Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Break Up Big Tech Is Extremely Aggressive. Good. Intelligencer tech writers Max Read and Brian Feldman react to Elizabeth Warren’s aggressive proposal to break up Silicon Valley megaplatforms
Intelligencer Chat: The Ilhan Omar Mess Debating the Merits of a Democratic Resolution Against Anti-Semitism
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Who Pays for Silicon Valley’s Hidden Costs? Magically convenient services and devices are often subsidized by exploitative labor arrangements.
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Feb. 13, 2019
With Social Media Disinformation, What — and Who — Should We Be Afraid Of? We may have more to fear from wealthy donors than from geopolitical adversaries like Russia.
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Feb. 8, 2019
Can Subscriptions Save All Media Companies, or Just the New York Times ? After weeks of grim news out of the media industry, the Times’ revenue numbers are a bright spot.
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Jan. 30, 2019
Facebook Is Going to Have a Supreme Court. Will It Work? Facebook’s new “oversight board” sounds a lot like a judiciary. So where are the other branches?
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Jan. 16, 2019
Facebook Doesn’t Need to Fool You Is the #10YearChallenge meme a conspiracy to steal your data?
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Jan. 9, 2019
Zuckerberg’s 2019 Personal Challenge Is to Explain Why Facebook Is Good Mark Zuckerberg’s series of “public discussions about technology” is more likely to be a series of public defenses of his life’s work.
8 Predictions for What the World Will Look Like in 20 Years Less sex, two dueling internets, and more expert predictions for life in 2039.
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Dec. 26, 2018
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns out, a lot of it, actually.
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Dec. 15, 2018
Why YouTube’s Biggest Star Can’t Be Canceled YouTube megastar PewDiePie keeps accidentally sharing anti-Semitic jokes — and keeps getting more popular. Why?
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Dec. 8, 2018
Did Facebook Cause Riots in France? If you’re blaming the gilets jaunes on Facebook, you might be missing the forest for the trees.
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Dec. 6, 2018
Brett Favre Is a Social Network It sounds nuts to say that anti-Semites took advantage of Brett Favre to spread racist memes. But that’s because you think of Favre as a quarterback.
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Nov. 30, 2018
Why Is Tucker Carlson Mad About Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer? Like the water cycle, the content cycle is a beautiful, natural process that sustains a multitude of organisms at all levels.
The End of the Tech-Industry Omertà Is Silicon Valley’s legendary secretiveness on its way out?
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Nov. 20, 2018
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Nov. 14, 2018
Fake News Isn’t Just a Problem for Facebook. It’s Also a Solution! Having learned about the dangerous effects of “fake news” influence campaigns, Facebook has finally landed on a solution: Create its own.
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Nov. 14, 2018
Fox News’ Silent War on Twitter The network has found a way to treat Twitter with the same bitter contempt it’s always treated the New York Times.
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Nov. 8, 2018
Facebook Stopped Russia. Is That Enough? Facebook’s “misinformation problem” is a lot bigger than Facebook.
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Oct. 22, 2018
Nick Clegg Isn’t Leaving the World of Politics, He’s Reentering It Once you’ve formed a coalition with David Cameron, how bad can one with Mark Zuckerberg really be?
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Oct. 17, 2018
DNA Testing Can’t Tell Us Who We Really Are. It Can Tell the Cops. Like Elizabeth Warren, millions of Americans have taken DNA tests in a search for their heritage, with unintended consequences.
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Oct. 12, 2018
Donald Trump, Kanye West, and the Reign of Human Clickbait Media outlets created “clickbait” to stand out in a crowded environment. What’s the psychological equivalent?
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Oct. 8, 2018
Does Facebook Need a Constitution? Facebook’s gestures toward “free speech” make it sound like a liberal democracy. But where are its checks and balances?
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Aug. 31, 2018
The Rise of Busybody Journalism In “see for myself” reporting, individual sentiment crowds out institutional facts.
Facebook Is Running Out of Humans Facebook stock fell 24 percent overnight not because of political scandal but because there just aren’t enough people for it to grow.
Does Facebook Need a Constitution? Facebook’s gestures toward “free speech” make it sound like a liberal democracy. But where are its checks and balances?
The New Gatekeepers of Silicon Valley Are Getting Played by Conservatives Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is having dinner with conservative activists to “rebuild trust.” But why?
The E.U.’s New Privacy Laws Might Actually Create a Better Internet Data regulation could do more than protect your personal information — it might result in a new, happier internet.
DI Politics Chat: Kanye Goes MAGA Four New York staffers talk about Kanye West’s full-throated endorsement of the Donald Trump and alt-right turn.
The Most Important Things to Understand About Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Cambridge Analytica was using Facebook exactly as Facebook is designed — and that’s the problem.
Talking Basement-Dwellers With Reddit’s New Favorite Philosopher 12 Rules for Life author Jordan Peterson is a sudden celebrity as a tough-love self-help guru.
The Awl and the Hairpin’s Best Stories, Remembered by Their Writers Writers from the two influential blogs pick their favorite stories from the near-decade runs of the Awl and the Hairpin.
Playing Bar Trivia With HQ’s Scott What makes someone a “Quiz Daddy” as opposed to a mere game-show host?
Do You Really Know What Bitcoin Is? Here, our super-simplified explanation — and what to know about the cryptocraze roller coaster.
‘The Russia Story,’ as It Happened on Social Media How the year’s biggest story was encountered in 2017 by rabid Democrats, recalcitrant Republicans, and everyone else on the internet
DI Politics Chat: How Should the Media Cover Nazis? Five New York staffers chatted about that New York Times profile and the broader question of how (and whether) to write about Nazis.
Twitter Should Stop Pretending Twitter keeps getting into trouble because it pretends to be one thing when it is in fact another thing. It should just stop.
Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is? The same company that gives you birthday reminders also helped ensure the integrity of the German elections.
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Sept. 27, 2017
How to Tweet Longer Than 140 Characters Twitter opened up its service to tweets of up to 280 characters. Here’s how to take advantage.
Which Giant Tech Company Is Winning the Race to Be Skynet? Will Amazon, Facebook, or Google be the agent of our destruction?
Melania Trump Just Liked a Tweet About How Much She Hates Her Husband Either Melania has a really dry sense of humor or she has an intern about to get fired.
The Whole World Is Now a Message Board And its moderators are the meme vanguard of the alt-right.
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Beyond Alt: Understanding the New Far Right The extremely reactionary, burn-it-down-radical, newfangled far right.
The Year in Memes We’ve collected one meme for every day in 2016.
Donald Trump Isn’t Just Benefitting From ‘Fake News’ Websites — He Is One The problem of “fake news” isn’t bad actors or profit margins — it’s baked into the platforms themselves.
Does Mark Zuckerberg Use Facebook? The titans of social media are having some trouble grappling with the world-changing effects of their creations.
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