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Gen Z creators are learning the lessons of Scorsese and Akerman: putting mom and dad in your work brings pathos, complexity, and a certain frisson.

In a digital landscape overrun by algorithms and A.I., we need human guides to help us decide what’s worth paying attention to.

A prominent tech journalist sees Silicon Valley corporations making policy in Washington—and lawmakers refusing to regulate social media properly.

Is TikTok the killer app of social media—or a Trojan horse sent by the enemy? Two views on the recent ban. Plus, salmon in the dishwasher, and more highlights of culinary TikTok.

You can take the platform away from American users, but it is far too late to contain the habits that it has unleashed.

How the viral TikToks of a Chinese glycine factory elucidate our increasingly chaotic digital environment.

Byung-Chul Han, in treatises such as “The Burnout Society” and his latest, “The Crisis of Narration,” diagnoses the frenetic aimlessness of the digital age.

Alena Kate Pettitt helped lead an online movement promoting domesticity. Now she says, “It’s become its own monster.”

We know that social media breeds propaganda, misinformation, and feelings of isolation among users, especially children. How do we resist its effects without encroaching on civil liberties?

Radu Jude’s TikTok-tinged movie can be breathtakingly funny, but the absurdity is rooted in a powerful sense of outrage.

The freedom to use social media is a First Amendment right, even if it’s one we should all avail ourselves of less often.

“Donald Trump’s vision, or lack of vision, of what the United States can be in the world is a risk of a kind we really haven’t had in any of our lifetimes,” Evan Osnos says.

Nicola Fegg’s short documentary follows a young woman who becomes a social-media star during the war in Ukraine.

The canny marketing campaign behind the wildly popular tumblers.

Live-streamers have flooded the social-media platform to prove the righteousness of their side.

In the age of TikTok and Resy, scoring a dinner reservation can feel akin to winning the lottery. Is the hype around scene restaurants overshadowing our experience of the food itself?

The Israel-Hamas war has displayed with fresh urgency the perils of relying on our feeds for updates about events unfolding in real time.

The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.

When a TikToker made Hugh Clegg’s video go viral without crediting him, Clegg started searching for the person behind the anonymous account.

Much of what’s on the new social network is the kind of banal celebrity and brand self-promotion that users have tried to avoid on Twitter.