The Growing Political Power of TikTok The Growing Political Power of TikTok
As Twitter loses its most active users and with young people favoring short-form video, the role TikTok plays in elections is likely only going to get larger.
Jan 25, 2023 / StudentNation / Sofia Andrade
Does Russian Journalism Have a Future? Does Russian Journalism Have a Future?
Reflections of a glasnost-era veteran.
Jan 11, 2023 / Nadezhda Azhgikhina
Access to Journalism Is a Human Right Access to Journalism Is a Human Right
Corporate overlords and repressive governments want to control the Internet. But information belongs to us.
Jan 10, 2023 / Maria Bustillos
How the GOP Learned to Hate the FBI How the GOP Learned to Hate the FBI
And why it matters that Democrats and Republicans have switched positions on the national security state.
Dec 30, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Twitter Files? Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Twitter Files?
Just because the mainstream media decided to ignore them doesn’t mean the files aren’t newsworthy—or important.
Dec 20, 2022 / Ross Barkan
The Twitter User Taking on the Chinese Government The Twitter User Taking on the Chinese Government
“Teacher Li” has become a one-person news outlet and a crucial source of information about the protests in China for those both inside and outside the Great Firewall.
Dec 6, 2022 / Han Zhang
Elon Musk Doesn’t Understand Twitter’s Real Value Elon Musk Doesn’t Understand Twitter’s Real Value
For all its limitations—and there are many—Twitter is the closest thing the world has to a transnational public sphere.
Nov 15, 2022 / Nanjala Nyabola
How Social Media Erases Context How Social Media Erases Context
Indiscriminate sharing has dissolved the boundaries between what we say and when and where we say it.
Nov 1, 2022 / Column / Alexis Grenell
Elon Musk’s Big Twitter Adventure Will End in Disaster Elon Musk’s Big Twitter Adventure Will End in Disaster
The good news is that the plutocrat’s move to turn a social media platform into a forum for the far right probably won't work.
Oct 31, 2022 / Jeet Heer
Propaganda’s Worst Enemy Propaganda’s Worst Enemy
Samizdat 2.0 is here, and so is the hope of change in Russians’ mindset.
Oct 28, 2022 / Stanislav Kucher