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Gillette responds to the backlash against its woke viral ad

Although data reveals the social response to the ad has been generally positive, Fast Company spoke with Gillette’s brand about the ensuing controversy.

AP told Democrats: “It takes two to tango.” Twitter wasn’t thrilled

Who is Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun? Saudi woman protests her own deportation on Twitter

The world retweet record has been broken

People are falling off buildings in search of the perfect Instagram shot

In pursuit of clicks, likes, and followers, a growing number of daredevils are risking injury or even death. What can we do about that?

How I redesigned Twitter to be mostly harmless

You don’t need to wait for a capital-D designer to save you from bad UX.

33 of our favorite tweets of 2018

These are the tweets that made us laugh, cry, and go WTF throughout the year.

Twitter’s toxic misogyny just helped knock 11% off its stock value

A woman on Twitter is abused every 30 seconds

The frantic, unprecedented race to save 700,000 NSFW Tumblrs for posterity

Volunteers are scrambling to download up to 800 terabytes of content from Tumblr’s adult-themed community before it disappears from view on December 17.

Jack Dorsey tries to clear up his obliviousness about Myanmar atrocities

The hot new conference swag favored by Lyft, WordPress, and Twitter

Branded garlic is now a thing.

How to watch Google’s Sundar Pichai testify before Congress today

It’s official: More people get news from social media than newspapers

3 things Facebook could do to fix itself (even if it won’t)

Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others are damaging society but reluctant to admit it, write Matthew Crain and Anthony M. Nadler.

Meet the Tumblr castaways trying to save its adult content from oblivion

Tumblr posters of porn and kink fear a ban on naughty content will eviscerate not only their blogs, but the communities they’ve built on the networks.

Twitter’s year in review reveals the most quoted, retweeted, and liked tweets of 2018

Alfred Molina’s biggest fan has to do his autopsy in this razor-sharp satirical short

This absurdist short film parodies the way we mourn celebrities on the internet.