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.

The Facebook COO’s denials about the platform’s role in the violence at the Capitol should be the last straw.

Much like mosquitoes or bed bugs, they can hop on and off a host president as needed.

Can the largest media platform in the world ever be made safe for democracy?

Trust-busting isn’t the only way to bring the tech behemoth to heel. The company’s own employees can organize to force Mark Zuckerberg’s hand.

The former colonial power isn’t just a victim of Russian disinformation. It’s waging a similar propaganda campaign in Mali and other countries in the Sahel region.

Amazon’s new fitness bracelet, Halo, will tell you how you’re feeling. That’s scary enough—but imagine what Jeff Bezos will do with that information.