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August 16, 2019
Dustin Kurtz
Why Amazon’s Twitter Ambassadors Are So Sad
They're real people, yes—and they're also a window into Amazon's approach to labor.
July 11, 2019
Alex Shephard
Trump Assembles His Gang of Social-Media Deplorables
Thursday's "summit" shows the increasingly paranoid president is desperate for allies who back him unequivocally.
June 3, 2019
Jake Flanagin
How YouTube Became a Breeding Ground for a Diabolical Lizard Cult
A mysterious murder reveals the ways in which the video-sharing site has spread conspiracies of all kinds—very much including those created by rightwing supporters of President Trump.
February 13, 2019
Kia Gregory
How Videos of Police Brutality Traumatize African Americans and Undermine the Search for Justice
February 1, 2019
Una Hajdari
Serbian Journalists Are Under Attack. Does the International Community Care?
Supported by the U.S. and EU, praised at Davos: President Aleksandar Vucic is on a roll. No one seems to want to contemplate the appalling assaults on press freedoms.
January 16, 2019
Jo Livingstone
The Real Villain of Fyre Festival
Two new documentaries take on Billy McFarland and his disastrous music festival. But who's to blame, really?
October 8, 2018
Alex Shephard
Google covered up a data breach out of fear of more government regulation.
August 21, 2018
Alex Shephard
Why Jack Dorsey’s Apology Tour Backfired
The Twitter CEO is creating controversy on a media campaign designed to quell it.
April 24, 2018
Jeet Heer
“We’re Going to See a Lot More Walls”
Ian Bremmer sees Trump's victory, the rise of the far-right in Europe, and more as a backlash to globalism—and he thinks it's going to get worse.
April 11, 2018
Alex Shephard
Mark Zuckerberg’s Trip to the Principal’s Office
The Facebook CEO came to the Senate expecting a beatdown, but escaped with a scolding.
April 4, 2018
Jo Livingstone
The Strange Online Aesthetic of the YouTube Shooting Suspect
What Nasim Najafi Aghdam’s social media content reveals about art and life on the internet
April 3, 2018
MagazineYascha Mounk
Verboten
Germany’s risky law for stopping hate speech on Facebook and Twitter
March 6, 2018
Mark Oppenheimer
The Death of Civility in the Digital Age
I wrote a foolish take on Harvey Weinstein's Judaism, and was mobbed for days on social media. Then I rediscovered the joys of life offline, where humans treat each other with decency.
February 15, 2018
Jo Livingstone
America just had its first social-media school shooting.
January 31, 2018
Alex Shephard
Facebook and Google Won’t Save Local News
There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the two giants' latest attempts to fill a void in local reporting.
January 26, 2018
Alex Shephard
The Case Against Facebook’s Neutrality
How the social network's laissez-faire ideology plunged it into crisis
November 16, 2017
Lauren Michele Jackson
Does Twitter Really Want to Solve Its Harassment Problem?
The company has issued new guidelines and removed verifications for white supremacists. But it's unclear whether it can change its culture.
August 17, 2017
Jacob Silverman
Can Tech Stand Against White Supremacy?
The alt-right relies on social media to spread hate, and Silicon Valley can stop them. Will they?
April 28, 2017
Will Leitch
The Circle: A Complete Fiasco of a Movie
The film, inspired by Dave Eggers's novel, has a lot of things it wants to say about technology. But it hasn’t thought any of them through.
April 19, 2017
Jo Livingstone
We Are Living in a Golden Age of Reality Television
The turn toward niche obsessions reflects America in all its humble, variegated glory. But at what cost?

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