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2026

January

Most of Instagram’s ads ran on Reels in 2025, data shows (CNBC)
Three Reasons We Can’t Get Enough of LinkedIn (WSJ)
Reddit overtakes TikTok in UK thanks to search algorithms and gen Z (The Guardian)
How Meta’s Reels Became a $50 Billion Business (WSJ)

2025

December

November

I’m officially done with YouTube Kids (The Verge)
X’s messy About This Account rollout has caused utter chaos (The Verge)
Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda (The Guardian)
Americans’ Social Media Use 2025 (Pew Research Center)
Ad Spend in the Creator Economy Expected to Hit $37 Billion in 2025 (The Wrap)
TikTok will let you choose how much AI-generated content you want to see (TechCrunch)
I’m Going to Be a Dad. Here’s Why I’m Not Posting About My Kid Online
Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button (Engadget)

October

X to launch marketplace for buying inactive handles (TechCrunch)

September

Meta launches ‘Vibes,’ a short-form video feed of AI slop (TechCrunch)
Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms (TechCrunch)
WhatsApp adds built-in text translations on iPhone and Android (The Verge)
Robinhood, a Broker Built for Social-Media Age, to Launch Its Own Social Network (WSJ)
Instagram is coming to iPad, 15 years later (The Verge)

August

Spotify is adding DMs (The Verge)
He Sold His Likeness. Now His Avatar Is Shilling Supplements on TikTok. (NYTimes)
Thanks for Your $1 Billion Job Offer, Mark Zuckerberg. I’m Gonna Pass. (WSJ)
Reddit wants to be a search engine now (The Verge)

July

Meta shares climb 10% on revenue beat, raised forecast (CNBC)
YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections (TechCrunch)
Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app (NBCNews)
Bluesky can really keep up with the news now that it has activity notifications (The Verge)
TikTok Building New Version of App Ahead of Expected U.S. Sale (The Information)
Musk’s X Hires Entrepreneur Nikita Bier as Head of Product (Bloomberg)

June

For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source (NiemanLab)
WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App (NYTimes)
TikTok Pushes Deeper Into AI-Generated Video Ads With New Tools (Bloomberg)

May

TikTok Working on Photo Messaging Feature Despite Employee Concerns Over Sextortion (The Information)

April

The group chats that changed America (Semafor)
Facebook cracks down on spammy content by cutting reach and monetization (TechCrunch)
Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting all your Facebook friends (TechCrunch)
Bluesky Is Rolling Out Official Verification (Wired)
OpenAI is building a social network (The Verge)
Instagram’s Mosseri Positions App for TikTok Turmoil (The Information)

March

Musk’s xAI Startup Swallows Up X Social Network in Surprise Deal (Bloomberg)
Facebook Returns to Its Roots: Showing Posts From Friends and Family (NYTimes)
Meta unveils new community notes program; will not apply distribution penalties nor limit flow of information (Fox News)
Oracle Is Leading Contender to Help Run TikTok in New Deal (The Information)
Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. (NYTimes)
Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit’s (The Verge)

February

Meta is firing about 20 employees for leaking information (The Verge)
ByteDance’s US Backers Say China Growth to Counter Any TikTok Ban Damage (Bloomberg)
TikTok Grabs Market Share From Shein Despite Looming Risks (Bloomberg)
Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more (9to5Mac)

January

Mark Zuckerberg said that Meta missed TikTok’s rise because it didn’t seem ‘social’ enough, leaked recording reveals (Business Insider)
Mark Zuckerberg’s Post (Facebook)
TikTok’s parent company is in active discussions about a deal, board member says (CNN)
Meta will soon let you link your WhatsApp account with Instagram and Facebook (TechCrunch)
Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits (TechCrunch)
Bluesky adds TikTok mode while Elon mulls reviving Vine in the latest banning drama (Windows Central)
Bumble Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd to Return as CEO in March (Bloomberg)
Charlwin Mao, the Chinese tech founder welcoming ‘TikTok refugees’ (FT)
TikTok Prepares for Immediate Shut-Off in the U.S. on Sunday (The Information)
Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed launches mobile apps (TechCrunch)
Meta to Cut Roughly 5% of Staff, Targeting Lowest Performers (Bloomberg)
Xiaohongshu, China’s answer to Instagram, hits no. 1 on the App Store as TikTok faces US shutdown (TechCrunch)
Billionaire Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty proposes bid for TikTok’s US assets (Reuters)
The Anti-Social Century (The Atlantic)
Meta’s fact-checking changes are just what Trump’s FCC head asked for (The Verge)
Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending Down (WSJ)
Meta’s AI Profiles Are Indistinguishable From Terrible Spam That Took Over Facebook (404 Media)

2024

December

Instagram Expected to Generate 50% of Meta’s US Ad Sales in 2025 (Bloomberg)
China’s Instagram-Style Xiaohongshu Crosses $1 Billion in Profit (Bloomberg)
Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup (TechCrunch)

November

Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated (Wired)
Threads is testing the option to choose your own default feed (The Verge)
Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News (Mediaite)
Bluesky breaching rules around disclosure of information, says EU (FT)
Threads’ algorithm will focus more on the people you follow (The Verge)
As Bluesky soars, Threads rolls out custom feeds globally (TechCrunch)
Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky (The Verge)
Bluesky tops 20M users, narrowing gap with Instagram Threads (TechCrunch)
Meta to Launch Ads on Threads in Early 2025 (The Information)
With Surge in New Users, Bluesky Emerges as X Alternative (NYTimes)
In Europe, Instagram Ads Are About to Get Less Personal (WSJ)
TikTok’s latest feature lets music fans ‘Share to TikTok’ from Spotify and Apple Music (TechCrunch)
X updates block feature, letting blocked users see your public posts (TechCrunch)

October

The fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops (TechCrunch)
Bluesky raises $15M Series A, plans to launch subscriptions (TechCrunch)
Who Gets the TikTok in the Divorce? The Messy Fight Over Valuable Social Media Accounts (WSJ)
Farewell to Foursquare’s app (TechCrunch)
Meta is laying off employees at WhatsApp, Instagram, and more (The Verge)
Meta fires staff for abusing $25 meal credits (FT)
YouTube takes a baby step toward labeling authentic video (The Verge)
X Cleared to Return in Brazil After Musk Bows to Judge’s Demands (Bloomberg)
Threads users can now see who follows them from other fediverse servers (TechCrunch)

September

Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes (NYTimes)
JPMorgan Plans to Report Customers Who Exploited TikTok ‘Glitch’ to Authorities (WSJ)
Pavel Durov: Telegram founder says France arrest is ‘misguided’ (The Guardian)
No X in Brazil? No problem, Brazilians say. (Washington Post)

August

Telegram CEO Charged in France for Crimes Committed on His App (Bloomberg)
TikTok must face lawsuit over 10-year-old girl’s death, US court rules (Reuters)
Instagram adds what photos have always needed: words (The Verge)
Telegram Founder Was Wooed and Targeted by Governments (WSJ)
Telegram Founder’s Arrest Part of Broad Investigation, French Prosecutors Say (NYTimes)
Macron loves Telegram. French judges hate it. (Politico)
How Telegram’s Founder Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted Man (NYTimes)
Telegram CEO Held Over Alleged Child Protection Failures on App (Bloomberg)
Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France (Reuters)
Meta lets you cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads. Here’s how to do it. (TechCrunch)
X says it’s closing operations in Brazil (TechCrunch)
‘Bumble fumble’: online dating apps struggle as people swear off swiping (The Guardian)
TikTok comes for messaging apps with the addition of group chats (TechCrunch)
Instagram is testing its own take on Snap Map (The Verge)
TikTok adds in-app hubs for videos about movies and TV shows (The Verge)

July

Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp has 100M monthly active users in the US (TechCrunch)
noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (TechCrunch)

June

Former Snap engineer launches Butterflies, a social network where AIs and humans coexist (TechCrunch)
Threads finally launches its API for developers (TechCrunch)
X is officially making likes (mostly) private for everyone (Engadget)
Photo-sharing app BeReal acquired by Voodoo for €500mn (FT)
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies (TechCrunch)
Instagram confirms test of ‘unskippable’ ads (TechCrunch)
X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content (TechCrunch)

May

Exclusive: TikTok preparing a US copy of the app’s core algorithm, sources say (Reuters)
Elon Musk Wants to Make X’s Likes Private to Hide Your Favorite ‘Edgy’ Content (Gizmodo)
Twitter is officially X.com now (The Verge)
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board (TechCrunch)
Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users (TechCrunch)

April

Tinder gets a ‘Share My Date’ feature for users to send date plans to their curious friends (TechCrunch)
TikTok Notes starts rolling out as a new rival to Instagram (The Verge)
Invitation-Only Audio Social Network Is the Hot New App in Tech Circles (Bloomberg)
Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a social app built around talk, not text (TechCrunch)
X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks (The Verge)
ByteDance Profit Jumps 60%, Taking It Past Archrival Tencent (Bloomberg)
How WhatsApp became the world’s default communication app
X’s ‘complimentary’ Premium push gives people blue checks they didn’t ask for (The Verge)

March

Elon Musk’s X Is Testing ‘Adult Content’ Groups for Users (Bloomberg)
Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close (CNBC)
Reddit options launch draws bulls, as shares soar (Reuters)
Meta’s new opt-out setting limits visibility of politics on Instagram and Threads (The Verge)
Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (NBCNews)
Threads’ fediverse beta opens to share your posts on Mastodon, too (The Verge)
One Big Reason Gen Z Is Still on Facebook: To Save Money (NYTimes)
Exclusive: Tiktok is working on a new Photo Sharing platform to compete with Instagram (The SpAndroid)
TikTok’s growth rate has collapsed. ‘Life’ may be getting in the way for its younger users. (Business Insider)
Instagram now lets you edit DMs up to 15 mins after sending them (TechCrunch)

February

Meta’s Zuckerberg Seeks Out of Lawsuits Blaming Him for Instagram Addiction (Bloomberg)
Bluesky opens up federation, letting anyone run their own server (TechCrunch)
In battle with X, Threads gets trending topics where politics will be allowed (TechCrunch)
Meta turns its back on politics again, angering some news creators (Washington Post)
Bluesky Opens Up (TechDirt)
It’s Snap versus the world (The Verge)
The scariest sound on TikTok (The Verge)
Americans’ Social Media Use (Pew Research Center)

January

Universal Music Group Warns It Will Pull Songs From TikTok After Deal Expiration (Variety)
X Halts Taylor Swift Searches After Explicit AI Images Spread (WSJ)
Instagram co-founders’ news aggregation startup Artifact to shut down (TechCrunch)
Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees (The Verge)
X removes support for NFT profile pictures (TechCrunch)
Instagram and Facebook Will Stop Treating Teens Like Adults (WSJ)
Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit (Gizmodo)
Telegram rolls out revamped voice and video calls, new delete animation on Android (9to5Google)

2023

December

Apple’s Newest Headache: An App That Upended Its Control Over Messaging (NYTimes)
ByteDance’s Sales Break $110 Billion to Pass Tencent This Year (ByteDance)
TikTok rolls out an enhanced app experience for tablets and foldables (TickTok)
Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse (The Verge)
Meta starts testing Threads integration with ActivityPub (TechCrunch)
Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe (The Verge)
Musk’s X 2023 Ad Sales Projected to Slump to About $2.5 Billion (Bloomberg)
BeReal adds private groups and Live Photo-like features; Pew estimates 13% of US teens use app (TechCrunch)
Instagram and Facebook Messenger chats are being disconnected this month (9to5Google)

November

October

X Says It Is Worth $19 Billion, Down From $44 Billion Last Year (NYTimes)
Meta to Offer Ad-Free Facebook, Instagram Subscriptions in Europe (Bloomberg)
Zuckerberg says Threads has almost 100 million monthly users (The Verge)
X is officially rolling out audio and video calls (The Verge)
Tinder now lets mom pick your next date (The Verge)
WhatsApp will soon let you stay logged in to two accounts at once (The Verge)
X will start charging new users in two countries $1 per year (The Verge)
Social Media Users Accuse Facebook and Instagram of Suppressing Pro-Palestinian Posts (NYTimes)
Influencers and CEOs take their brands to LinkedIn (FT)
Linda Yaccarino responds to EU: 700 Community Notes, 5K+ images shared on Israel-Hamas war, ‘thousands’ of pieces of content removed (TechCrunch)
Instagram head says Threads is ‘not going to amplify news on the platform’ (TechCrunch)
Social media scams are costing Americans more than ever (TechRadar)
Elon Musk’s X Cut Disinformation-Fighting Tool Ahead of Israel-Hamas Conflict (The Information)
Elon Musk Starts Stripping Headlines From Links Shared to X (The Wrap)
Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook (WSJ)
TikTok Confirms It Is Testing an Ad-Free Subscription Tier (Variety)
Instagram Looks for Ways to Revive Interest in Threads (The Information)
The synthetic social network is coming (Platformer)

September

WhatsApp appears to be about to launch its long-overdue iPad app (The Verge)
Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (Washington Post)
TikTok Popularizes Products. Can It Sell Them, Too? (NYTimes)
Elon Musk to sue ADL for accusing him, X of antisemitism (TechCrunch)

August

Threads on the web widely rolling out (9to5Google)
Sorry, But LinkedIn Is Cool Now (Bloomberg)
X is planning to hide headlines from news links for ‘improved aesthetics’ (TechCrunch)
Twitter Deletes All User Photos And Links From 2011-2014 (Forbes)
Threads gets retweets — sorry, reposts — in the reverse-chronological feed (The Verge)
TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service (The Verge)
Elon Musk’s X is throttling traffic to websites he dislikes (The Washington Post)
Scoop: X shuts down $100M promoted accounts ad business (Axios)
You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon (The Verge)
Threads user count falls to new lows, highlighting retention challenges (CNN)
X, formerly Twitter, now lets paid users hide their checkmarks (TechCrunch)
TweetDeck is now called ‘XPro’ (9to5Google)

July

Meta plans retention ‘hooks’ for Threads as more than half of users leave app (Reuters)
Meta’s Threads app is rolling out a Following feed (TechCrunch)
Musk Explains Why He’s Axing Twitter Name, Iconic Bird Logo (Bloomberg)
TikTok is adding support for text posts (TechCrunch)
Twitter is being rebranded as X (The Verge)
Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’ (TechCrunch)
Reddit takes over one of the biggest protesting subreddits (The Verge)
Threads Is Already Losing Its Allure for Users, Adding Urgency for New Features (WSJ)
The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’ (TechCrunch)
Five reasons Threads could still go the distance (Platformer)
Twitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators (TechCrunch)
Meta confirms it is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN (TechCrunch)
Tumblr says it’s going to ‘fix’ its ‘core experience’ to appeal to new users (The Verge)
Snap’s Push to Tempt Creators Seems to Be Working (WSJ)
Instagram’s Threads app reaches 100 million users within just five days (TechCrunch)
Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App, Raising Twitter’s Ire (NYTimes)
Zuck’s Threads halo (Axios)
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads (Semafor)
Meta launches Instagram Threads in a direct challenge to Twitter (CNBC)
Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says (TechCrunch)
Instagram Threads works, but it’s sterile, dull and worst of all – it’s still run by Mark Zuckerberg (iNews)
Meta unspools Threads (Platformer)
So where are we all supposed to go now? (The Verge)
Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly went live on the web (The Verge)
The Reddit app-pocalyse is here: Apollo, Sync, and BaconReader go dark (The Verge)
The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so (The Verge)

June

Reddit says it won’t force subreddits back open (but will it?) (The Verge)
Reddit CEO slams protest leaders, saying he’ll change rules that favor ‘landed gentry’ (NCBNews)
Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout ‘will pass’ (The Verge)
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts (The Verge)
Reddit goes dark (Platformer)
Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks (The Verge)
This is what Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor looks like (The Verge)
Twitch walks back controversial ad rules policy (The Verge)
WhatsApp’s new Channels feature brings social media to your messaging app (The Verge)
Twitter’s head of trust and safety says she has resigned (Reuters)
Instagram tests new user control for recommended posts, transparency tool for creators (TechCrunch)

May

WhatsApp beta for Android 2.23.11.15: what’s new? (WABetaInfo)
Twitter glitches plague Ron DeSantis’ much-hyped presidential announcement with Elon Musk (CNBC)
Verified Twitter Accounts Spread AI-Generated Hoax of Pentagon Explosion (Motherboard)
This Is Catfishing on an Industrial Scale (Wired)
Cheesier, Saucier, and Drowning in Caviar; How TikTok took over the menu.
Twitter makes its first acquisition with a recruiting startup (Axios)
Elon Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter (TechCrunch)
Linda Yaccarino Leaves NBCUniversal Amid Talks to Become Twitter CEO (WSJ)
Discord’s username change is causing discord (The Verge)
Twitter restores free API access for emergency, weather and transportation alerts (Engadget)
Bluesky showed everyone’s ass (The Verge)
It’s getting easier to make an account on Mastodon (The Verge)
WordPress drops Twitter social sharing due to API price hike (Mashable)
BeReal’s latest feature is a curated timeline of high-profile users (Engadget)

April

New York City Subway Ends Twitter Service Alerts After Musk Raises Price (Bloomberg)
Reddit is testing Discord-like channels for community chat (TechCrunch)
Once-Hot Chat Startup Clubhouse Is Cutting Half of Staff (Bloomberg)
Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Sees First Sales Increase in Nearly a Year (WSJ)
Meta beats revenue expectations, remains committed to metaverse (TechCrunch)
Elon Caves, Gives Blue Checks Back to Twitter’s Biggest Celebs (Daily Beast)
Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark (TechCrunch)
Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform (Mashable)
Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Microsoft After it Drops Twitter From Ad Platform (PCMag)
Meta has started its latest round of layoffs, focusing on technical employees (CNBC)
Instagram takes on Linktree and others with support for up to 5 ‘links in bio’ (TechCrunch)
Bluesky’s CEO wants to build a Musk-proof, decentralized version of Twitter (The Verge)
Elon Musk just shut down automation for important public safety account
Is Twitter finally dying? (Vox)
Meta Tries to Lure Advertisers With Reels Discounts, AI Tools (The Information)
Twitter Blue’s new 10,000 character limit turns tweets into essays (The Verge)
LinkedIn rolls out ways to verify your identity and employment, without a price tag (TechCrunch)
LinkedIn Verification Now Lets You Verify Your Job and Account (Wired)
Twitter Inc. has been merged with X Corp. and “no longer exists,” Elon Musk’s company says in a court filing. (Slate)
Reddit Moderators Brace for a ChatGPT Spam Apocalypse (VICE)
NPR to Suspend Twitter Use After ‘Government-Funded’ Label (NYTimes)
Twitter stops throttling tweets with Substack links (Engadget)
Elon Musk Denies Substack Links Are Blocked On Twitter, A Claim That’s Very Misleading (Forbes)
Twitter now disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links (The Verge)
Substack’s new short-form ‘Notes’ feed looks a lot like Twitter (TechCrunch)
Twitter’s new dog icon is sending dogecoin — sigh — to the moon (TechCrunch)
Twitter had a very messy weekend (The Verge)
Twitter’s blue check mark was loved and loathed. Now it’s pay for play. (Washington Post)

March

February

Twitter Blue head Esther Crawford is out at Twitter (The Verge)
Facebook and Instagram are testing selling you blue checks for $12 a month (The Verge)
Official: Twitter will now charge for SMS two-factor authentication (The Verge)
TikTok is launching a $500,000 live trivia contest (The Verge)
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down (Vox)
Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first (Platformer)
Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now (The Verge)
Twitter delays new paid API launch by ‘a few more days’ (AppleInsider)
TikTok Turns to New Tactics to Spur Growth as Boom Times End (The Information)
Now Twitter Blue subscribers can write 4,000-character tweets (The Verge)
Watch out, TweetDeck users—Elon Musk is about to ruin your Twitter experience (TechRadar)
Lazy Reporters Claiming Fediverse Is ‘Slumping,’ Despite Massive Increase In Usage (TechDirt)
Musk’s Twitter Has Just 180,000 U.S. Subscribers, Two Months After Launch (The Information)
The Mastodon Bump Is Now a Slump (Wired)
Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a free write-only API to bots providing ‘good’ content (TechCrunch)
Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Musk’s latest monetization push (TechCrunch)
Instagram’s co-founders are mounting a comeback (Platformer)

January

Twitter Makes First Interest Payment on Musk Buyout Debt (Bloomberg)
The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok (Wired)
Meta Pays BuzzFeed Millions to Generate Creator Content for Facebook and Instagram (WSJ)
We tried to run a social media site and it was awful (FT)
Twitter for web will now stay on your preferred timeline (The Verge)
TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral (Forbes)
Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients (Engadget)
Instagram’s new ‘Quiet Mode’ helps you take a break from the app (TechCrunch)
Twitter Manager: Daily Revenue Has Dropped 40%, 500 Top Advertisers Have Left (The Information)
Twitter Said to Consider Selling User Names to Boost Revenue (NYTimes)
Twitter defaults to a For You page now, just like TikTok (The Verge)

2022

December

How TikTok Became a Diplomatic Crisis (NYTimes)
TikTok’s new feature will tell you why a particular video appeared in your For You feed (TechCrunch)
More than two million users have flocked to Mastodon since Elon Musk took over Twitter (The Verge)
Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors (The Verge)
Facebook’s Meta Will Devote 20% of Costs to Metaverse Next Year (Bloomberg)
Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account and bans links to Mastodon servers (TechCrunch)
Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company (NBCNews)
Twitter Suspends the Accounts Tracking Musk’s Jet and The Man Behind It (Bloomberg)
Twitter Suspends Over 25 Accounts That Track Billionaires’ Private Planes (NYTimes)
Musk Shakes Up Twitter’s Legal Team as He Looks to Cut More Costs (NYTimes)
Instagram Challenges BeReal and Adds Notes Short-Message Feature (WSJ)
Elon says Twitter will remove all legacy verifications ‘in a few months’ (TechCrunch)
Twitter Blue to Relaunch Monday, With Blue Check Mark, Higher iOS Price, Company Says (CNET)
We Couldn’t Have Made It Through This Year Without the Saluting Emoji (Rolling Stone)
Twitter’s Rivals Try to Capitalize on Musk-Induced Chaos (NYTimes)
Kanye West isn’t buying Parler after all (TechCrunch)

November

Elon Musk Claims Apple Has ‘Mostly Stopped’ Offering Ads on Twitter and Is Making Moderation Demands (MacRumors)
Twitter’s $5bn-a-year business hit as Elon Musk clashes with advertisers (FT)
Twitter grapples with Chinese spam obscuring news of protests (Washington Post)
Advertisers are dropping Twitter. Musk can’t afford to lose any more. (Washington Post)
Elon Musk says Twitter is done with layoffs and ready to hire again (The Verge)
Twitter’s Broken Its Copyright Strike System, Users Are Uploading Full Movies (Forbes)
Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter (The Verge)
Tweet thread on why @peterclowes left Twitter (Twitter)
End of an Era: Facebook Takes Sexuality, Religion, Address, and Politics Off of Your Profile (Gizmodo)
Tweet thread from @MosquitoCapital on the many ways Twitter could break (Twitter)
Musk issues ultimatum to staff: Commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or take severance (Washington Post)
Musk Publicly Punishes Twitter Engineers Who Call Him Out Online (Bloomberg)
Twitter reportedly cut thousands of contractors without warning (The Verge)
Twitter alternative: how Mastodon is designed to be “antiviral”
Unfollow? Block? And who gets custody of the WhatsApp groups? How to break up in the digital age (The Guardian)
Twitter begins to roll out, then kills, grey checkmarks for high-profile accounts (TechCrunch)
TikTok slashes global revenue targets by at least $2bn (FT)
Twitter’s solution for ruining verification is another check mark (The Verge)
Musk discusses putting all of Twitter behind a paywall (Platformer)
Elon Musk Appears To Threaten Advertisers Wary Of His Twitter Takeover (HuffingtonPost)
Elon Musk’s Twitter layoffs are starting (The Verge)
Substack targets Twitter with launch of discussions feature, Substack Chat (TechCrunch)
WhatsApp officially launches its new discussion group feature, Communities (TechCrunch)
Elon Musk Aims to Start Charging for Twitter Verification Next Week (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk to charge verified Twitter users to give ‘power to the people’ (SiliconRepublic)
Elon Musk’s Twitter is working on paid-video feature with ‘high’ risk (Washington Post)
Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit sex (The Verge)
Scoop: Musk team working to reboot Vine this year (Axios)
Jack Dorsey just saved Elon Musk about $1 billion by rolling over his shares of Twitter into a stake in the new private company (Insider)

October

Elon Musk wastes no time changing Twitter (The Verge)
Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification (The Verge)
How Twitter Will Change as a Private Company (NYTimes)
The Try Guys and the Prison of Online Fame (NYTimes)
Elon Musk Is In Twitter’s Office and Will Address Staff Friday (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk, on Eve of Twitter Deal Close, Promises Advertisers It Won’t Become a ‘Free-for-All Hellscape’ (Variety)
Twitter Asks: Where Have All the Tweeters Gone? (Gizmodo)
First on CNN: LinkedIn knows there are fake accounts on its site. Now it wants to help users spot them (CNN Business)
Meta shareholder writes critical open letter saying company needs to slash headcount and stop spending so much money on ‘metaverse’ (CNBC)
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Debt to Be Held by Banks Amid Turbulent Markets (WSJ)
Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (Washington Post)
Snap plunges more than 25% on third-quarter revenue miss (CNBC)
The Hottest App Right Now? One Where Teens Have to Say Nice Things About Each Other (WSJ)
Jack Dorsey-Founded Bluesky Unveils Roadmap for Decentralized Social Networks (Decrypt)
Kanye West is buying ‘free speech platform’ Parler (The Verge)
Kanye West to buy social media app Parler (The Verge)
The Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial is on hold until October 28th (The Verge)
Elon Musk’s deposition delayed as he wrangles with Twitter over deal (FT)
Musk Revives $44 Billion Twitter Bid, Aiming to Avoid Trial (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk says Twitter will eventually be part of ‘X, the everything app’ (MarketWatch)
Musk offers to proceed with Twitter deal (Axios)
Lawyers Lose Out on Millions in Twitter-Musk Legal Fees (Bloomberg)

September

Meta to Cut Headcount for First Time, Slash Budgets Across Teams (Bloomberg)
Jack Dorsey tried to get Elon Musk on Twitter’s board but directors were too ‘risk averse,’ texts reveal (CNBC)
Elon Musk’s Text Exchanges Show Twitter Deal Going Off The Rails (Big Technology)
How Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Parag Agrawal cratered the Twitter deal, in texts (The Verge)
Twitter Is in This Mess Because Jack Dorsey Was Too Busy Being a Bitcoin Influencer (Bloomberg)
The OG App promised an ad-free Instagram feed then got pulled from App Store (TechCrunch)
Twitter says Elon Musk’s own data scientists did not back up bots claims (FT)
Meta makes it easier to switch between Facebook and Instagram accounts (CNBC)
Instagram’s finally working on protecting users from unsolicited nude photos (The Verge)
Meta Quietly Reduces Staff in Cost-Cutting Push (WSJ)
TikTok’s BeReal clone app is gaining traction outside the US (The Verge)
TikTok just launched a BeReal clone called TikTok Now (TechCrunch)
Twitter starts rolling out podcasts to Blue subscribers (Engadget)
TikTok’s Secret To Explosive Growth? ‘Billions And Billions Of Dollars’ Says Snap CEO Evan Spiegel (Forbes)
Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits (The Atlantic)
Meta Connect Is A One-Day Virtual Event On October 11th (UploadVR)
Twitter starts testing an edit button, but you have to pay for it (The Verge)

August

Snap plans to lay off 20 percent of employees (The Verge)
Twitter is launching its ‘Close Friends’ feature Circle globally (TechCrunch)
HOW TWITTER’S CHILD PORN PROBLEM RUINED ITS PLANS FOR AN ONLYFANS COMPETITOR (The Verge)
Snapchat brings ‘Dual Camera’ recording to in-app camera (Engadget)
TikTok, Hospitals And Tutoring Apps: The Many Tentacles Of Chinese Tech Giant ByteDance (Forbes)
Instagram’s next feature might be a copy of BeReal (Engadget)
Woman Pictured In The Viral ‘Girl Explaining’ Meme Explains The Origins And Her Reaction To Sudden Internet Fame
Does Mark Zuckerberg Not Understand How Bad His Metaverse Looks? (Forbes)
Snapchat+ Tops 1 Million Paying Customers, Adds Four New Features (Variety)
LinkedIn rolls out new tools to give creators more ways to share visual content (TechCrunch)
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022 (PEW Research Center)
WhatsApp’s new update makes it easier to avoid your friends (The Verge)
WhatsApp now lets users delete messages up to two days after they were sent (9to5Mac)
Twitter slams Elon Musk’s response to its lawsuit (Axios)
Twitter to revamp Spaces, tests themed stations and a daily digest (TechCrunch)
Twitter is probing Elon Musk’s social circle in broad legal requests (Washington Post)
Why dangerous content thrives on Facebook and TikTok in Kenya (Washington Post)

July

Instagram walks back its changes (Platformer)
TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants (The New Yorker)
Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Reports First Ever Revenue Drop (WSJ)
Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian tell Instagram to ‘stop trying to be TikTok,’ which could spell major trouble for the platform (Insider)
Creators on Facebook can now earn money through videos that use licensed music (TechCrunch)
Twitter misses earnings expectations, partially blames revenue drop on Elon Musk takeover bid (CNBC)
Snap shares dive 35% following poor earnings report (CNBC)
Meta’s next big bet: The ‘metaversity’
Facebook doubles down on algorithms in the main feed (The Verge)
Fad or frenzy, BeReal is having a real moment right now (FastCompany)
Why BeReal is breaking out (Platformer)
Snap launches Snapchat for Web to bring the app’s core features to desktop (TechCrunch)
Twitter is testing custom timelines, and first one is about The Bachelorette (TechCrunch)
Google exec suggests Instagram and TikTok are eating into Google’s core products, Search and Maps (TechCrunch)
As Elon Musk Walks, Twitter Workers Say No One’s in Charge (Wired)
Twitter starts testing new CoTweets feature that lets two accounts co-author a tweet (The Verge)
The Metaverse in 2040

June

The Accidental Media Critics of YouTube (NYTimes)
Elon Musk Has Twitter’s Data, but Getting Answers on Spam Accounts May Be Tougher (WSJ)
TikTok Turns On the Money Machine (Bloomberg)
Instagram Tests Child Age Verification, but Falls Short of Full ID Checks (WSJ)
Twitter to expand into long-form content with upcoming Twitter Notes feature (TechCrunch)
Elon Musk Tells Staff Twitter Should Allow ‘Pretty Outrageous’ Tweets (Bloomberg)
Snap is working on a paid subscription called Snapchat Plus (The Verge)
YouTube Says It Is Gaining on TikTok in Short-Video Race (WSJ)
FACEBOOK IS CHANGING ITS ALGORITHM TO TAKE ON TIKTOK, LEAKED MEMO REVEALS (The Verge)
YouTube’s new corrections feature lets creators fix the record more easily (The Verge)
In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data (Washington Post)
TikTok’s new Bitmoji-like Avatars feature lets you record videos as an animated version of yourself (TechCrunch)
Twitter is building a tool for keyword alerts, in case you need more Twitter notifications (The Verge)
Facebook parent Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down (CNBC)
Sandberg’s Advertising Empire Leaves a Complicated Legacy (Bloomberg)
Javier Olivan, who’s replacing Sheryl Sandberg at Meta, built his career on international expansion (CNBC)
Twitter shutting down TweetDeck for Mac on July 1, here are alternatives to the web (9to5Mac)
TikTok is testing a ‘clear mode’ for a distraction-free scrolling experience (TechCrunch)

May

April

Twitter reports user bump, revenue miss for Q1, days after accepting Musk’s takeover bid (CNBC)
Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight (The Verge)
Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s buyout deal (CNBC)
Elon Musk buys Twitter (Platformer)
From punchline to deal in under 2 weeks: how Elon Musk won his Twitter prize (FT)
Twitter Eyes Deal With Musk as Soon as Monday (Bloomberg)
Analysis: Musk tears up buyout playbook with $46.5 billion Twitter financing (Reuters)
Twitter Has a Poison Pill Now (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk Says He Has Commitments for $46.5 Billion in Financing for Twitter Deal (WSJ)
Elon Musk lays out funding for ambitious Twitter takeover (The Verge)
Twitter’s in-development Edit button offers hints as to how the feature could work (TechCrunch)
Apollo Global Considers Participating in a Bid for Twitter (WSJ)
Twitter Is Weighing a Poison Pill Defense to Thwart Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid (Bloomberg)
Twitter Board Expected To Fight Musk Offer (The Information)
Musk Needs ‘Massive Loan’ or Big Tesla Sale to Buy Twitter (Bloomberg)
Gen Z’s new favorite app (Axios)
TikTok Ad Revenue Set To Triple in 2022 (The Information)
Elon Musk to address Twitter staff after internal outcry (Washington Post)
Twitter test lets you ‘unmention’ yourself in tweets (Engadget)
Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nobs’ to ‘le dollar bean’ (Washington Post)
Facebook won’t hold its F8 developer conference this year after pivoting to Meta (The Verge)
Twitter is adding an edit button (The Verge)
Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors, teases ‘significant improvements’ (CNBC)
Elon Musk Bought Some Twitter (Bloomberg)
Internet communities are battling over pixels (The Washington Post)
Elon Musk Takes 9.2% Stake in Twitter After Hinting at Shake-Up (Bloomberg)

March

Google Search’s new highly cited label helps you get to the source of a story (The Verge)
Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok (Washington Post)
Messenger gets new shortcuts that let you send silent replies (The Verge)
Twitter’s DM search will finally actually help you find conversations (The Verge)
Instagram rolls out new safety tools for parents (TechCrunch)
Mark Zuckerberg confirms NFTs are coming to Instagram (Engadget)
Twitter rolls back its decision to force you into the out-of-order timeline (The Verge)
Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed (The Verge)
Tinder rolls out in-app access to background checks, powered by nonprofit Garbo (TechCrunch)
Meta Releases New ‘Widely Viewed Content’ Report for Facebook, Which Continues to be a Baffling Overview (SocialMediaToday)

February

Facebook, Twitter remove disinformation accounts targeting Ukrainians (NBCNews)
TikTok is taking aim at YouTube with longer 10-minute video uploads (AndroidCentral)
Social media platforms on the defensive as Russian-based disinformation about Ukraine spreads (Politico)
Trump’s Truth Social’s disastrous launch raises doubts about its long-term viability (Washington Post)
Meta’s social VR platform Horizon hits 300,000 users (The Verge)
If Russia Invades Ukraine, TikTok Will See It Up Close (Wired)
Meta’s Clegg Promoted as Zuckerberg Steps Back From Policy (Bloomberg)
Move fast, rename things: Facebook tries to boost morale with new slogans (Washington Post)
Facebook rebrands News Feed after more than 15 years (The Verge)
Instagram now lets you send private Story likes (Engadget)
How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook (Wired)
Why Static Video Memes Are All Over Instagram (The Information)
Facebook market cap falls below $600 billion — which could actually help it dodge new antitrust scrutiny (CNBC)
Peter Thiel to Exit Meta’s Board to Support Trump-Aligned Candidates (NYTimes)
Tinder will stop charging older users more for premium features (Engadget)
Twitter’s direct DM test is a terrible idea (The Verge)
Snap shares rocket as much as 62% on first-ever quarterly net profit (CNBC)
Facebook and Google’s Ad Addiction Can’t Last Forever (Bloomberg Opinion)

January

Facebook’s metaverse efforts are already generating close to $3 billion a year in revenue, analysts estimate. (Insider)
Anti-Work Subreddit Suddenly Goes Private to Clean Up After ‘Brigading’ (Bloomberg)
Anti-work subreddit implodes after rough Fox News interview (Mashable)
YouTube Shorts Tops 5 Trillion Views to Date, Platform to Test Shopping and Branded Content for TikTok-Style Videos (Variety)
Twitter’s new Flock feature takes aim at Instagram Close Friends (Input)
How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete (The New Yorker)
Instagram launches early test of creator subscriptions in the US (TechCrunch)
Apple Removes Wordle Apps Fueled by Confused Users (Bloomberg)
Instagram, still benefiting from TikTok’s ban in India, again became the top app by downloads in Q4 (TechCrunch)
The Wordle clones have disappeared from the App Store (The Verge)
Locket, an app for sharing photos to friends’ homescreens, hits the top of the App Store (TechCrunch)
Instagram testing three new feed sorting choices, including chronological options (9to5Mac)

2021

December

How Discord, Born From an Obscure Game, Became a Social Hub for Young People (NYTimes)
In 2021, the Internet went for TikTok, space and beyond (CloudFlare Blog)
Strange, horny game ads are flooding social media. I accidentally became obsessed (The Guardian)
Twitter adds auto captions feature to make videos more accessible (TechCrunch)
Her Instagram Handle Was ‘Metaverse.’ Last Month, It Vanished. (NYTimes)
HOW AN EXCEL TIKTOKER MANIFESTED HER WAY TO MAKING SIX FIGURES A DAY (The Verge)
Instagram Chief and Lawmakers Clash Over App’s Real World Harms (Bloomberg)
Instagram will bring back a chronological feed in 2022 (Engadget)
Facebook’s new website lets fans buy ‘Stars’ without paying the app stores’ commissions (TechCrunch)
Twitter’s New CEO Agrawal Got Early Nod From Dorsey a Year Ago (Bloomberg)
Why Instagram Asks Users to Create Second Accounts (WSJ)
TikTok adds creator monetization features, including tips and video gifts (TechCrunch)
Dorsey’s Twitter Departure Hints at Tech Moguls’ Restlessness (NYTimes)

November

Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New C.E.O.? (NYTimes)
Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will replace Jack Dorsey as CEO (CNBC)
Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal replaces Jack Dorsey as CEO (The Verge)
Twitter partners with S&P 500 on stock index that crowdsources public opinion (CNET)
TWITTER MAKES BIG CHANGES FOR DEVS AS IT EYES DECENTRALIZED FUTURE (The Verge)
YouTube gives dislikes the thumbs-down, hides public counts (The Verge)
Meta plans to remove thousands of sensitive ad-targeting categories. (NYTimes)
Twitter will now let you pay to undo tweets and read ad-free news in the US (The Verge)
Instagram brings back Twitter Card preview support for posts (TechCrunch)
Facebook skirts Apple’s App Store fees with custom subscription links for creators (The Verge)
Snap, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube lose nearly $10bn after iPhone privacy changes (FT)

October

Why Apple’s Privacy Changes Hurt Snap and Facebook but Benefited Google (WSJ)
Why Your Group Chat Could Be Worth Millions (Intelligencer)
Facebook unveils Horizon Home social VR, Messenger VR calls, and fitness VR on road to metaverse (VentureBeat)
Facebook delivers light Q4 revenue guidance, mixed Q3 results (ZDNet)
Facebook says it’s refocusing company on ‘serving young adults’ (The Verge)
Here are all the Facebook Papers stories (Protocol)
The case against Mark Zuckerberg: Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety (Washington Post)
Snap plummets 22% after missing on revenue expectations (CNBC)
Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name (The Verge)
Microsoft Folds LinkedIn Social-Media Service in China (WSJ)
Twitter’s tool for removing unwanted followers arrives for web users (Engadget)
Facebook whistleblower to brief Facebook Oversight Board, U.K. parliament (Axios)
A second Facebook whistleblower says she’s willing to testify before Congress and that she’s shared documents with a US law agency (Insider)
Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less (Slate)
How WhatsApp Swallowed Half The World (Gizmodo)
Facebook Slows New Products for ‘Reputational Reviews’ (WSJ)
Telegram says it added 70M users during day of Facebook and WhatsApp outage (TechCrunch)
Snapchat Adding New Creator Monetization Programs, Including Spotlight Challenges (Variety)
Gone in Minutes, Out for Hours: Outage Shakes Facebook (NYTimes)
The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It (WSJ)
Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew (NYTimes)
Facebook’s Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity (TechDirt)

September

Imgur has been bought by the owner of Kik, Genius, and WorldStarHipHop (The Verge)
Facebook’s Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show (WSJ)
Facebook will publish some of its research on teens and Instagram (Engadget)
Pausing “Instagram Kids” and Building Parental Supervision Tools (Instagram Blog)
Facebook is ‘pausing’ work on Instagram kids app after widespread criticism (The Verge)
Facebook Rebuts Report Calling Instagram ‘Toxic’ for Teen Girls (Bloomberg)
Facebook Chief Technology Officer Schroepfer to Step Down (Bloomberg)
No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image (NYTimes)
The Oversight Board wants Facebook to explain its controversial rules for VIPs (Engadget)
Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show. (WSJ)
How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg’s Bid to Get America Vaccinated (WSJ)
Chat App Discord Is Worth $15 Billion After New Funding (Bloomberg)
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show (WSJ)
Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. (WSJ)
FACEBOOK ON YOUR FACE (The Verge)
Twitter wants you to tweet to interest-based communities, not just followers (TechCrunch)
TikTok reportedly overtakes YouTube in US average watch time (The Verge)
Twitter launches Super Follows on iOS (The Verge)
Twitter is testing a new anti-abuse feature called ‘Safety Mode’ (TechCrunch)
Twitter Plans New Privacy Tools to Get More People Tweeting (Bloomberg)
LinkedIn gives up on Stories (The Verge)

August

Scoop: Facebook’s new moves to lower News Feed’s political volume (Axios)
Twitter starts launching Ticketed Spaces for some iOS users (The Verge)
Messenger celebrates its 10th anniversary with new features and a plan to become the ‘connective tissue’ for real-time experiences (TechCrunch)
Instagram is retiring the swipe up (The Verge)
Facebook Retools Messaging Again by Adding Calling to Main App (Bloomberg)
Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March (The Washington Post)
Post-Culture Review Twitter Thread (Twitter)
INSIDE FACEBOOK’S METAVERSE FOR WORK (The Verge)
Facebook is sharing data to prove it’s not a political hellhole (Protocol)
Remember Yik Yak? Well, it’s back and still anonymous. (Mashable)
WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts (Motherboard)
Facebook ‘Proactively’ Removing Taliban Content, Executive Says (Bloomberg)
Tinder will make its ID Verification option available to all users (The Verge)
Twitter’s web redesign isn’t as accessible as it should be, experts say (TechCrunch)
TikTok to add more privacy protections for teenaged users, limit push notifications (TechCrunch)
WhatsApp will let you transfer your chat history between Android and iOS (Engadget)
The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea (Vice)
WhatsApp launches its ‘View Once’ disappearing photos and videos (The Verge)

July

June

Facebook announces Bulletin, its Substack newsletter competitor (The Verge)
A very brief history of every Google messaging app (The Verge)
Twitter is opening applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows (The Verge)
Tinder lets people add videos to their dating profiles (Engadget)
Facebook officially launches Live Audio Rooms and podcasts in the US (TechCrunch)
Facebook to begin testing ads inside Oculus virtual reality headsets (CNBC)
Podcasts start coming to Facebook next week (The Verge)
Is Facebook cornering the VR market? (Platformer)
TikTok Charges Up to $2 Million a Day for Top Advertising Spots (Bloomberg)
Facebook will show creators how much money Apple and Google take from them (The Verge)
Twitter may be close to launching Super Follows, as new research shows what it could look like (The Verge)
Facebook to end special treatment for politicians after Trump ban (The Verge)
Twitter launches its first subscription service (CNBC)
WhatsApp to Roll Out Multi-Device Support, Hints at Future iPad App (Mac Rumors)
Facebook opens its Messenger API for Instagram to all (TechCrunch)
Twitter teams with climate vet to launch local weather news service (Axios)

May

April

Facebook Revenue Grows 48% as Ad Prices Increase (The Information)
Facebook introduces a new miniplayer that streams Spotify within the Facebook app (TechCrunch)
Snap reports accelerating revenue growth, strong user numbers for first quarter (CNBC)
Instagram launches tools to filter out abusive DMs based on keywords and emojis, and to block people, even on new accounts (TechCrunch)
Facebook unveils suite of new audio products (Axios)
Clubhouse’s Monthly Downloads Plunged 72% Last Month (The Wrap)
Facebook plans to go after Clubhouse — and podcasts — with a suite of new audio products (Vox)
Clubhouse closes an undisclosed $4B valuation Series C round, as tech giants’ clones circle (TechCrunch)
Twitter Held Discussions for $4 Billion Takeover of Clubhouse (Bloomberg)
Facebook tests Hotline, a Q&A product that’s a mashup of Clubhouse and Instagram Live (TechCrunch)
Clubhouse Discusses Funding at About $4 Billion Value (Bloomberg)
Clubhouse’s new direct payments let you toss a coin to creators, and they get 100 percent (The Verge)
TikTok adds automatic captions to videos in accessibility push (The Verge)
Discord’s new Clubhouse-like feature, Stage Channels, is available now (The Verge)

March

Facebook Adds New ‘Most Recent’ Timeline to Switch to Chronological Posts (MacRumors)
LinkedIn confirms it’s working on a Clubhouse rival, too (TechCrunch)
Spotify is launching its own Clubhouse competitor (The Verge)
Spotify acquires Betty Labs, creator of live audio app Locker Room (Axios)
Microsoft CEO Hunts Anew for Creator Hub After TikTok Bid Fails (Bloomberg)
Twitter’s ‘unofficial mayor’ Chrissy Teigen quits platform after years of harassment (The Verge)
Facebook will bring back F8 on June 2 as a pared-back, single-day, virtual-only conference for developers (TechCrunch)
David Dobrik, Losing Sponsors and Fans, Steps Down From App He Co-founded (NYTimes)
Spark Capital decides to “sever all ties” with David Dobrik’s Dispo app weeks after leading deal (TechCrunch)
Facebook Is Building An Instagram For Kids Under The Age Of 13 (BuzzFeed News)
Twitter begins testing a way to watch YouTube videos from the home timeline on iOS (TechCrunch)
Telegram takes on Clubhouse with Voice Chat 2.0 (XDA Developers)
How a social app you’ve never heard of became a haven for Gen Z (Protocol)
YouTube Shorts arrives in the US to take on TikTok, but the beta is still half-baked (The Verge)
Clubhouse Tweet Thread (ShaanVP)
Facebook aims to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19 (CNET)
Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role in pushing the skepticism (Washington Post)
Clubhouse announces accelerator program for creators on its platform (The Verge)
TWITTER IS REINVENTING ITSELF (The Verge)
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation (MIT Technology Review)
Bilibili: How a Chinese site dedicated to anime subculture grew up with its Gen Z users to become a mainstream success (South China Morning Post)
Twitter plans to let anyone start hosting Twitter Spaces in April (The Verge)
TikTok adds new comment controls to discourage bullying (Engadget)
Here’s what Twitter’s rumored ‘undo send’ feature could look like (The Verge)
Who Really Writes Twitter’s ‘Trending’ Summaries (OneZero)
Instagram launches ‘Live Rooms’ for live broadcasts with up to four creators (TechCrunch)

February

Twitter announces paid Super Follows to let you charge for tweets (The Verge)
Twitter planning a feature to let you auto-block and mute abusive accounts (The Verge)
The Real Story of What Happened With News on Facebook in Australia (Facebook Newsroom)
Facebook got everything it wanted out of Australia by being willing to do what the other guy wouldn’t (Nieman Lab)
How social networks got competitive again (Casey Newton’s Platformer)
Facebook to reverse news ban on Australian sites, government to make amendments to media bargaining code (ABC.net.au)
Australia’s ABC News shot to the top of the App Store charts following Facebook’s news ban (The Verge)
The Bizarre Reaction To Facebook’s Decision To Get Out Of The News Business In Australia (TechDirt)
Facebook restricts users, publishers from sharing news content in Australia (AP)
Facebook calls Australia’s bluff (Platformer)
Retro photo app is winning buz
The bull case for Dispo (Justin Potts)
Facebook Meets Apple in Clash of the Tech Titans—‘We Need to Inflict Pain’ (WSJ)
Facebook Is Said to Be Building a Product to Compete With Clubhouse (NYTimes)
Reddit’s Valuation Doubles to $6 Billion After Funding Round (WSJ)
Mark Cuban is co-founding a podcast app where hosts can talk to fans live and monetize their conversations (The Verge)
Clubhouse is now blocked in China after a brief uncensored period (TechCrunch)
Twitter Considers Subscription Fee for Tweetdeck, Unique Content (Bloomberg)
An Interview with Eric Seufert about Apple, Facebook, and Mobile Advertising (Stratechery)
Chinese flock to freewheeling US chat app Clubhouse (Nikkei Asia)
Facebook starts rolling out Messenger on Oculus headsets (Engadget)
Facebook Knew Calls for Violence Plagued ‘Groups,’ Now Plans Overhaul (WSJ)
Elon Musk busts Clubhouse limit (TechCrunch)
Recording of Musk on Clubhouse (YouTube)

January

Facebook is said to be planning newsletter tools to court independent writers (NYTimes)
YouTube’s Spammy Sex Bots Make a Ton of Money (OneZero)
Mark Zuckerberg says Apple is now one of Facebook’s biggest competitors (CNBC)
Twitter acquiring newsletter publishing company Revue (Axios)
Twitter launches ‘Birdwatch,’ a forum to combat misinformation (NBC News)
Clubhouse announces plans for creator payments and raises new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (TechCrunch)
Big Revolution - Inside the Clubhouse (Big Revolution)
The Moderation War Is Coming to Spotify, Substack, and Clubhouse (OneZero)
Facebook refers Trump ban to independent Oversight Board for review (Axios)
Following Trump Ban, Facebook Tells Employees to Avoid Wearing Company-Branded Apparel (The Information)
San Francisco police are prepping for a pro-Trump rally at Twitter headquarters (TechCrunch)
Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill (NYTimes)
Twitter acquires social podcasting app Breaker, team to help build Twitter Spaces (TechCrunch)
Google and Snap in talks to invest in India’s ShareChat (TechCrunch)

2020

December

Google pilots a search feature that aggregates short-form videos from TikTok and Instagram (TechCrunch)
Tech Choices Dictate Teen Friendships During Pandemic (WSJ)
Biden @POTUS Account Reset to Zero With Trump Followers Out (Bloomberg)
Telegram, nearing 500 million users, to begin monetizing the app (TechCrunch)
The North Carolina Kid Who Cracked YouTube’s Secret Code (Bloomberg)
Twitter launches its voice-based ‘Spaces’ social networking feature into beta testing (TechCrunch)
Facebook Attacks Apple Software Changes in Newspaper Ads (Bloomberg)
Facebook Wades Into ‘Fortnite’ Maker’s Dispute With Apple (WSJ)
Facebook criticizes Apple as it welcomes Europe’s new tech rules (CNBC)
Social Strikes Back (A16Z)
Reddit Claims 52 Million Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms (WSJ)

November

Twitter to relaunch account verifications in early 2021, asks for feedback on policy (TechCrunch)
Roiled by Election, Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth (NYTimes)
OnlyFans Chief Talks Sports Ambitions and Role of Adult Content in Site (The Information)
Snapchat launches a TikTok-like feed called Spotlight, kick-started by paying creators (TechCrunch)
Facebook Ads Could Be Reaching Saturation Point (WSJ)
YouTube will run ads on some creator videos, but it won’t give them any of the revenue (The Verge)
Yubo could be the next big social app as it raises $47.5 million (TechCrunch)
Twitter rolls out Stories, aka ‘Fleets,’ to all users; will also test a Clubhouse rival (TechCrunch)
‘Awakened a sleeping giant’: Parler jumps to most popular app as conservatives rally support to leave Twitter and Facebook (Washington Examiner)
WhatsApp now lets you post ephemeral messages that disappear after 7 days (TechCrunch)
TikTok Parent ByteDance Seeks to Raise Cash at $180 Billion Valuation (Bloomberg)
What to Expect From Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on Election Day (NYTimes)

October

How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet (Protocol)
Republicans Accuse Zuckerberg and Dorsey of Censorship: Live Updates (NYTimes)
Face to Face, Tinder’s opt-in video chat feature, is now rolling out globally (TechCrunch)
Deleting Facebook Also Deletes Oculus Purchases And Account Information (UploadVR)
Facebook Prepares Measures for Possible Election Unrest (WSJ)
YouTube Is So Flooded With Political Ads It Can’t Place Them All (Bloomberg)
Snapchat doubles down on India with new original series, games (The Economic Times)
Snap stock rockets up after surprise earnings beat (CNBC)
Facebook’s and YouTube’s algorithms might soon be a bit less mysterious (Fast Company)
On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016 (NYTimes)
Why media formats (like Snapchat Stories and TikTok music videos) become hits? (Medium)
Facebook completely bans QAnon and labels it a ‘militarized social movement’ (The Verge)
Facebook will start surfacing some public group discussions in people’s News Feeds and search results (The Verge)
HOTorNOT shaped the social web as we know it (Mashable)
Inside Facebook’s quadruple play: How the company is finally melding its apps (Fast Company)

September

Facebook introduces cross-app communication between Messenger and Instagram, plus other features (TechCrunch)
TikTok and the Sorting Hat (Eugene’s original essay)
Pinterest officially launches new Story Pins format in beta (TechCrunch)
Facebook is cracking down on groups that give health advice and promote violence (CNBC)
Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for college students (The Verge)
Facebook will stop accepting new political ads a week before the US presidential election (The Verge)
Facebook Moves to Limit Election Chaos in November (NYTimes)
Facebook Could Block Sharing of News Stories in Australia (NYTimes)

August

The Anti-Facebook: 12 Years In, Facebook’s Cofounder Dustin Moskovitz’s Slow-Burn Second Act Asana Finally Has Its Moment (Forbes)
Facebook changes name of its annual VR event and its overall AR/VR organization (TechCrunch)
Why the Facebookening of Oculus VR is bad for users, devs, competition (Ars Technica)
Facebook Removes 790 QAnon Groups to Fight Conspiracy Theory (NYTimes)
Facebook restricts more than 10,000 QAnon and US militia groups (The Guardian)
You’ll need a Facebook account to use future Oculus headsets (The Verge)
Twitter launches new API as it tries to make amends with third-party developers (The Verge)
Facebook, Snap Held Talks to Buy TikTok Rival Dubsmash (The Information)
Twitter, TikTok Have Held Preliminary Talks About Possible Combination (WSJ)
Instagram Reels launches globally in over 50 countries, including US (TechCrunch)

July

Facebook Is Set to Finally Get the Rights to Show Music Videos (Bloomberg)
‘INSTAGRAM CAN HURT US’: MARK ZUCKERBERG EMAILS OUTLINE PLAN TO NEUTRALIZE COMPETITORS (The Verge)
TikTok says it will pay creators a total of $2 billion in the next 3 years (Digital Trends)
Facebook Offers Money to Reel In TikTok Creators (WSJ)
Want to buy a parrot? Please login via Facebook. (Rest Of World)
Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown (NBC News)
Disney Slashed Ad Spending on Facebook Amid Growing Boycott (WSJ)
The easiest way to start meditating is now in… Snapchat? (Mashable)
Some of Reddit’s Wildest Relationship Stories Are Lies. I’d Know – I Wrote Them (Motherboard)
Facebook to label posts about voting from presidential candidates (Axios)
Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor (NBC News)
DE-ESCALATING SOCIAL MEDIA (NickPunt.com)
Facebook Fails to Appease Organizers of Ad Boycott (NYTimes)
Facebook Decisions Were ‘Setbacks for Civil Rights,’ Audit Finds (NYTimes)
Twitter is working on a new subscription platform, hints job listing (The Verge)
Zuckerberg Tells Facebook Staff He Expects Advertisers to Return ‘Soon Enough’ (The Information)
Facebook is shutting down Lasso, its TikTok clone (TechCrunch)
Facebook frustrates advertisers as boycott over hate speech kicks off (Reuters)
Third of top brands likely to suspend social media spending, survey finds (FT)

June

Exclusive: Facebook changes algorithm to boost original reporting (Axios)
Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules (The Verge)
Exclusive: Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global, organizers say (Reuters)
The hard truth about the Facebook ad boycott: Nothing matters but Zuckerberg (CNN Business)
Verizon is pulling advertising from Facebook and Instagram (CNBC)
Reddit turns 15: The dramatic moments that shaped the internet’s front page (Mashable)
Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing (NYTimes)
TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally (NYTimes)
Google’s U.S. Ad Revenue Is Expected to Decline in 2020, eMarketer Says (WSJ)
Facebook Removes Trump Ads With Symbol Used By Nazis. Campaign Calls It An ‘Emoji’ (NPR)
Twitter starts rolling out audio tweets on iOS (The Verge)
Mark Zuckerberg: Historic Facebook campaign will boost voter registration, turnout and voices (USA Today)
TikTok owner ByteDance first-quarter revenue soared to around $5.6 billion (Reuters)
Instagram ‘will overtake Twitter as a news source’ (BBC News)
Twitter deletes China-linked accounts that spread false information about Hong Kong and Covid-19 (CNN Business)
Chris Cox is returning to Facebook as chief product officer (The Verge)
Zuckerberg Lieutenant Returns to Facebook, a Year After Departure (WSJ)
Reddit names Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel as Alexis Ohanian’s replacement (The Verge)
Zynn, the Hot New Video App, Is Full of Stolen Content (Wired)
INSIDE NEXTDOOR’S ‘KAREN PROBLEM’ (The Verge)
Kids now spend nearly as much time watching TikTok as YouTube in US, UK and Spain (TechCrunch)
Scientists funded by Zuckerberg sent him a letter calling Facebook’s practices ‘antithetical’ to his philanthropic mission (Washington Post)
Twitter has a record-breaking week as users looked for news of protests and COVID-19 (TechCrunch)
Charli D’Amelio is TikTok’s biggest star. She has no idea why. (Washington Post)
Early Facebook Employees Disavow Zuckerberg’s Stance on Trump Posts (NYTimes)
Snap will stop promoting Trump’s account after concluding his tweets incited violence (The Verge)
Zuckerberg Defends Hands-Off Approach to Trump’s Posts (NYTimes)
Facebook finally makes it way easier to trash your old posts (TechCrunch)
Twitter takes action against Rep. Matt Gaetz for glorifying violence (The Verge)
Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout to Protest Trump Posts (NYTimes)
Facebook staff angry with Zuckerberg for leaving up Trump’s ‘looting … shooting’ post (CNBC)

May

Scheduled tweets and tweet drafts are now available on Twitter’s website (Neowin)
The Rise of New Short-Form Video App Zynn Could Spell Trouble for TikTok (Social Media Today)
Zuckerberg knocks Twitter for fact-checking Trump, says private companies shouldn’t be ‘the arbiter of truth’ (Fox News)
Twitter labels Trump’s tweets with a fact check for the first time (Washington Post)
Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive (WSJ)
Twitter is testing a feature that limits who can reply to your tweets (TechCrunch)
Andreessen Horowitz Wins VC Sweepstakes To Back Clubhouse, Voice App Still In Beta, At $100 Million Valuation (Forbes)
Scoop: Facebook to buy Giphy for $400 million (Axios)
OnlyFans, Influencers, And The Politics Of Selling Nudes During A Pandemic (Elle.com)
Twitter launches labels, warnings on misleading COVID-19 information (Reuters)
How Facebook’s oversight board could rewrite the rules of the entire internet (Protocol)
Facebook Names the 20 People Who Can Overrule Mark Zuckerberg (Wired)
Reddit removes chat room feature after one day due to site-wide bug (The Verge)
You Have a TikTok Hit! Now, Quick — Change the Title (Rolling Stone)

April

Reddit adds chat rooms for subreddits (Engadget)
Facebook soars after reporting ‘stability’ in ad revenue after fall in March (CNBC)
Twitter Q1: sales up 3% to $808M as it swings to a loss on COVID-19, mDAUS hit record 166M (TechCrunch)
Google ditched tipping feature for donating money to sites (TechCrunch)
IN THE CORONAVIRUS ERA, THE FORCE IS STILL WITH JACK DORSEY (Vanity Fair)
Facebook removes some events calling for protests of stay-at-home orders (NBC News)
TikTok now lets parents set restrictions on their kids’ accounts (The Verge)
Houseparty Vies With Zoom to Be Homebound Chatters’ App of Choice (Bloomberg)
Everyone can now access their Instagram DMs on the web (The Verge)
Zuckerberg’s Jealousy Held Back Instagram and Drove Off Founders (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Twitter notifies users that it’s now sharing more data with advertisers (The Verge)
WhatsApp to impose new limit on forwarding to fight fake news (The Guardian)
Facebook debuts standalone Messenger app on Mac and PC (Engadget)
‘Content network effect’ makes TikTok tough to copy (TechCrunch)
YouTube Plans ‘Shorts’ to Rival TikTok (The Information)

March

Snapchat preempts clones, syndicates Stories to other apps (TechCrunch)
Everything Is So Fucked, You Might As Well Get A Facebook Portal (Buzzfeed News)
Facebook Is ‘Just Trying to Keep the Lights On’ as Traffic Soars in Pandemic (NYTimes)
The Coronavirus Revives Facebook as a News Powerhouse (NYTimes)
Instagram has a new way for people isolated by coronavirus to connect: sharing posts via video chat (CNBC)
Instagram prototypes Snapchat-style disappearing text messages (TechCrunch)
How Reddit’s coronavirus community became a destination (NBC News)
How TikTok Is Taking the Tunes out of Pop (HighSnobiety)
What worries Mark Zuckerberg (The Interface)
Twitter makes working from home mandatory for employees around the world in response to COVID-19 (TechCrunch)
Twitter thread from Will Strafach on Sensor Tower apps (Twitter)
How a ban on pro-Trump patterns unraveled the online knitting world (MIT Technology Review)
Twitter CEO Dorsey keeps his job after company strikes investment deal with Elliott Management, Silver Lake (CNBC)
Jack Dorsey is reconsidering Africa move amid coronavirus and activist investor threats (The Verge)
Twitter Is Finally Doing Stories (Buzzfeed)
Singer’s Elliott Seeks to Replace Twitter CEO Dorsey (Bloomberg)

February

A parody Twitter account hits a nerve with Silicon Valley VCs (Protocol)
Facebook will now pay you for your voice recordings (The Verge)
Twitter rolling out new ‘Continue thread’ option for connecting multiple tweets together (9to5Mac)
Twitter acquires Stories template maker Chroma Labs (TechCrunch)
Facebook prototypes tabbed News Feed with Most Recent & Seen (TechCrunch)
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Lost Notebook (Wired)
Facebook accuses telecoms groups of disinformation tactics (FT)
Twitter reports $1.01B in Q4 revenue with 152M monetizable daily active users (TechCrunch)
Instagram Brings In More Than a Quarter of Facebook Sales (Bloomberg)
Jeff Weiner Updates His LinkedIn Profile (Wired)
Mastercard chief speaks out against nationalism and Facebook (FT)

January

How Dubsmash revived itself as #2 to TikTok (TechCrunch)
Facebook plunges, wiping out more than $50 billion in market value (CNBC)
Facebook’s ‘Clear History’ Tool Doesn’t Clear Shit (Gizmodo)
As Virus Spreads, Anger Floods Chinese Social Media (NYTimes)
Product Hunt Has Released YourStack, A Social Network Where People Talk About Products (BuzzFeed News)
Facebook will now show you exactly how it stalks you — even when you’re not using Facebook (The Washington Post)
Vine reboot Byte officially launches (TechCrunch)
Match Group invests in Noonlight to power new safety features in Tinder and other dating apps (TechCrunch)
Instagram drops IGTV button, but only 1% downloaded the app (TechCrunch)
Facebook Backs Off Controversial Plan to Sell Ads in WhatsApp (WSJ)
Jack Dorsey Asks Elon Musk How to Fix Twitter (Bloomberg)
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey on edit button: ‘We’ll probably never do it’ (The Verge)
Why your favorite celebs are ditching Twitter for an app you’ve never heard of (Fast Company)
Twitter will put options to limit replies directly on the compose screen (The Verge)
Douyin, TikTok app in China, hits 400 million daily active users (TechCrunch)
Don’t Tilt Scales Against Trump, Facebook Executive Warns (NYTimes)
Facebook bans deepfakes, but new policy may not cover controversial Pelosi video (Washington Post)
Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory, the company behind its new Cameos feature, for $166M (TechCrunch)
Instagram User Growth in the US Will Drop to Single Digits For the First Time (eMarketer)

2019

December

Snapchat will launch Bitmoji TV, a personalized cartoon show (TechCrunch)
The 100 Memes That Defined The 2010s (Buzzfeed News)
Facebook will bar posts, ads that spread disinformation about the U.S. Census (Washington Post)
THE AGE OF INSTAGRAM FACE (New Yorker)
The Influencer and the Hit Man (OneZero)
“Link In Bio” is a slow knife (Anil Dash)
Hey @Jack Dorsey, decentralizing Twitter won’t solve hate speech problems (Digital Trends)
The Bluesky Thread (@jack)
YouTube says viewers are spending less time watching conspiracy videos. But many still do. (The Washington Post)
Instagram to collect ages in leap for youth safety, alcohol ads (Reuters)
Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019 (TechCrunch)
Subreddit That Hates on ‘Game of Thrones’ Is the Most Popular TV Subreddit of 2019 (The Wrap)
TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities (NetzPolitik.org)
TikTok prevented disabled users’ videos from showing up in feeds (The Verge)
Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle (NYTimes)

November

Facebook pays people to take surveys (Engadget)
Zuck talks to old white men (Bloomberg)
TikTok suspended a teen who posted a viral takedown of China disguised as a makeup tutorial (Business Insider)
Twitter rolls out its ‘Hide Replies’ feature to all users worldwide (TechCrunch)
TikTok surpasses 1.5 billion downloads — with almost 500M in India (TNW)
From Instagram to Candy Crush: These are the most important apps of the decade (CNET)
Instagram Stories launches TikTok clone Reels in Brazil (TechCrunch)
Facebook finally lets you banish nav bar tabs & red dots (TechCrunch)
Twitter Is Trying To Fix The Dunk And Ratio (BuzzFeed)
Twitter is rolling out Topics, a way to follow subjects automatically in the timeline (The Verge)

October

Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Thread (Twitter)
Zuckerberg defends politician ads that will be 0.5% of 2020 revenue (TechCrunch)
Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg (NYTimes)
Facebook shares rise on strong Q3, users up 2% to 2.45B (TechCrunch)
A Facebook content moderation vendor is quitting the business after two Verge investigations (The Verge)
Rupert Murdoch wanted Mark Zuckerberg to pay him for news stories — and now Facebook is going to do just that (Recode)
Inside R/Relationships, the Unbearably Human Corner of Reddit (The Atlantic)
Music Video Upstart ‘Triller’ Says It’s Taking On TikTok Amid $28 Million Series B (TubeFilter)
Twitter Q3 misses bi on revenues of $824M and EPS of $0.05 on the back of adtech glitches (TechCrunch)
Twitter’s Growth Sags, But That Wasn’t the Worst Part (Bloomberg)
Snapchat beats in Q3, adding 7M users & revenue up 50% (TechCrunch)
Facebook disables Russian, Iranian networks, illustrating continued 2020 election threat (Washington Post)
Defiant Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won’t Police Political Speech (NYTimes)
On Facebook’s live stream, Zuckerberg’s free-speech lecture got a big thumbs up (Washington Post)
The Young Firms Rethinking Social Media (The Information)
Yahoo Groups Is Winding Down and All Content Will Be Permanently Removed (Vice)
Twitter says it will restrict users from retweeting world leaders who break its rules (TechCrunch)
LinkedIn gets physical, debuts Events hub for people to plan in-person networking events (TechCrunch)
Tweetstorm (@Grummz)
What Happens When Your Tweet Becomes a Subway Ad (One Zero)
Instagram’s Following Activity Tab Is Going Away (BuzzFeed News)
My Time at Snap (@marko_tupper)
Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends chat app with auto-status (TechCrunch)
READ THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF MARK ZUCKERBERG’S LEAKED INTERNAL FACEBOOK MEETINGS (The Verge)

September

Snap Detailed Facebook’s Aggressive Tactics in ‘Project Voldemort’ Dossier (WSJ)
Twitter suspends account of former top Saudi aide implicated in Khashoggi killing (Washington Post)
Snapchat is adding a 3D Camera Mode, the latest salvo in its feature race with Instagram (TechCrunch)
TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds a huge U.S. audience (The Washington Post)
Facebook Dating launches in the US, adds Instagram integration (TechCrunch)

August

YouTube to adjust UK algorithm to cut false and extremist content (The Guardian)
Instagram’s latest assault on Snapchat is a messaging app called Threads (The Verge)
Google shutters more than 200 YouTube channels amid Hong Kong protests (CNBC)
Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior From China (Facebook)
Updating our advertising policies on state media (Twitter)
YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual copyright claims to steal creator revenue (TechCrunch)
Facebook is simplifying group privacy settings and adding admin tools for safety (The Verge)
Twinfluencers Are Taking Over the Internet (The Atlantic)
How Facebook Is Changing to Deal With Scrutiny of Its Power (NYTimes)
Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content (WSJ)
Here’s why the internet is obsessed with ‘number neighbors,’ a viral trend where people text phone numbers one digit away from their own (Business Insider)
Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature (The Information)
The biggest risks to TikTok (The Interface)
Where Everyone’s an Influencer (The Atlantic)

July

Facebook Approached Netflix, Disney to Support TV Chat Device (The Information)
The YouTubers Union Is Not Messing Around (Motherboard)
Chris Hughes Worked to Create Facebook. Now, He Is Working to Break It Up. (NYTimes)
The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds” (BuzzFeed News)
The Onion’s Guide To TikTok (The Onion)
Snap shares surge as results smash estimates (CNBC)
TikTok Stars Are Preparing to Take Over the Internet (The Atlantic)
Grindr Wanted To Make The World Better For Queer People. Then A Chinese Gaming Company Bought It. (Buzzfeed)
Andy Ngo Has The Newest New Media Career. It’s Made Him A Victim And A Star (Buzzfeed)
How To Game Google To Make Negative Results Disappear (BuzzFeed News)

June

Memes Are the New Pop Stars: How TikTok Became the Future of the Music Industry (The Ringer)

April

These Women Are Only On Facebook For The Groups (BuzzFeed News)
To cut down on spam, Twitter cuts the number of accounts you can follow per day (TechCrunch)
‘CHANGE MY VIEW’ REDDIT COMMUNITY LAUNCHES ITS OWN WEBSITE (Wired)
To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself (TechCrunch)
Snapchat will power Stories & ads in other apps (TechCrunch)
Facebook will stop asking new users for their email passwords (Axios)
Google begins shutting down its failed Google+ social network (The Verge)
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant (Bloomberg)
New Facebook tool answers the question ‘Why am I seeing this post?’ (TechCrunch)
Citizen Zuck: The making of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (CNET)

March

Mobile time-spent jumps up: YouTube corners ~40% of the traffic, Facebook less than 10% (WhatsNewInPublishing)
Facebook Messenger now has message threads (VentureBeat)
Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting — and the humans who outsmarted its systems (Washington Post)
FACEBOOK’S HEAD OF PRODUCT LEAVES AFTER PRIVACY PIVOT (Wired)
As Mark Zuckerberg Tightens Grip on Facebook, 2 Top Deputies Leave (NYTimes)
The New Zealand Massacre Was Made to Go Viral (NYTimes)
Telegram gained three million new users during Facebook outage (The Verge)
Tumblr traffic dropped by nearly 100M views the month after it banned porn (TNW)
Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for Facebook breakup (Politico)
How TikTok Is Rewriting the World (NYTimes)
Facebook vs. Apple (Slate)
Facebook has a big, terrifying dream to be the communication backbone for the Western world (Business Insider)
A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking (Mark Zuckerberg)
A ‘privacy-focused’ Facebook would kill Zuckerberg’s business model (The Guardian)
Facebook’s Privacy Cake (Stratechery)
Mark Zuckerberg Tried Hard To Get Facebook Into China. Now The Company May Be Backing Away. (Buzzfeed News)
Facebook won’t let you opt-out of its phone number ‘look up’ setting (TechCrunch)
Harry McCracken’s Facebook tweet (Twitter)
Facebook explains how it’ll review nude photos to stop revenge porn (The Verge)
Facebook’s New CAPTCHA Test: ‘Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face’ (Wired)

February

TikTok was bigger than Instagram last year after passing the 1 billion download mark (Business Insider)
Facebook Grappling With Employee Anger Over Moderator Conditions (Bloomberg)
The curse of the Twitter reply guy (Mashable)
Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos (Bloomberg)
On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight (Wired)
Youtube is Facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of Children, and it’s Being Monetized (2019) (Matt Watson, YouTube)
YouTube terminates more than 400 channels following child exploitation controversy (The Verge)
Reddit raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation — now it’s ready to take on Facebook and Google (CNBC)
How Facebook’s Tiny China Sales Floor Helps Generate Big Ad Money (NYTimes)
Twitter Q4 Earnings (TechCrunch)
Facebook’s top PR exec is leaving (ReCode)
Zuckerberg’s Facebook Post
Twitter removed some accounts originating in Iran, Russia and Venezuela that targeted U.S. midterm election (The Washington Post)

January

Mark Zuckerberg wants to get back to building new Facebook products (ReCode)
Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger (NYTimes)
Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money (Reveal)
Facebook ignored kids’ spending problems, internal documents reveal (BBC News)
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: The Rolling Stone Interview (Rolling Stone)
“The Linux of social media”—How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging (Ars Technica)
Reddit’s r/changemyview is a template for how all online discussion should be (TNW)
Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from Russia (Facebook Newsroom)
I Mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I Loved Facebook. But I Can’t Stay Silent About What’s Happening. (Time)
FACEBOOK’S ‘10 YEAR CHALLENGE’ IS JUST A HARMLESS MEME—RIGHT? (Wired)
Facebook’s new Stories feature for event sharing actually sounds useful (The Verge)
A Picture Of An Egg Beat Kylie Jenner For The Most Liked Instagram Of All Time (BuzzFeed News)
Zuckerberg’s 2019 Challenge Post
Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study (Ars Technica)

2018

December

Instagram briefly switched to a horizontal feed and people freaked out (The Verge)
Instagram’s Christmas Crackdown (The Atlantic)
As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants (NYTimes)
Facebook still hasn’t launched a big privacy feature that Mark Zuckerberg promised more than seven months ago (Recode)
Instagram Was Bigger Russian Election Tool Than Facebook, Senate Report Says (Bloomberg)
Google moves up Google+ consumer shutdown to April 2019 (VentureBeat)
Social media outpaces print newspapers in the U.S. as a news source (Pew Research Center)
Reddit’s Year in Review: 2018 (Upvoted)
Google is shutting down Allo (The Verge)
These Confidential Charts Show Why Facebook Bought WhatsApp (Buzzfeed)
Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th (The Verge)

November

Instagram now lets you share Stories to a Close Friends list (TechCrunch)
YouTube is rolling out its Instagram-like Stories feature to more creators (The Verge)
Facebook Considered Charging for Access to User Data (WSJ)
Facebook’s YouTube competitor is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and publishers balk (CNBC)
Tumblr was removed from Apple’s App Store over child pornography issues (The Verge)
Tweet Storm on Where Tumblr’s Gone (@bluechoochoo)
With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style (WSJ)
Facebook Morale Takes a Tumble Along With Stock Price (WSJ)
‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ So Say Some Computer Science Students. (NYTimes)
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis (NYTimes)
Facebook quietly launches a TikTok competitor app called Lasso (The Verge)
A Guide to TikTok for Anyone Who Isn’t a Teen (Slate)
Vine co-founder plans to launch successor Byte in Spring 2019 (TechCrunch)
So I sent my mom that newfangled Facebook Portal (TechCrunch)
Medium Post on Facebook and the Election (Jonathan Albright)
Did You Vote? Now Your Friends May Know (and Nag You) (NYTimes)
The Facebook Dilemma, Part 1 (Frontline on YouTube)
WhatsApp found a place to show you ads (The Verge)

October

Zuckerberg says the future is sharing via 100B messages & 1B Stories/day (TechCrunch)
Two more platforms have suspended Gab in the wake of Pittsburgh shooting (TechCrunch)
On Gab, an Extremist-Friendly Site, Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Aired His Hatred in Full (NYTimes)
Messenger redesigns to clean up Facebook’s mess (TechCrunch)
How Facebook’s Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basement (Wired)
Oculus co-founder is leaving Facebook after cancellation of ‘Rift 2’ headset (TechCrunch)
Twitter Suspends Pro-Saudi Bots Spreading Propaganda About the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi (Gizmodo)
Twitter Pulls Down Bot Network That Pushed Pro-Saudi Talking Points about Disappeared Journalist (NBC News)
Twitter makes it easier to see enforcement taken on reported tweets (TechCrunch)
Facebook purged over 800 accounts and pages pushing political messages for profit (The Washington Post)
How China’s biggest social network fights fake news (Abacus)
9 highlights from Snapchat CEO’s 6,000-word leaked memo on survival (TechCrunch)
Facebook Login Update (Facebook Newsroom)
Internet, social media use and device ownership in U.S. have plateaued after years of growth (Pew Research Center)

September

Exclusive: WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind (Forbes)
Facebook’s Messing With Instagram Prompted Co-Founders’ Departure (WSJ)
Why Instagram’s founders are resigning: independence from Facebook weakened (TechCrunch)
Facebook’s Terrible Year Hits a New Low (Bloomberg Opinion)
Instagram may divide hashtags from captions to end overhashing (TechCrunch)
Instagram is testing a native resharing feature for the feed (The Verge)
Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’ (NYTimes)
Inside the Dramatic, Painful–and Hugely Successful–Return of Reddit’s Founders (Inc)
The ACLU Is Charging Facebook With Gender Discrimination In Its Targeted Ads (Buzzfeed News)
Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men (ProPublica)
The Tweet that got Twitter to bring back the chrono-feed (@EmmaKinema)
Mobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing down (TechCrunch)
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? (The New Yorker)
Facebook Apologizes For Taking Down Your Horny Burt Reynolds Posts (Vulture)
Snap just lost its chief strategy officer (Fast Company)
Twitter’s Flawed Solution to Political Polarization (NYTimes Opinion)
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? (The New Yorker)
Charlie Warzel Twitter Thread (Twitter)
HOW THAT MAGICAL JACK DORSEY–ALEX JONES PHOTO HAPPENED (Wired)
A Facebook scientist tied to Cambridge Analytica has quietly left Facebook (Fast Company)
Facebook and Twitter testified before Congress. Conservative conspiracy theorists lurked behind them. (The Washington Post)
Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook (PEW Research)

August

Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media (The Guardian)
You can now apply to be verified in Instagram (The Verge)
The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People (Motherboard)
Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is the New Summer Job (The Atlantic)
Facebook is rating the trustworthiness of its users on a scale from zero to 1 (The Washington Post)
LET’S ALL GO BACK TO TUMBLR (The Outline)
Twitter company email addresses why it’s #BreakingMyTwitter (TechCrunch)
WhatsApp Co-Founder’s ‘Rest and Vest’ Reward From Facebook: $450 Million (WSJ)
Tinder’s business will double this year to more than $800 million (Recode)
Twitter says Alex Jones and InfoWars accounts don’t violate policy, will remain live for now (CNBC)
Facebook, Apple, YouTube and Spotify ban Infowars’ Alex Jones (The Guardian)
Facebook to Banks: Give Us Your Data, We’ll Give You Our Users (WSJ)
Facebook taps banks, but for chatbots not purchase data like Google (TechCrunch)
Google Maps location sharing shows your contact’s battery level (Android Police)
As Memes Evolve, Apps Are Struggling to Keep Up (The Atlantic)

July

June

Facebook tests 30-day keyword snoozing to fight spoilers, triggers (TechCrunch)
Twitter ‘smytes’ customers (TechCrunch)
How Twitter Made The Tech World’s Most Unlikely Comeback (BuzzFeed)
Facebook launches gameshows platform with interactive video (TechCrunch)
Instagram’s Wannabe-Stars Are Driving Luxury Hotels Crazy (The Atlantic)
The Twitter crime mystery that gripped Spain (BBC)
Meet the people who still use Myspace: ‘It’s given me so much joy’ (The Guardian)
Instagram plans to launch Snapchat Discover-style video hub (TechCrunch)
Instagram Could Soon Allow Users to Post Long-Form Video (WSJ)
Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders (WSJ)

May

Snapchat preps Snapkit platform to bring camera, login to other apps (TechCrunch)
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next (Vox)
Instagram Finally Adds A Mute Button, Saving Countless Friendships (BuzzFeed)
How Evan Spiegel Fumbled Snap’s Redesign (The Information)
Yanny or Laurel? How an Audio Clip Divided the Internet (NYTimes)
The True History of ‘Yanny’ and ‘Laurel’ (Wired)
“It Was Cataclysmic”: Can Snapchat Survive Its Redesign? (Vanity Fair)
Link to the Russian Facebook ads (House.gov)
Twitter has an unlaunched ‘Secret’ encrypted messages feature (TechCrunch)
Why ‘Stories’ Took Over Your Smartphone (The Atlantic)
Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option (Bloomberg)
Facebook May Have Secret Plans to Build a Satellite-Based Internet (ieee spectrum)
Stories are about to surpass feed sharing. Now what? (TechCrunch)
Mark Zuckerberg Says it Will Take 3 Years to Fix Facebook (Wired)
WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook (Washington Post)

April

As controversy swirls, Facebook dials down the swagger on its developer conference (The Verge)
You could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators (Quartz)
Checking in with the Facebook fact-checking partnership (Columbia Journalism Review)