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Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan is a professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2018).

January 2020

  • ‘Shaming the Times works better than threatening the Times.’

    The New York Times ran a disturbing op-ed. But the backlash misses the mark

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
    Bret Stephens’ article was ridiculous, eugenicist garbage. But calls to boycott the newspaper won’t help

November 2019

  • FILE PHOTO: A combination photo from files of Facebook Google and Twitter logos<br>FILE PHOTO: Facebook, Google and Twitter logos are seen in this combination photo from Reuters files. REUTERS/File Photo

    Digital democracy will face its greatest test in 2020

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
  • FILE PHOTO: Facebook CEO Zuckerberg testifies about cryptocurrency Libra at House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington<br>FILE PHOTO: Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing examining the company’s plan to launch a digital currency on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott/File Photo

    Surprised about Mark Zuckerberg's secret meeting with Trump? Don't be

    Siva Vaidhyanathan

October 2019

  • Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses the audience in Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service in Washington<br>Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses the audience on “the challenges of protecting free speech while combating hate speech online, fighting misinformation, and political data privacy and security,” at a forum hosted by Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) and the McCourt School of Public Policy in Washington, U.S., October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

    Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand free speech in the 21st century

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
    Zuckerberg’s unsophisticated thoughts on free speech generated a manifesto that can only be called incoherent

August 2019

  • In Blinded by the Light, Javed’s life is transformed when a friend introduces him to the music of Bruce Springsteen.

    A world overrun by white nationalists needs a good rock’n’roll film

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
  • TOPSHOT-US-POLITICS-TRUMP<br>TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump speaks to the press while walking to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, on August 2, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

    From Trump to Fox News to 8chan: the web of white supremacist rhetoric is wide

    Siva Vaidhyanathan

July 2019

  • FILE PHOTO: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing in Washington<br>FILE PHOTO: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing regarding the company’s use and protection of user data on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 11, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

    Billion-dollar fines can't stop Google and Facebook. That's peanuts for them

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
  • ‘Russian propaganda did not inject unfamiliar thought into American politics. It just amplified latent radicalism already flowing at the margins of society.’

    Facebook is ripe for exploitation – again – in 2020

    Siva Vaidhyanathan

June 2019

  • Smartphone screen with Facebook app icon

    Facebook's Libra launch will extend its global domination

    Cryptocurrency could wipe out many businesses and further concentrate corporate power

April 2019

  • Among the five social media platforms with more than one billion users, Facebook owns four of them: Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram.

    Regulating Facebook will be one of the greatest challenges in human history

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
    Countries will need a creative and bold approach to address the social media giant with the power and money to absorb meager fines.

March 2019

  • London-based consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was found to have acquired data on more than 87 million Facebook users.

    Facebook's privacy meltdown after Cambridge Analytica is far from over

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
  • Mark Zuckerberg<br>FILE - In this April 10, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. Zuckerberg said Facebook will start to emphasize new privacy-shielding messaging services, a shift apparently intended to blunt both criticism of the company’s data handling and potential antitrust action. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

    Facebook’s new move isn't about privacy. It’s about domination

    Siva Vaidhyanathan

February 2019

  • ‘The fact is that the structure and function of Facebook is antithetic to the ideology of the internet.’

    Dear Mr Zuckerberg: the problem isn't the internet, it's Facebook

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
    ‘Driven by a set of ideals and some clever code, you built a money machine that has accumulated remarkable influence’

December 2018

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    Violating our privacy is in Facebook's DNA

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
    The latest scandal to hit Facebook is shocking. But the deeper story is that Facebook’s position is more secure than we feared

July 2018

  • (FILES) In this photograph taken on May 14, 2012, an Indian youth wearing a t-shirt with a Facebook logo walks through a vegetable market in Mumbai. India’s top court on March 24, 2015, has struck down a controversial law that made posting “offensive” comments online a crime punishable by jail, after a long campaign by defenders of free speech. The Supreme Court said the 2009 amendment to India’s Information Technology Act known as section 66A was unconstitutional and a restriction on freedom of speech. AFP PHOTO/Indranil MUKHERJEE/FILESINDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images

    The panic over Facebook's stock is absurd. It's simply too big to fail

    Siva Vaidhyanathan
    Despite some critics’ glee at the latest earnings report, the planet’s most powerful business remains unstoppable
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