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The Verge
Barbara Krasnoff @ The Verge · 01/08/2025 15:24 EDT

Social networking alternatives for the Meta- and Musk-averse

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge


As I write this, there are a lot of social network users who are wondering if they should look for a new home. Over at X, Elon Musk has essentially become part of the incoming Trump administration, while various changes have made the formerly popular social network a dark and forbidding forest for many of its former inhabitants.
Meanwhile, Meta’s announcement that it was abandoning third-party fact-checkers and moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texa

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