Just 17 Very Good and Extremely Weird VICE Stories About the Internet
Who remembers “badger badger mushroom”?
America's TikTok Ban Passed the Lower House. What Does that Mean for Australia?
Conservative Australian politicians are calling on the government to act after a bill to force TikTok to divest from Chinese ownership passed the United States’ lower house last week.
Gen Z Are So Lonely They're Posting Friendship Applications on Facebook
Reminiscent of the old lonely hearts columns, people are using online community groups to advertise their BFF credentials.
Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding
After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.
Do Friend-Finding Platforms Actually Work?
Apps like TimeLeft are trying to beat loneliness by pairing strangers up as potential friends. I went down to see if it works.
NO MORE APPS!!! NO MORE APPS!!!!!!!
Last week, the newsletter turned cultural juggernaut "Perfectly Imperfect" launched a social network. WHY?
Zuckerberg Boasts He Will Be AI God King Because We Already Gave Him All Our Data
Meta's plan to overtake the competition in AI hinges on billions of images, posts, and videos that were willingly given.
Google Agrees To Pay Canadian News Outlets $100M Annually in Rare Win for Media Industry
The agreement is the result of months of negotiations related to the Online News Act, which aims to make “dominant platforms compensate news businesses" for their work.
Meta’s Deranged AI-Generated Stickers Include Waluigi with a Gun, Child Soldiers, Naked People
The fun is guaranteed not to last.
The Boogaloo Movement Keeps Finding Ways to Return to Facebook
Facebook axed nearly 100 Boogaloo Pages. Weeks later, they were back.
Congress Is Pushing An Online Safety Bill Supported By Anti-LGBTQ Groups
Advocates say the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) will be weaponized to censor LGBTQ content.
CYBER: Celebrating the End of the Usable Internet
There are more sites than ever, but they all feel completely useless. Why?