Submissions by DLay

TikTok insiders say company is tightly controlled by Chinese parent ByteDance

Out-group animosity drives engagement on social media

China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life for Uyghurs

YouTube Shorts Is Taking on TikTok, Minting a New Constellation of Concise Stars

Algorithm Wants to Buy Your Favorite Shopify Storefront

Roku Dominated Streaming Video

I Taught Online School This Year. It Was a Disgrace

Islands in the Stream: Musicians are in peril

Future from a16z

Khaby Lame, the Everyman of the Internet

Snapchat became the forgotten social platform

Young Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down

The Terrible Cost of Mark Zuckerberg’s Naïveté

Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?

Government Finds No Evidence That Aerial Sightings Were Alien Spacecraft

Customers Love Free Stuff but That’s Not Your Problem

Silicon Valley's Social App and Teen Obsession

Kids Are Making ‘Marriage Pacts’ to Distract Themselves from Doom

Against being a “real” person online

Apple parts ways with recent hire Antonio Garcia-Martinez amid backlash

Chinese AR startup develops smart glasses to help police catch suspects

Bumble’s Head of Product Design to Join Twitter

The Great Online Game

I Became a Mother at 25, and I’m Not Sorry I Didn’t Wait

San Francisco’s tech fiefdom is dying

TikTok Chooses Which Songs Go Viral

The Therapy-App Fantasy

I want to live on AuntKatie's Internet