Ryan Bort

TikTok Returns in U.S. After Going Dark Ahead of Ban Deadline

TikTok Returns in U.S. After Going Dark Ahead of Ban Deadline

The app announced it was "in the process of restoring service" on Sunday

January 20, 2025

Elon Musk Says He Wants New Twitter CEO by Year’s End. We’ll See

There's plenty of reason to doubt he'll step aside, especially when he says doing so depends on whether the platform…

February 18, 2023

Conservatives Are Now Freaking Out About [Spins Wheel] a Lesbian in ‘Scooby Doo’

The classic cartoon's Halloween special portrays Velma as queer, and right-wing pundits can't cope

October 7, 2022

The World’s Richest Man Just Bought the World’s Most Influential Social Media Platform — What Could Go Wrong?

Elon Musk and Twitter have struck a deal for the billionaire Tesla founder to take over the company

April 25, 2022

Elon Musk, Who Just Tweeted That 69.420% of Stats Are False, Makes Play to Take Total Control of Twitter

Tesla’s billionaire CEO seems intent on turning the social media platform into a cesspool of hate speech, misinformation, and abuse

April 14, 2022

Biden Slaps Sanctions on Russia for ‘Beginning of an Invasion’ Into Ukraine

“We still believe that Russia is poised to go much further and launch a massive military attack against Ukraine,” the…

February 23, 2022

The Climate Crisis Is Now So Bad That Even the Arctic Is Emitting Pollution

A bombshell federal report paints a grim picture of life in the world’s no-longer-so-icy nether-regions

December 12, 2019

Bob Woodward’s New Trump Book Sounds Both Damning and Frightening

The veteran Watergate scribe allegedly has evidence that the Trump White House is as dysfunctional and broken as everyone fears

September 6, 2018