The new FTC commissioner has the authority, instincts, and acumen to meaningfully rein in the power of companies like Facebook and Amazon. That’s why they hate her.

The Democrats’ plan to take on Big Tech is divided between slipshod legislative and regulatory efforts. Can small bites get the job done, or do we need more sweeping proposals?

The former president’s class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook is a typically ham-fisted grab for power and money. It can die in the courts and still serve him well.

The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.

Through ads and op-eds, Facebook is leaning into the demand for more regulation—but only on its preferred terms. Don’t trust it.

It turns out that the tech company with a commitment to civil liberties is really just committed to profits.

Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.

The Facebook Oversight Board upheld Trump’s ban, but ridiculed the company in the process: “In applying a vague, standardless penalty ... Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities.”

The senator’s new book is a case study in why conservatives struggle to be populists.

The post-Covid economic recovery looks anything but fair. Tax the titans of the pandemic!

What the Apple versus Facebook fight dramatizes is less two competing visions of the internet than which tech titan’s walled garden one might prefer.

“It’s people in 1776 in wool clothes with muskets that it takes a minute to load and shoot.”

The social media giant is considering paying writers to post. Do we want them to?

The government wanted tech giants to share ad profits with media outlets. Mark Zuckerberg retaliated—and it worked. Is the U.S. next?

The tech giant’s war on the Australian government shows that Mark Zuckerberg thinks he’s not only above the law, but powerful enough to bend it to his will.

An anatomy of error

The conspiracy theory has become a theology of right-wing rebellion.

The Facebook Oversight Board should maintain the ban on the former president. Then Congress should regulate the enormous power the platform possesses.

The social media giants that deplatformed Trump claim to be unable to stop the spread of hate, lies, conspiracy theories, and fascistic plots.