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October 14, 2025
Robert McCoy
Meta Caves to Pam Bondi and Takes Down ICE-Tracking Facebook Page
The Trump administration is getting social media platforms to bend to its will on content moderation.
October 6, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Supreme Court Tells Laura Loomer to Shut Up Already
The Supreme Court refused to hear the far-right commentator’s censorship case.
September 25, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Professor Can’t Be Fired for Criticizing Charlie Kirk, Judge Rules
A University of South Dakota professor has been (at least temporarily) reinstated, in a win for free speech.
August 12, 2025
Sandeep Vaheesan
The (Sort of) Win Over Google and Meta That Trump and Biden Agree On
Even Trump’s DOJ is pursuing cases that could make Google sell off Chrome. But the suits still leave a dangerous piece of the business model untouched.
March 11, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Is Costing His Billionaire Buddies a Lot of Money
Turns out, Donald Trump hasn’t actually been good for business.
January 20, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Trump Reveals His True Priority in Weird Inauguration Speech Pivot
Donald Trump took a moment to reflect on the devastating impact of the Los Angeles fires.
January 16, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Google Snubs EU Law Over Fact-Checking YouTube Videos
Google announced it would pull out of the EU’s anti-disinformation code of practice.
January 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
New Details of Meta’s Rule Change Give Away Zuckerberg’s Whole Game
Mark Zuckerberg is only trying to please one person.
January 14, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Will Have a Shocking Entourage at His Inauguration
Donald Trump has fully embraced tech billionaires this presidency.
January 14, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Steve Bannon Warns Trump’s Newest MAGA Stooge “Can’t Be Trusted”
Bannon is not thrilled by the growing ranks of Silicon Valley billionaires around Donald Trump.
January 8, 2025
Thom Hartmann
Which Party Benefits From Zuckerberg’s Move? The One That Lies a Lot.
Meta’s decision to drop fact-checking is obviously designed to curry favor with Trump. But it goes well beyond that.
March 12, 2024
Alex Shephard
The Simple Reason Trump Is Suddenly Defending TikTok
The president thinks backing the embattled short-form video app will help him and his rich friends.
February 25, 2024
Sandeep Vaheesan, Tara Pincock
The Red States Fighting the Good Fight Against Big Tech
Conservative state governments have taken an antitrust battle to the Supreme Court’s doorstep—and you should root for them to win.
February 2, 2024
Alex Shephard
The Messenger Didn’t Stand a Chance
Yes, the founders of The Messenger were clueless. But the news site was doomed to fail no matter who was in charge.
September 28, 2023
Molly Taft
How Iowa Wind Energy Got Sucked Into an Online Meme War
For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike supported the clean energy transition in the Hawkeye State. But recently, there’s been a surge in local opposition to projects.
July 30, 2023
Sam Venis
How the Media Lost the Traffic War to Facebook and Google
BuzzFeed and other big media brands of the social-web heyday were casualties of a gold rush controlled by Silicon Valley giants.
July 13, 2023
Alex Thomas
Hysterical Conservatives Are Accusing Meta’s Threads of Censorship
Their complaints are bad faith attempts to normalize misinformation and conspiracy theories.
July 7, 2023
Rob Pegoraro
A Judge Says Biden Can’t Scold Social Media Firms. That Makes Zero Sense.
His ruling seems more interested in ideological grievance than the First Amendment.
January 31, 2023
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump Is Boring Now
There’s no reason to worry about the former president’s imminent return to Facebook—yet.
December 14, 2022
PodcastThe Politics of Everything
Are Twitter’s Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media?
It’s hard to imagine life without social networking apps. But maybe Elon Musk is helping us figure out how.
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