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Elon Musk’s X is living up to its name.

In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

The obits for the tech mogul’s time at the Department of Government Efficiency are, justifiably, vicious.

Spotify and YouTube barred the song, which salutes Hitler, from their platforms. It found its audience, anyway.

Trump has always drawn ideas from the darker corners of the Internet, but his new opponent has found a different kind of traction by embracing the Web’s native formats.

The X C.E.O. has been using his platform to sound off on topics including Venezuela’s election, Trump’s campaign, and racial violence in the U.K.

After an I.P.O. last week, Truth Social is confronting the gaping incongruity between its valuation and the paltry reality of its product.

Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.

As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the Internet’s most paradoxical, special places.

Users and advertisers are fleeing X after Musk’s message supporting an antisemitic conspiracy theory. But the platform seems destined to die a slow death.

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.

A congressman described Musk as a “concerned citizen with a megaphone.” But Musk’s megaphone is the problem.

What happened to antisemitic rants before social media.

It’s time to move beyond the flawed idea of a global conversation platform.

The surprising personal and cultural reasons for his “X” affection and rebranding of Twitter.

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.

The personal politics of Twitter’s owner wouldn’t matter so much if he hadn’t also demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for pettiness.

The former Fox host is embracing his new outsider status with “Tucker on Twitter.”

Ron DeSantis’s botched campaign launch suggests that he’s no Trump-killer.

The new platform aims to be a decentralized alternative to Twitter. The vibe there is mostly like that of a Portland coffee shop.