These 9 Members of Congress Are Defending TikTok on TikTok
Photo: J. Scott Applewhite (AP) With calls for a national ban against TikTok growing more and more common by the week, particularly in Congress, it’s never been a tougher time…
A McDonald’s Exec Is Worried Elon’s Tweets Are ‘Perpetuating Racism’
Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Images) The Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer for McDonald’s reportedly told other advertising heavyweights that Elon Musk’s relentless shitposting in the name of free speech…
The Dude With Sign Instagram Account Is Suing a Chocolate Company
Seth Phillips, AKA Dude With Sign, in 2021.Image: Scott Roth (AP) The company behind the viral Dude With Sign meme is suing an Oregon chocolate company, alleging copyright infringement. FJerry…
Investigation Finds YouTube Served New Teen User Almost 30 Andrew Tate Videos in Less Than 2 Hours
After signing up to YouTube as a new, 13-year-old user, Sky News found that YouTube flooded the feed with Andrew Tate videos, despite the professional misogynist being banned from the…
Substack Is Totally Borked on Twitter
Like a voodoo doll that’s been poked and prodded by an overly-enthusiastic amateur magician, Elon Musk’s Twitter has started to come apart at the seams. Now it’s an open question…
Google is Finally Bringing Live Translate Captions to Chrome
After nearly two years, Chrome browsers may soon finally get a feature that has thus far been restricted to Google Pixel phones. On Thursday, Reddit user and Chrome Canary beta…
Inside Google’s Plan to Kill the Cookie
Next year, Google will get rid of third-party cookies, the tracking tool marketers and data hogs have used to follow you around the web since 1994. To replace the cookie,…
Yes, Tinder Is Working on a $500 Subscription Tentatively Called ‘Tinder Vault’
Tinder has struggled to move away from its identity as a hook-up app as parent company Match Group talked up ‘premium subscription features.’Photo: Lauren DeCicca (Getty Images) Tinder is working…
Spotify Live Dies
Spotify is officially shuttering its Clubhouse copycat called Spotify Live. The feature was a bit like a live radio station that listeners could access on the Spotify mobile app. How…
7 Other Times the U.S. Stupidly Tried to Ban TikTok
Photo: Samuel Corum (AP) U.S. government efforts to ban TikTok over national security grounds, once considered a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream, are looking more and more likely by the week, especially…