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We know who police have in custody for the murder of the UnitedHealthCare CEO — and digital sleuths have already found his Goodreads account.

Robots and Machines

The Arrested CEO Killing Suspect Might Have the Wildest Goodreads Account We’ve Ever Seen

By Noor Al-Sibai

Millions of users are flocking to Twitter alternatives Threads and Bluesky as the Elon Musk-owned platform devolves into a hellhole.

Twitter Is Getting Absolutely Destroyed as Users Flee to Rivals Run by People Who Haven’t Lost Their Minds

By Victor Tangermann

Truth Social, Donald Trump's Twitter clone, is apparently as dramatic behind the scenes as his White House once was.

Trump’s “Truth Social” Crumbling Behind the Scenes as Staff Catch It Doing Something Extremely Anti-MAGA

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meteorologists are getting death threats from conspiracy nuts, who believe they're covering up government weather control. Obviously.

Science & Energy

Meteorologists Are Getting Death Threats From Insane Hurricane Conspiracy Theorists

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The app SocialAI simulates the experience of making hit tweets on social media and getting thousands of replies in return.

Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre New AI App Simulates If You Were Famous With Millions of Fawning Fans

By Frank Landymore

Billionaire X owner Elon Musk has repeatedly engaged with media flowing from a multimillion-dollar Russian propaganda scheme.

Elon Musk Repeatedly Promoted “Conservative” Outlet That Was Secretly Being Funded by Moscow, According to DOJ Indictment

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

X-formerly-Twitter owner Musk reportedly regretted launching Twitter Blue almost immediately, according to an upcoming book.

As He Realized His Mistake, Elon Musk Begged Twitter Staff to Turn Off the New Feature He’d Pushed For

By Victor Tangermann

#Trumpisacoward trended on Truth Social in response to Donald Trump's decision to back out of an ABC-hosted debate against Kamala Harris.

“Trump Is a Coward” Trends on Truth Social

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An embarrassing Facebook photo of Donald Trump's vice president running mate JD Vance has publicly surfaced, showing him passed out drunk.

Trump’s Millennial VP Pick Left a Facebook Pic Up of Himself Passed Out Drunk in College

By Sharon Adarlo

Reporters at The Guardian made fake accounts for a generic male user at Instagram and Facebook and were then pushed sexist images.

Brand-New Instagram Accounts Are Pushed Toward Scantily-Clad Women and Sexist Memes

By Sharon Adarlo

The new generative AI tech from Snapchat aims to bring an augmented reality to your videos using your phone's hardware.

Artificial Intelligence

New AI Snapchat Filter Transforms You in Real Time

By Frank Landymore

X-formerly-Twitter is in deep trouble — and owner Elon Musk is on his knees, yet again, begging advertisers to return.

Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter’s Revenue Plunges

By Victor Tangermann

Donald Trump's social media company Truth Social has suffered a steep drop in the stock market, continuing a weeks-long slide.

Trump’s “Truth Social” Stock Is Crashing Again

By Sharon Adarlo

Trump Media, which owns Truth Social, only took in $770,000 in revenue in the last quarter despite its multi-billion dollar valuation.

Donald Trump’s “Truth Social” Admits It Lost $327 Million This Quarter

By Frank Landymore

Data from two research firms, as well as official figures from X, formerly Twitter, show that the platform has lost millions of users.

More and More People Leaving Twitter as Elon Musk Ruins It

By Frank Landymore

MrBeast, one of the world's most famous YouTubers, is begging wannabe influencers not to follow in his footsteps.

MrBeast Warns Youth Not to Be Like Him

By Noor Al-Sibai

That viral review of a body butter that seems to attract wolf spiders has garnered headlines being debunked -- but not everyone's convinced.

Science & Energy

Experts Say Popular Body Lotion Not Attracting Horny Spiders

By Noor Al-Sibai

It sounds like an update to an age old adage: what happens when you take a smartphone away from a narcissist?

Health & Medicine

Something Fascinating Happens When You Take Smartphones Away From Narcissists

By Noor Al-Sibai

Plex, which earned its rep as a way to stream your own media, added a new feature that shares what users watch, often without them knowing.

Users Horrified as Streaming Service Tells Friends and Family What They’re Watching

By Frank Landymore

X CEO Elon Musk posted on the social media platform on Tuesday, “There is a large graveyard filled with my enemies."

Elon Musk Says There’s a “Large Graveyard Filled With My Enemies”

By Sharon Adarlo

Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social is burning through tens of millions of dollars, leaving its future anything but certain.

Trump’s Social Network Is Failing Miserably

By Victor Tangermann

As part of his vision for turning Twitter into an "everything app," billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to launch dating features.

Elon Musk Wants to Turn Twitter Into a Dating App

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's been a bit more than a year since Elon Musk bought Twitter, and in that time, the company's value has plummeted more than 50 percent.

Twitter Admits Elon Musk Has Destroyed More Than Half Its Value

By Noor Al-Sibai

In his gambit to take over Twitter, Elon Musk seems to have played himself, his users, and his lenders to the tune of $44 billion.

Twitter Use Has Absolutely Plummeted Since Elon Musk Took Over

By Noor Al-Sibai

Introducing bonesmashing, an ostensible TikTok trend in which young men claim that they're hitting themselves in the face with hammers.

Doctors Recommend Not Hitting Your Face With Hammers, Regardless What You Saw on TikTok

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook’s Kendall Jenner AI Recommends Other Tequilas Over Hers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

X-formerly-Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino's speaking tour is on pause for the foreseeable future following her disastrous Code interview.

Twitter CEO Says That Due to Reasons, She Has to Cancel Appearance Defending Elon Musk’s Deranged Behavior

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An actor seems to have given a bizarre explanation for why he liked a bunch of bigoted posts: that AI had something to do with it.

Artificial Intelligence

Actor Blames AI for Liking Red-Pilled Social Media Posts

By Noor Al-Sibai

X-formerly-Twitter's new-ish CEO didn't have the X app on her iPhone home screen when she showed it to a crowd last week.

The CEO of X Doesn’t Have X on Her Home Screen

By Noor Al-Sibai

If killing X-formerly-Twitter was always Elon Musk's plan, he might soon be successful if he starts charging everyone to use it.

Elon Musk May Actually Kill Twitter For Real This Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

X, formerly known as Twitter, is facing more than 2,200 arbitration cases and could be on the hook for more than $3.5 million in legal fees.

Elon Musk Refusing to Pay Severance to Fired Twitter Employees May Be Backfiring Spectacularly

By Sharon Adarlo

Getty / Futurism

Elon Musk Will Pay Your Legal Bill If Your Tweets Got You Fired

By Noor Al-Sibai

Another stone left unbranded in Twitter's disastrous X rebrand: CEO Linda Yaccarino's former username, which was quickly snagged by a troll.

Trolls Immediately Steal Twitter CEO’s Handle After “X” Name Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Officials at China's Hangzhou zoo want you to know that their Malayan sun bear is not, in fact, a human in a costume, thanks!

Science & Energy

Chinese Zoo Denies Their Bear Is a Dude in a Bear Costume

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After abruptly changing Twitter's name to "X," Elon Musk has also taken over the handle associated with the letter.

Elon Musk Seizes @X Account From Guy Who Owned It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Instagram's freshly-minted Twitter rival Threads is officially the most rapidly downloaded app in history, with over 70 million users.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter Killer Is One of the Fastest Growing Apps Ever

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An internal investigation at the unicorn social media startup IRL has revealed that "95 percent" of the app's users were "automated or bots."

Social Media App Shuts Down After Admitting 95% of Users Were Bots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Following multiple defaults on rent and a failure to even respond to its landlord, it looks like Twitter's Colorado HQ is kaput.

Judge Tells Cops to Evict Twitter Office Over Unpaid Rent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The CEO of Reddit is big mad that his moderators are protesting him, and he might just do something about it.

Reddit CEO Flies Into a Rage, Threatens Protesting Moderators

By Noor Al-Sibai

In response to controversial and platform-altering changes to its API, Redditors are officially mobilizing against Reddit and its CEO.

Reddit Is in a Full-Blown Rebellion Against Its CEO

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A warning to the wise: a new Twitter bug is apparently resurfacing and restoring deleted tweets and retweets. This website is broken.

New Twitter Bug Is So Embarrassing Our Heads Are Going to Explode

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter CEO Elon Musk declared yesterday that Twitter was preparing to purge inactive accounts from the platform.

Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Purge the Accounts of Dead People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of ex-TikTok employees has blown the whistle on the company's list of users who watched so-called "gay content."

TikTok Reportedly Kept a Log of Users Who Watched Gay Content

By Noor Al-Sibai

Legal experts say that Elon Musk's most recent Twitter verification fiasco might get the platform into new trouble with the FTC.

Twitter May Be in Deep Trouble Over That Blue Check Stunt

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter Circles is broken. Very broken. So broken that, in a particularly terrible turn, some folks' secret nude photos appeared in random feeds. Not good.

Twitter Accidentally Made Users’ Secret Nudes Public

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's latest Twitter verification gambit is so convoluted, even some of his biggest stans are coming out against it.

Even Elon Musk’s Biggest Fans Are Aghast at His Latest Scheme

By Noor Al-Sibai

TikTok CEO Shou Chew finally took the stand in Congress yesterday. The biggest takeaway? Congressman Richard Hudson doesn't know how WiFi works.

Clueless Congressman Bewildered That TikTok Connects Using WiFi

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Shocker: bottling your kid's childhood into social media content for the sake of monetization makes their lives miserable.

Their Parents Were Family Influencers, Now Their Kids Hate Them

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It very much looks like a lot of Twitter Blue subscribers are angry that their genius tweets aren't getting algorithmic priority yet.

People Are Mad They Aren’t Getting Attention on Twitter After Paying for Twitter Blue

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former Twitter executive is sounding off on Elon Musk after the CEO bashed a disabled ex-employee on the platform and had to apologize later.

Ex-Twitter VP Says Elon Musk Is Behaving “Like the Local Drunk”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Steve Davis, a SpaceX alum and the current CEO of The Boring Company, might be the first "Goon" in line for the CEO role at Elon Musk-owned Twitter.

Elon Musk Rumored to Be Giving Twitter CEO Job to Guy in Charge of Digging Holes in the Ground

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

She thinks the app Gas, which just launched a paid tier, is "intrinsically problematic," preying on teenage insecurity as a means of generating profit.

Expert Warns That App Where You Can Only Say Nice Things Could Have Dark Consequences

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you, dear reader, logged onto Twitter last night and found your For You feed to be uncharacteristically Elon Musk-heavy, rest assured: you weren't alone.

Twitter Tweaks Algorithm to Force Feed Everyone Elon Musk’s Tweets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

If you were on Elon Musk-owned Twitter at all yesterday evening, you may have noticed: it was broken. Unsurprisingly, things apparently weren't chill at HQ.

Panicked Elon Musk Asked Twitter Employees to Stop Building New Features as Site’s Infrastructure Crumbles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

"Something is wrong," Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday evening, in response to Twitter influencers' complaints about their virality numbers.

Elon Musk Sets His Twitter Account to Private

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Vivek Murthy is worried that kids are fighting a losing battle against social media giants that are trying to maximize their easily earned engagement.

Neuroscience and Brain

US Surgeon General Warns Against 13-Year-Old Using Social Media

By Frank Landymore

According to a scathing new report, Twitter's new Head of Trust and Safety has been breaking Twitter's rules on the whims of Elon Musk and his many feuds.

Leaked Messages Seem to Show Elon Musk Using Twitter to Punish His Enemies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

TikTok employees reporetdly have access to a secret "heating" button. Hit that button, and content gets boosted — unbeknownst to users.

Employees at TikTok Apparently Have a Secret Button That Can Make Anything Go Viral

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Desperate Twitter Auctioning Off Its Used Office Supplies

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Toilet paper is a pretty baseline office ask. But apparently, those remaining at Elon Musk-owned Twitter's New York HQ are privy to no such luxury.

Twitter Employees Beg Elon Musk for Toilet Paper as Horrid Stench Seeps From Bathroom

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's no secret that social media use can change adult brain anatomy — but a new study suggests that it may affect adolescent brains differently.

Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Find Something Strange in Brain Scans of Kids Hooked on Social Media

By Noor Al-Sibai

At a certain point, everyone's gonna get tired of the internet — or so goes the argument of one of the people who pioneered the web.

Professor Predicts That This Whole Internet Thing Will Soon Blow Over

By Noor Al-Sibai

George Hotz, the infamous hacker-turned-entrepeneur-turned-Twitter-intern, just left his internship role at Twitter as a direct result of Elon Musk's chaos.

Even Twitter’s Intern Just Resigned in Disappointment

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has refused to pay the rent for Twitter's San Francisco HQ for several weeks now, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Squatter Elon Musk Reportedly No Longer Paying Rent at Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré