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September 27, 2016
Navneet Alang
Life’s a Snap!
Snapchat's new camera-glasses, Spectacles, herald a new cultural form—for better and worse.
September 9, 2016
Sukjong Hong
Facebook’s censorship of a historic Vietnam War photo proves human editors trump robots.
July 14, 2016
Clio Chang
Trump and Clinton are ruining Pokémon Go.
June 22, 2016
MagazinePaul Ford
Reboot the World
The internet was supposed to be democratic and open to all. Then Facebook and the NSA got their hands on it. Is it too late to reclaim our digital future?
May 26, 2016
Navneet Alang
Who’s Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?
AI will make our devices obsolete. What does that mean for human relationships to technology?
May 13, 2016
Brian Beutler
Facebook, the IRS, and the GOP’s Bullshit Feedback Loop
Republicans can't resist a good anti-conservative conspiracy theory.
May 13, 2016
Navneet Alang
Life in the Age of Algorithms
As society becomes more wedded to technology, it's important to consider the formulas that govern our data.
May 9, 2016
Laura Reston
Does Facebook have a liberal bias?
April 22, 2016
Clio Chang
Hasbro’s Facebook Live broadcast is a terrifying glimpse into the future of social media.
April 18, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
What was the website?
February 8, 2016
Meaghan Murphy
Facebook’s attempt to become India’s internet has been thwarted.
February 4, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
Remember 2007, when Facebook was a hip new tool for presidential candidates?
December 14, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
The Ted Cruz campaign built a voter “personality test,” so neurotic gun owners see ads with a robber breaking into a home.
December 1, 2015
Alex Shephard
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan say they'll give the vast majority of their fortune to philanthropy.
November 24, 2015
Ryu Spaeth
Did you take that "most used words" quiz on Facebook? Probably not a great idea!
November 23, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Mark Zuckerberg should take Facebook's full paternity leave.
November 18, 2015
Nausicaa Renner
Why We Trade Privacy for Facebook Likes
A legal theorist’s new book explains how our desires are woven into the surveillance state.
August 24, 2015
Navneet Alang
How to Escape the Public Internet
June 2, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
News Formats Change, But the Content Stays the Same
Things people want to read haven't changed much since the dawn of mass media.
April 20, 2015
Doug Bock Clark
The Bot Bubble
How click farms have inflated social media currency

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