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Now that August is waning, social media users are bracing for the avalanche of back-to-school photos and mom posts about how children are adjusting to the school year. Kids may need more encouragement and affirmation this time of year, and…

“We are becoming sillier by the minute.” Such was Neil Postman’s judgment in 1985. In Amusing Ourselves to Death, he warned against the consequences of the decline of a print-based culture in favor of “a television-based epistemology.” That…

While fact-checking a Federalist article early Monday morning, I did a quick Google search for “hunter biden joe biden ‘an absolute wall.’” It’s the language now-President Joe Biden used during the 2020 campaign to allege a separation…

A new law in Illinois requires social media influencers who rake in tens of thousands of dollars for exploiting their children on the internet to pay those kids for their appearances in vlogs. Statutes demanding parents set aside pay for…

Three years ago, I bought a rundown dump of an old hunting camp and have been fixing it up ever since. This process has involved, among countless other (invariably stinky) tasks, hauling out a musty AstroTurf “area rug” and skim-coating the…

On Thursday afternoon, three Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals judges heard Biden administration arguments to let government keep pressuring social media monopolies to ban ideas they don’t like from the internet. On July 4, a lower court had…

I have never owned a kaleidoscope. But whenever I see one in a small trinket shop or on a shelf in the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, I have also never been able to resist. Whenever I would pick one up and hold it toward the ceiling…

X, the site formerly known as Twitter, is now letting its Blue subscribers hide the once-coveted verification “blue check”—the status symbol they pay $8 a month for—on their account. What do you think?“All the best goods and servicesare…

Meta’s new app Threads has lost about half its 100 million users after the app’s launch a month ago, with Mark Zuckerberg calling the regression normal and pledging to add more features to keep users engaged. What do you think?“Who would’ve…

Published by Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan Friday, part two of the “Facebook Files” details more White House collusion with Silicon Valley censors over coronavirus content — including requests to censor posts about Covid-19 vaccine side…