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What I Learned From the Darkest Corners of the Internet What I Learned From the Darkest Corners of the Internet
There’s no path out of our strange, increasingly conspiratorial moment, filled with viral lies and rampant disinformation, without rewriting the algorithms governing our lives.
Dec 27, 2022 / Andy Kroll
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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
![Elon Musk Buys Social Network Twitter](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/GettyImages-1393786687.jpg)
Elon Musk Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Media Elon Musk Is Everything That’s Wrong With the Media
The aspiring Twitter impresario has taken the major problems of the industry and kicked them into overdrive.
Dec 13, 2022 / Chris Lehmann
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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
![I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You.](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/shutterstock_1362790352.jpg)
I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You. I’m Not Leaving Twitter. Neither Should You.
Twitter is an effective tool for challenging the status quo and powerful people and institutions. That’s why Elon Musk snatched it up.
Nov 16, 2022 / Editorial / Olayemi Olurin
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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](https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/selfie-twitter-ss.jpg)
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 / Back Talk / Alexis Grenell
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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
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The Prying Eyes of Social Media The Prying Eyes of Social Media
The lack of regulation of online platforms puts our private lives up for sale.
Sep 20, 2022 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams
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We Cannot Rely on Billionaires to Create Necessary Guardrails on Social Media We Cannot Rely on Billionaires to Create Necessary Guardrails on Social Media
Nothing makes the case for public ownership of online public spaces like a billionaire proposing to buy one.
May 3, 2022 / no-paywall / Katrina vanden Heuvel