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April 5, 2022
Alex Shephard
Twitter’s Elon Musk Trap
The billionaire and self-declared “free speech absolutist” now owns 9.2 percent of the social network.
February 22, 2022
MagazinePam Segall
Donald Trump’s Dead Tweets
The former president’s tweets are gone. What does that mean for the record of online journalism and future historians?
October 25, 2021
Alex Shephard
Facebook Is Even Worse Than Anyone Imagined
A trove of internal documents reveal a company that is willfully spreading misinformation and hate in pursuit of profit and growth.
October 21, 2021
Alex Shephard
Do You Want to Get in on the Ground Floor of Trump’s Dumb New Social Media Site?
The former president has come up with a way to get back into the limelight and make a quick buck.
August 30, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The “Metaverse” Is Facebook’s Soulless Virtual Vision for the Future of Life and Work
Mark Zuckerberg’s overhyped hybrid virtual/physical world is a distraction from the company’s real problems—and ours.
August 23, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The CEO Trying to Build a White, Christian, Secessionist Tech Industry
Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, represents the new, even more right-wing alternative to Silicon Valley.
August 17, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Wants to Ban the Taliban. It’s Another War That Can’t Be Won.
The Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan is an extreme, though not entirely unique, test case for the power and the peril of these platforms.
August 3, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Can Olivia Rodrigo and TikTok Save Us From the Delta Variant?
The White House is putting money into pro-vaccine influencer campaigns while dropping the ball on essential efforts to save Americans from eviction and poverty.
July 19, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Is Designed to Spread Covid Misinformation
The White House wants Facebook to crack down on anti-vax posts, but that would require the social media giant to transform on a fundamental level.
July 7, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Trump’s Social Media Lawsuit Is Doomed to Fail (and Work Exactly as Planned)
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.
May 10, 2021
Jacob Silverman
What If Dictators and Autocrats Learn to Love Clubhouse, Too?
The popular chat app is exploding in popularity in some Middle Eastern countries. Can it keep its users safe?
April 29, 2021
Matt Ford
Tucker Carlson Is Deadly Boring
Fox News’s prime-time star has long been a dull racist. Why is the mainstream media only realizing it now?
February 11, 2021
Scott W. Stern
Lauren Oyler Is a Tough Critic of Contemporary Fiction. Can Her Novel Do Better?
On “Fake Accounts” and the problems of millennial fiction
February 8, 2021
MagazineChristopher Caldwell
Can There Ever Be a Working-Class Republican Party?
The party of the country club tries to embrace a new egalitarian economic agenda.
February 1, 2021
MagazineMelissa Gira Grant
QAnon and the Cultification of the American Right
The conspiracy theory has become a theology of right-wing rebellion.
January 22, 2021
Alex Shephard
Don’t Fire People for Dumb Tweets
The Niskanen Center bowed to fake outrage from bad-faith right-wing trolls when it fired Will Wilkinson.
January 15, 2021
Laura Bassett
All That’s Left of Trumpism Is Hilariously Stupid, Deadly Serious Social Media Stunts
MAGA Nation’s thirst for viral clout is going to get more people killed.
January 14, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The Incredible Power and Learned Helplessness of Twitter and Facebook
The social media giants that deplatformed Trump claim to be unable to stop the spread of hate, lies, conspiracy theories, and fascistic plots.
January 5, 2021
MagazineSiva Vaidhyanathan
Making Sense of the Facebook Menace
Can the largest media platform in the world ever be made safe for democracy?
November 17, 2020
Alex Shephard
Barack Obama, Media Critic
His book publicity tour has been full of critiques of the media that reveal a lot about the former president himself.

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