If this phone belongs to someone who works at an executive branch agency, it may not have TikTok on it for much longer. | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images The omnibus spending bill includes a limited ban that’s mostly symbolic....
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The billionaire vibe shift
Amanda Northrop/Vox It was year the billionaires showed who they really are. At first, 2022 looked like it would be another celebratory year for the extremely rich. In early January, Tesla stock was trading at well over $300 per share....
Twitter enters its chaotic new multicolored, multishaped check mark phase
A verified image of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Twitter Blue is back, and this time it’s also gold, gray, square, and passive-aggressive. It has taken several weeks longer than planned, but...
Fortnite maker Epic Games has to pay $520 million for tricking kids and violating their privacy
The kids love Fortnite. | Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The FTC says Epic broke children’s privacy laws and manipulated users into making unauthorized purchases. While your kids were playing Fortnite, Fortnite was playing with consumer protection laws. Epic...
Elon Musk’s future as Twitter CEO is suddenly in question
Elon Musk has been making major changes to Twitter’s workforce, company culture, and product roadmap after buying the company in late October. | Patrick Pleul/AFP via Getty Images Musk asked Twitter users if he should step down. A majority of...
Meta is facing the test of its lifetime
Mark Zuckerberg’s avatar demoed at the company’s Connect event in 2022 In an internal memo, a top exec says a “perfect storm of skepticism” won’t deter Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse plans. Meta has had a tough year. In 2022, the company...
Elon Musk’s Twitter journalist purge has begun
Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk The move seems connected to a debate over an account that tracked the whereabouts of Elon Musk’s jet. Twitter has suspended the accounts of several high-profile journalists, many of whom have been reporting on...
Why the Twitter Files actually matter
Amanda Northrop/Vox Twitter’s previous management made some controversial political decisions. Some of them haven’t held up. Big surprise: The Twitter Files — the reports based on internal Twitter documents and messages that the company’s new owner Elon Musk provided to...
How workers fought back in 2022
Gloria Bartolo leads marching postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers as they demand better wages, student housing, child care, and more from the University of California Los Angeles, on December 1, as contract negotiations continue and thousands strike. | Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews...
The 80-year-old book that explains Elon Musk and tech’s new right-wing tilt
Getty Images The long shadow of James Burnham’s The Managerial Revolution. Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” — Elon Musk’s self-styled exposé of the alleged excesses of the “woke” managers of Twitter before he bought it — there’s...