TikTok’s younger users will now be told when they’ve been watching for a while. | Westend61/Getty Images Teens can still click right on through the new screen time limit. Amid growing concerns (and lawsuits) about social media’s impact on the...
Category: Internet & technology
Section 230, the internet law the Supreme Court could change, explained
The Supreme Court is considering two cases that could change the internet as we know it. | Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images The pillar of internet free speech seems to be everyone’s target. You may have never heard of it,...
Social media used to be free. Not anymore.
Sandra Hunke, a plumber who is one of the most popular craft influencers in Germany with 120,000 Instagram followers and now also works part-time as a model, poses for a photo in her workshop in North Rhine-Westphalia. | Friso Gentsch/picture...
Stop using your phone number to log in
iStock/Getty Images Phone numbers were never meant to protect or identify us, but we use them to do that all the time. We shouldn’t. When Ugo moved to a new country last October, he got a new phone number. Ugo,...
Musk’s Twitter is getting worse
Twitter’s quality has suffered at the hands of Musk’s leadership. | Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images The broken Twitter everyone warned us about is finally here. If you were accustomed to a time when Twitter — while far from perfect...
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, at the 2019 Code Conference. | Asa Mathat for Vox Media One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google’s earliest employees — is leaving the company. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, who...
The new Congress is enlisting kids in its ongoing fight with Big Tech
Sens. Lindsey Graham, left, and Richard Blumenthal are behind EARN IT, one of several recent online safety bills for children. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images The latest salvo in reining in tech platforms: Laws to protect children from them. It looks...
Leaked memo: Meta executive warns employees they’re still “at the whim of Apple”
People posing for a group photo outside of Meta’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California. | Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images Though the company’s stock jumped, it’s still facing big challenges from Apple, TikTok, and younger users. Meta had...
The forgotten victims of the Adderall shortage
Dion Lee/Vox People with narcolepsy need stimulants, too. But many pharmacy shelves are empty. Kelsey can’t do her job without her medication. The resident physician in Wisconsin, who is in her early 30s, takes the generic version of a stimulant...
The case for better-seats-cost-more movie tickets
Magic Mike’s Last Dance. | Claudette Barius/Warner Bros. AMC’s new plan is ... good? Let’s say I want to take myself to see Magic Mike’s Last Dance on Friday at the AMC 34th Street theater in Manhattan. Could happen! And...