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
The Digital Soldiers Taking America’s Forever Wars Online The Digital Soldiers Taking America’s Forever Wars Online
In this online battles pace, victory is fleeting and defeat never final, but the casualties are all too real—of fact and truth, memory and reality.
Sep 14, 2022 / Andy Kroll
Searching for Local Identity in “The Bear” and “Chicago Party Aunt” Searching for Local Identity in “The Bear” and “Chicago Party Aunt”
The FX drama and Netflix animation both attempt to embody the city of Chicago. That’s an increasingly difficult task when the city itself is a jumbled simulacrum of its own past.
Aug 25, 2022 / Ryan Zickgraf
What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator? What’s Life Like for the Content Moderator?
Hanna Bervoets’s novella We Had to Remove This Post attempts to get inside the mind of one the Internet’s frontline workers.
Aug 23, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Joanne McNeil
You Can’t Buy These Books You Can’t Buy These Books
In their attack on libraries, megapublishers roll a Trojan horse into the courts.
Jul 18, 2022 / Maria Bustillos
America’s Lapdog Britain Moves to Extradite Julian Assange America’s Lapdog Britain Moves to Extradite Julian Assange
If President Biden really cared about press freedom, he would have canceled the extradition request months ago.
Jun 24, 2022 / Peter Oborne
First Thought, Best Thought? Not for Elon Musk. First Thought, Best Thought? Not for Elon Musk.
The Hill offloads comment moderation to Facebook and Twitter. What could possibly go wrong?
Jun 2, 2022 / Tom Gogola
Meet the Head of Biden’s New “Disinformation Governing Board” Meet the Head of Biden’s New “Disinformation Governing Board”
Nina Jankowicz is a veteran information warrior. But her “experience” working with StopFake should have set off alarm bells.
May 12, 2022 / Lev Golinkin
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 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web Jennifer Egan’s World Wide Web
Her latest novel tackles a favorite topic of her fiction—the excesses of the Internet and modern technologies.
May 3, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Erin Somers