Musk is poised to reinstate a mass of suspended Twitter accounts - if the results of his latest user poll play out - to the alarm [...]

Byline: Taylor Lorenz With over 1.7 million followers, Dril, known for his absurdist humor, is the type of influencer who could only emerge on an app like Twitter. Dril started [...]