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How a Social Network Fails

October 7, 2023

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The Red Pill of Humility

Arthur C. Brooks

October 5, 2023

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Group-Chat Culture Is Out of Control

September 28, 2023

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The Atlantic Guide to Privacy

Kids Deserve Privacy Online. They’re Not Getting It.

S. Matthew Liao and Claudia Passos Ferreira

September 14, 2023

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Slack Is Basically Facebook Now

September 14, 2023

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The Seven Social-Media Commandments

August 11, 2023

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The Ugly Honesty of Elon Musk’s Twitter Rebrand

July 31, 2023

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The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter

July 30, 2023

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Why Elon Killed the Bird

July 25, 2023

How to Redeem Social Media

July 18, 2023

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The Atlantic Daily

The Endless Cycle of Social Media

July 7, 2023

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Zombie Twitter Has Arrived

Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel

July 6, 2023

Elon Musk Really Broke Twitter This Time

July 3, 2023

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Social Media Has Collapsed Good Debate

June 24, 2023

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The Atlantic Daily

What the Teen-Smartphone Panic Says About Adults

Kelli María Korducki

June 14, 2023

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The ‘Single Greatest Hindrance’ to Learning

Conor Friedersdorf

June 13, 2023

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No One Knows Exactly What Social Media Is Doing to Teens

Kaitlyn Tiffany

June 13, 2023

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The Problem With Comparing Social Media to Big Tobacco

June 1, 2023

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DeSantis Is Making the Same Mistake Democrats Did in 2020

May 25, 2023

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Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network

May 23, 2023

America Is Getting TikTok All Wrong

Tim Hwang and Tianyu Fang

May 18, 2023

Ben Franklin Would Have Loved Bluesky

May 12, 2023

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AI Is About to Make Social Media (Much) More Toxic

Jonathan Haidt and Eric Schmidt

May 5, 2023

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Make Yourself Happy: Be Kind

Arthur C. Brooks

April 27, 2023

Elon Musk Revealed What Twitter Always Was

April 21, 2023

Even Influencers Are Scared of the Internet

April 17, 2023

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Elon Musk’s Free-Speech Charade Is Over

April 12, 2023

The New ‘Transparent’ Twitter Isn’t Very Transparent

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

April 5, 2023

The Twitter I Love Doesn’t Exist Anymore

Virginia Heffernan

April 1, 2023

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The Influencer Industry Is Having an Existential Crisis

Kaitlyn Tiffany

March 31, 2023

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What Social Media Is Doing to Finance

James Surowiecki

March 13, 2023

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Elon Musk Is Spiraling

March 9, 2023

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Prepare for the Textpocalypse

Matthew Kirschenbaum

March 8, 2023

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How to Take Back Control of What You Read on the Internet

March 6, 2023

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Adults Are Letting Teen Girls Down

Conor Friedersdorf

February 21, 2023

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I Watched Elon Musk Kill Twitter’s Culture From the Inside

Rumman Chowdhury

February 17, 2023