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A Legal Decision That Could Change Social Media

Kaitlyn Tiffany

March 25, 2026

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Canceled by Hinge

Annie Joy Williams

March 23, 2026

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Friendship, on Demand

March 18, 2026

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How Meta Executives Talked About Child Safety Behind the Scenes

Michael Scherer and Kaitlyn Tiffany

February 27, 2026

Can Instagram Ruin Your Life? The Jury Will Decide.

Kaitlyn Tiffany

February 9, 2026

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AI’s Memorization Crisis

January 9, 2026

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Could ChatGPT Secretly Tell You How to Vote?

December 4, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

The Last Device You’ll Ever Need

November 20, 2025

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The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here

December 2025 Issue

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Putin Has a New Tool to Monitor Russians

October 11, 2025

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YouTube’s Sneaky AI ‘Experiment’

August 22, 2025

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Meta Swears This Time Is Different

July 18, 2025

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Judges Don’t Know What AI’s Book Piracy Means

July 14, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence

Sexting With Gemini

August 2025 Issue

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What AI Thinks It Knows About You

Jonathan L. Zittrain

May 21, 2025

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We’re Back to the Actually Internet

Kaitlyn Tiffany

May 5, 2025

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How Social-Media Sites Can Fight Hate Without Censorship

April 15, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now

April 11, 2025

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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

March 20, 2025

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The Libs Are Having Their Paranoia Moment

Kaitlyn Tiffany

January 28, 2025

‘I Won’t Touch Instagram’

Kaitlyn Tiffany

January 16, 2025

Beyond Doomscrolling

January 16, 2025

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Atlantic Intelligence

Can Generative AI Uncover the ‘Language of Biology’?

January 10, 2025

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Fact-Checking Was Too Good for Facebook

January 8, 2025

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He’s No Elon Musk

January 8, 2025

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We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This

January 7, 2025

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The Bluesky Bubble

November 15, 2024

Nobody Look at Mark Zuckerberg

Kaitlyn Tiffany

November 4, 2024

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The Atlantic Daily

The Trouble With Party Invites Today

October 4, 2024

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A New Development in the Debate About Instagram and Teens

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

July 17, 2024

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Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore

December 18, 2023

The Huge Multistate Lawsuit Against Meta Isn’t Serious Enough

Kaitlyn Tiffany

October 27, 2023

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The Metaverse Is Bad

October 21, 2021

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