Reddit communities with millions of subscribers lead charge as social media landscape faces period of unprecedented turbulence

In the fallout of Elon Musk’s baffling appearance during President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a curious new front in the ongoing online culture war has emerged: a push by Reddit sports mods and users to ban links to X (formerly known as Twitter).

The federal government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, under an executive order that President Donald Trump signed Monday.

Robert Smith announced he was leaving X (formerly Twitter) for now this past Sunday. The Cure’s frontman/guitarist tweeted on Sunday afternoon: “19TH JANUARY 2025. TIME TO GO. ANY OTHER ACCOUNT ON TWITTER CLAIMING TO BE ME IS A LIE. I MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE HERE.”

U.S. citizens have been able to select "X" as their gender, to signify an "unspecified or another gender identity" since 2022. People could do this without their "X" marker needing to match the gender listed on their citizenship, identification or medical documents.

Major Reddit sports communities are considering banning posts from the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).

WASHINGTON − Elon Musk is keeping the pressure on European leaders. Musk frequently wields his 211.5-million-follower account on X, the social media platform he bought for $44 billion in 2022, to air political grievances and promote far-right issues.

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitch, X, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Dailymotion, Jeuxvideo.com, Rakuten Viber, and Microsoft-hosted consumer services have all signed the “Code

Instagram recently announced CapCut video editing rival Edits, and now X (formerly Twitter) and Bluesky are both rolling out vertical video feeds. "An immersive new home for videos is rolling out to users in the U.S. today," posted X's official account on Sunday.

This week, X began rolling out a dedicated video tab for U.S. users with a TikTok-esque endless scroll. “The Video Tab has arrived. LFG,” X CEO Linda Yaccarino wrote in a post Sunday night. If you’re still getting your dopamine from X despite, well, everything, you can find the tab next to the Grok AI button on the bottom of your screen.

A presidential pardon for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has sent expectations soaring that Trump will follow through on his campaign promise to create a U.S. bitcoin