With tech policy, sorting the world into democratic and authoritarian buckets is far trickier than it soun...
For now, Facebook has walked back its clumsy surprise ban on news content. But the social media giant has made clear: It can take news away aga...
There are real flaws in the country’s proposed law to make platforms pay for news, but the social media giant’s protest doesn’t address th...
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An influential study relies too heavily on news media reporting—which has only recently acknowledged the social media manipulation problem at a...
The first generation of girls to grow up on the internet are now parents themselves. That might mean a new approach to sex educati...
Yes, it's creepy when companies can track your every move. But that's not the only probl...
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A lack of police transparency highlights how citizens need to remain vigilant to take back control over their priva...
The history of home cultivation methods of Psilocybe is more connected to early internet culture than you'd thi...
A workplace has its own informal cardinal directions: elevatorward, kitchenward, bathroomward. It's a map we sha...
Dance and robotics rarely overlap. But if they did, it could make robots seem less like industrial contrivances, and more like empathetic bein...
Disillusioned after Biden was sworn in, conspiracy theorists could now be swayed back to reality by conservatives and family members—or toward darker fring...
Gimmicky message services like Cameo treat goodwill as a friendly contagion, something anyone can catch and spread. Just don’t let the money run o...
Internet regulators around the world conflate the two, which strains international relatio...
Claiming that deplatforming racists violates First Amendment rights shows a distorted understanding of how speech, race, and power work onli...
Ten years ago, democracy protesters used social media to organize against an oppressor. But ultimately, the powerful came out ahe...
From coded memes to deepfake porn, abusive disinformation campaigns are sliding past moderation tools. Platforms, Congress, and employers need to help women fight ba...