The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.
Proton CEO responds to backlash after his post supporting Trump's selection sparks Reddit firestorm
On Reddit, it’s often a single post that ignites a firestorm of reactions. Andy Yen, founder and CEO of Proton Privacy, recently found himself in the hot seat after a seemingly innocuous commendation of Donald Trump’s nomination of Gail Slater as Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division. What started as a simple pat on […]
Does Proton really support Trump? A deeper analysis (and surprising findings)
Recently, allegations surfaced on Reddit that Proton (or at least Proton’s CEO) supports Trump. Hillary Keverenge from Tech-Issues Today…
So... That happened.
1.9K votes, 1.3K comments. 218K subscribers in the ProtonMail community. Welcome to the official Proton Mail subreddit. Proton Mail is a secure email…
So... That happened.
1.9K votes, 1.3K comments. 218K subscribers in the ProtonMail community. Welcome to the official Proton Mail subreddit. Proton Mail is a secure email…
So... That happened.
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On Politics and Proton - a message from Andy
1.1K votes, 1K comments. Hi all, last night, a post from end of last year from my personal X account about antitrust policy in the US suddenly became…
Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning
Proton CEO Andy Yen projects a calm persona and rails against Big Tech and critiques AI. Internally, he is pushing engineers to build Proton with AI, even when they have security concerns.
"Proton To ‘Re-Interview’ Staff About AI To See Who Gets To Keep Their Job" - Can we get a comment on this please?
1.3K votes, 1.1K comments. 218K subscribers in the ProtonMail community. Welcome to the official Proton Mail subreddit. Proton Mail is a secure email…
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Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization
Using nationally representative data from the 2020 and 2024 American National Election Studies (ANES), this paper describes how U.S. social media use has shifted across platforms, demographics, and politics. Overall platform reach declined, driven by growth in the share of Americans — especially the youngest and oldest cohorts — who report using no social media. Visiting and posting activity on Twitter/X and Facebook have fallen by nearly 50% since 2020, with the decline on Twitter/X driven primarily by reduced participation among Democratic users. While Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter/X lost ground, TikTok and Reddit grew modestly, consistent with a more fragmented digital public sphere. Platform audiences aged and became slightly more educated and racially diverse. Politically, most platforms shifted toward Republican users while remaining, on balance, Democratic-leaning. Twitter/X experienced the largest change: among posters, the partisan balance swung over 70 percentage points from Democrats to Republicans. Across platforms, political posting remains closely tied to affective polarization, as the most partisan respondents are also the most active. As casual users disengage while polarized partisans remain vocal, online discourse becomes narrower and more ideologically extreme.
The social media discourse of engaged partisans is toxic even when politics are irrelevant
Abstract. Prevailing theories of partisan incivility on social media suggest that it derives from disagreement about political issues or from status compet
The social media discourse of engaged partisans is toxic even when politics are irrelevant
Abstract. Prevailing theories of partisan incivility on social media suggest that it derives from disagreement about political issues or from status compet
How in the hell is @proton.me being led by a straight up maga chud not the biggest news right now.
Is social media truly making us more politically polarized, or does it simply over-represent our most extreme opinions? In our new preprint, @small-schulz.bsky.social and I present *punishing evidence* that social media systematically overrepresents users’ most extreme political opinions. 1/n
