Bluesky is raising new funding led by Bain Capital Ventures that would value the social media company at around $700 million, according to sources.

Lawyer and frequent Trump critic Tristan Snell observed that many of the talking points in Trump’s speech were “LITERALLY a rundown of Project 2025,” a far right manifesto drawn up by the Heritage Foundation that Trump had tried to distance himself from during the campaign.

Donald Trump recently unbanned TikTok in the US, but competitors like X and Bluesky are already capitalizing the opportunity by adding vertical video scrolling feeds to the social media platforms.

If you’ve heard of Bluesky, you’ve probably heard of it as a clone of Twitter where liberals can take refuge. But under the hood it’s structured fundamentally differently—in a way that could point us to a healthier internet for everyone, regardless of politics or identity.

Millions of connections” from social network X will be re-established on rivals BlueSky or Mastodon from Monday, a French researcher said, in a

There’s a reported uptick in bots spamming the hot new social platform, throwing a wrench in its plans to compete with X and Threads.

The $TRUMP coin was introduced on Friday during a “Crypto Ball” Trump was hosting in Washington, D.C. On social media, Trump described the coin as his “official Trump meme” that celebrated his “WINNING” the presidency.

Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president in United States history today. The nation’s big tech oligarchs have been cozying up to Trump with increasing enthusiasm, starting with Twitter/X’s Elon Musk before the election and continuing with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and TikTok’s leadership more recently.

Whenever Meta is embroiled in controversy, people rush to boycott Facebook. But its other flagship property, Instagram, often seems to dodge the backlash.

TikTok's services are restored in the U.S. after President-elect Donald Trump pledged to sign an executive order to save it. It's been a wild 24 hours to say the least — starting with TikTok preemptively shutting down the app for users from 10:30pm on January 18.

As Donald J. Trump prepares to take the oath of office for a second time, much of the world seems to be bowing down to him and demoralized opponents are rethinking the future.