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Getting paid for a bad date: Crypto is making it a thing

Cyber heart symbol in cyberspace.

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Getting paid for a bad date: Crypto is making it a thing

Web3 entrepreneurs are trying to monetize dating and sex.

Technology

Trouble at Truth Social: New filing details laundry list of risks facing Trump

Losses, lawsuits and investigations could imperil the fledgling app’s merger plans.

Technology

The social spaces where the Buffalo shooter became extremist

The shooting was livestreamed — and then posted again and again.

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How violent extremists use livestreams and manifestos to build an audience for hate

An expert explains how mass violence in Buffalo or Christchurch is produced and distributed for a vast global audience.

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Why Elon Musk can’t just walk away from the Twitter deal

His recent tweets may be a renegotiation strategy.

Technology

The not-so-stable coins: How Terra’s collapse is dragging down crypto markets

And bitcoin continues to fall amid inflation.

Technology

Elon Musk bets the farm: How the billionaire’s Twitter buy could blow back on Tesla

Musk is leveraging Tesla stock for his Twitter purchase, making the companies odd bedfellows.

Elon Musk hates government subsidies. His companies love them.

A Grid analysis of Musk’s companies shows more than $7 billion in government contracts alone.

Maggie Severns, Domestic Policy Reporter, Matt Stiles, Senior Data Visualization Reporter, and Alex Leeds Matthews, Data Visualization Reporter

April 30, 2022

Elon Musk takes on the world’s regulators, Twitter-style

There are cases where you can’t tweet through it.

Benjamin Powers, Technology Reporter

April 28, 2022

What will Elon Musk do with Twitter data?

Twitter is a public record. What happens when it’s owned by one man?

Benjamin Powers, Technology Reporter

April 27, 2022

What is Elon Musk doing with Twitter? 7 questions about the billionaire’s big buy

Speculation mounts about whether Musk will allow Donald Trump back on Twitter.

Benjamin Powers, Technology Reporter, Maggie Severns, Domestic Policy Reporter, Steve Reilly, Investigative Reporter, and Matthew Zeitlin, Domestic Economics Reporter

April 25, 2022

Some companies still fire people for getting phished. It doesn’t make them more secure.

Harsh penalties can create distrust that weakens overall security.

Benjamin Powers, Technology Reporter

April 19, 2022

Why ‘goblin mode’ Elon Musk might regret trying to buy Twitter

Purchasing the social media site could put him in regulators’ crosshairs and blow back on Tesla and SpaceX.

Benjamin Powers, Technology Reporter, and Maggie Severns, Domestic Policy Reporter

April 15, 2022

Parent vs. parent: A fight over admissions rockets from Zoom to Twitter to criminal court

When a Virginia magnet school tried to overhaul its admissions policy, a national debate became personal.

Maggie Severns, Domestic Policy Reporter

April 15, 2022

How Big Tech is quietly pushing for watered-down state privacy laws

Tech companies have been busy pushing bills through themselves, a preemptive move to head off tougher laws.

Benjamin Powers, Technology Reporter

April 11, 2022

Can a tweet be evidence? How social media is being used to hunt down war crimes in Ukraine

An expert on human rights investigations explains how to speed the search for justice using Twitter and TikTok.

Jason Paladino, Investigative Reporter

April 11, 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter buy is bigger than an edit button

The right couldn’t make its own successful social network. Now it’s looking to Elon Musk to reshape Twitter.

Benjamin Powers, Technology Reporter

April 8, 2022