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Nikita Bier was the face of some of the platform's biggest changes.

X head of product Nikita Bier is stepping down and says he will move into a role as an advisor, writing that "it's time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster." He shared the update just over a month after celebrating his one-year anniversary on the job, and just […]

Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."

The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since been hospitalized.

Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it easier for legitimate newcomers to participate.

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

The company is also planning to retire its public API.

Mugshawtys and similar pages often frame mugshots as thirst traps. The women featured are humiliated and are sometimes harassed for months and years after their arrests.

Some creators fear the EU AI Act’s regulatory chaos will upend their lucrative businesses. Others are owning it by incorporating AI transparency into their creative process.

Advertisers seem to be spending a whole lot less than they used to on the platform.

Today, I’m talking with Toni Schneider, who is the brand new CEO of the social platform Bluesky — he formally took over after a short stint as interim CEO. This is one of my favorite kinds of interviews to do on Decoder, because a couple years ago, we had Bluesky’s prior CEO, Jay Graber, on […]

The communication-free form of breaking up has become ubiquitous. “I no longer had to bear her energy,” a man who ghosted his partner of four years tells WIRED.

AboFlah talks about his new goals, streaming for charity, and when it’s time to log off.

The Social Media Victims Law Center accused the companies of creating addictive and dangerous platforms.

Videos made with AI will no longer appear in Snapchat's public recommendations.

Nearly 22 percent of children are on Pinterest while there was "no statistically significant change" in AI chatbot use.

Amid rumors of Google breakup, Huffman says "people don't want a summary of reddit, they want reddit."

The company is also removing some of its own AI-writing features.

Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the way following a recent wave of releases for Facebook Groups, Marketplace sellers, Instagram, and gaming.

Advertisers agreed to “reset” relationship with X.