PremiumOpinionOpinion byJulia AngwinNew York Times·11 May, 2026 11:30 PM8 mins to readJulia Angwin is a contribution opinion writer for The New York Times and an investigative journalist.Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Meta is "at the start of a long, slow decline," writes Julia Angwin. Photo / Jason Henry, The New York TimesMeta has commenced a long, slow slide into irrelevance.
There is a moment when internet companies get the stink of death on them. For AOL, it was 2003, when it became clear that its users were abandoning its clunky dial-up internet service for far-faster broadband. For Yahoo, it was 2015,
