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Twitter's newly minted owner, the self-described “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk, is about to get a crash course on global content moderation. Among his first moves after completing his $44 billion takeover Thursday was to fire the social media platform's…
This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Adidas ended its seven-year business partnership with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, earlier this week after…
This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Not gonna talk about Elon Musk and Twitter in this one. Okay, just a little: Elon and…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, has been hospitalized after an assailant broke into the couple’s residence in San Francisco early Friday morning and attacked him, according to Drew Hammill, a spokesperson for the speaker. Hammill said in a…
We’re about to get another window into just how far this Supreme Court is willing to go to protect Republican politicians — this time, one of former President Donald Trump’s allies. At the beginning of this year, Fulton County District…
There have been several cultural texts recently that depict the coddled super-rich and the underclass that scrambles to serve them in exchange for crumbs of their plenty. On HBO, we’ve had Jesse Armstrong’s “Succession,” a romp about a Murdochian family,…
