Taking back our privacy - Profile of Moxie Marlinspike, founder of Signal privacy Article 8807 words 9 votes
Why Facebook can't fix itself - The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation, but the company's strategy seems focused on managing perception of the problem instead of addressing it facebook social media Article 7356 words 14 votes
The flashing warning of QAnon: The embrace of apocalyptic memes is a symptom of hyperconnected societies in distress internet Article 1383 words 9 votes
The supply of disinformation will soon be infinite: Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort to be effective, but now artificial intelligence could take them to a whole new level Article 9 votes
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem privacy social media Article 28 088 words 18 votes
How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history Article published May 23 2016 6 votes
The women making conspiracy theories beautiful: How the domestic aesthetics of Instagram repackage QAnon for the masses social media Article 2946 words 12 votes
Disappearance of multiple Saudi Arabian dissidents tied to Twitter data accessed in 2015 by employees allegedly spying for the government social media privacy Article 7 votes
CyberBunker: The "bulletproof web hosting" company based in a German Cold War bunker that became a dark-web empire Article 11 053 words 10 votes
Lawyers demand US Military stop violating free speech on Twitch social media Article 1119 words 10 votes
I have cancer and now my Facebook feed is full of "alternative care" ads social media facebook Article 991 words 36 votes
Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco? security Article 2853 words 10 votes
Can our electronic ballots be both secret and secure? A mathematician's quest to make American elections more trustworthy security Article 6310 words 4 votes
Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the future of online speech - The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated social media facebook Article 4674 words 8 votes
Shows of support for racial justice from social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don’t address the way the platforms have been weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs social media google facebook Article 1886 words 11 votes
Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest US President Donald Trump posts facebook social media Article 894 words 16 votes
US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election facebook social media Article 2696 words 10 votes
Interview with Musk on his Twitter usage, selling off his possessions, and the historic upcoming launch Article 7 votes
Welcome to the age of privacy nihilism privacy internet Article 2873 words, published Aug 23 2018 13 votes
The people who are keeping the internet running during COVID and how they're doing it internet Article 4171 words 11 votes
Nearly two years after Europe's GDPR privacy law came into effect, supporters are frustrated by lack of enforcement, poor funding, limited staff resources and stalling tactics by the tech companies privacy Article 10 votes
In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the US was wrong internet Article 2800 words 6 votes
Magic Leap cuts half of jobs (about 1000) in major restructuring, plans to focus on enterprise business instead of consumer Article 7 votes
The coronavirus has changed the way Americans use the internet internet social media Article 855 words 9 votes
Google will move its summer internship program to a virtual format this year google Article 405 words 7 votes