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Would You Pay $1,000 for a Family Photo?

December 2, 2024

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Nobody Look at Mark Zuckerberg

Kaitlyn Tiffany

November 4, 2024

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I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is

October 10, 2024

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The Atlantic Daily

The Trouble With Party Invites Today

October 4, 2024

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Atlantic Intelligence

Donald Trump, AI Artist

August 23, 2024

A glitchy hand holds a MAGA flag

A New Development in the Debate About Instagram and Teens

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

July 17, 2024

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Atlantic Intelligence

The Mystery of Hot Jesus

July 5, 2024

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Hot AI Jesus Is Huge on Facebook

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

June 28, 2024

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I Will Not Thumbs-Up Your Email

January 18, 2024

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ChatGPT’s FarmVille Moment

January 12, 2024

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The Wonder Reader

How Siblings Shape Who We Are

September 16, 2023

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Slack Is Basically Facebook Now

September 14, 2023

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Tech Companies’ Friendly New Strategy to Destroy One Another

July 28, 2023

So Maybe Facebook Didn’t Ruin Politics

Kaitlyn Tiffany

July 27, 2023

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FOMO Has Never Been Worse on the Internet

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

July 13, 2023

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My Dad Had Dementia. He Also Had Facebook.

June 29, 2023

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The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified

May 23, 2023

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My 6-Year-Old Son Died. Then the Anti-vaxxers Found Out.

March 28, 2023

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Why Would Anyone Pay for Facebook?

February 25, 2023

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The Incoherence of Facebook’s Trump Decision

David A. Graham

January 27, 2023

Trump and Facebook’s Mutual Decay

January 25, 2023

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The Meta Oversight Board Has Some Genuinely Smart Suggestions

December 9, 2022

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The Internet, but for Hot People

Kaitlyn Tiffany

December 2, 2022

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How to Fight Fascism Before It’s Too Late

November 14, 2022

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How to Build a Life

Envy, the Happiness Killer

Arthur C. Brooks

October 20, 2022

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The Atlantic Daily

What Did Facebook Do Now?

August 1, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg

The Horrors of No-News Facebook

Kaitlyn Tiffany

July 25, 2022

How to Fix Twitter and Facebook

Jonathan L. Zittrain

June 9, 2022

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Meta Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does

June 6, 2022

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America In Person

The Only Good Thing Left About Facebook

April 28, 2022

The Facebook Papers

Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem

Matthew Hindman, Nathaniel Lubin, and Trevor Davis

February 10, 2022

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The Subversive Genius of Extremely Slow Email

January 12, 2022

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Welcome to Up for Debate

Conor Friedersdorf

December 1, 2021

Can Facebook Be Contained?

December 2021 Issue

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I Made the World’s Blandest Facebook Profile, Just to See What Happens

Kaitlyn Tiffany

November 19, 2021

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Why Facebook and Twitter Won’t Ban Anti-Semitism

November 16, 2021

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