100 Days Without Trump on Twitter: A Nation Scrolls More Calmly
New York Times
But how significant is the noise? Many Republicans still seem to be hanging on Mr. Trump’s every word. But others say that without Twitter or indeed the presidency, his voice…
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The Race for Attention on YouTube
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.[1] When we get caught up in heated arguments with our neighbors on…
A Former Alt-Right YouTuber Explains His Methods
The next year, Mr. Robertson and Ms. Southern traveled as far as South Africa, Australia and New Zealand to create similar videos. Over the lifetime of Ms. Southern’s YouTube channel,…
Online Scammers Have a New Offer for You: Vaccine Cards
SAN FRANCISCO — On Etsy, eBay, Facebook and Twitter, little rectangular slips of paper started showing up for sale in late January. Printed on card stock, they measured 3 by…
Amazon’s Clashes With Labor: Days of Conflict and Control
In recent weeks, a heated discussion about whether Amazon’s workers must urinate in bottles because they have no time to go to the bathroom — a level of control that…
Can the Gleam of High-End Watches Thrive on Audio-Only Clubhouse?
It has been called the perfect social media platform for a pandemic, and also a lockdown fad. Clubhouse, the invitation-only social audio app valued at $1 billion[1], counts Elon Musk,…
Pinterest Is Said to Be in Talks to Acquire the Photo App VSCO
SAN FRANCISCO — Pinterest[1] has held talks to buy VSCO[2], a photography app that spawned a teenage social media craze, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The…
Enter the Age of the Vaccine Selfie
Someday, when the history of the pandemic is written, it may be a narrative told partly in images: the despair of crowded hospitals and body bags, the fear and isolation…
How China’s Outrage Machine Kicked Up a Storm Over H&M
When the Swedish fast-fashion giant H&M said in September[1] that it was ending its relationship with a Chinese supplier accused of using forced labor, a few Chinese social media accounts…
Google Aims to Be the Anti-Amazon of E-Commerce. It Has a Long Way to Go.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google tried to copy Amazon’s playbook to become the shopping hub of the internet, with little success. Now it is trying something different: the anti-Amazon strategy. Google…
