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May 18, 2021
Alex Shephard
Apple Cares More About Appeasing China Than It Does About Protecting Your Privacy
It turns out that the tech company with a commitment to civil liberties is really just committed to profits.
May 13, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Can Elon Musk’s Bitcoin Betrayal Expose the Grift of Cryptocurrency?
The Tesla executive’s reversal affirms that Bitcoin is an environmentally wasteful multilevel marketing scheme. But the true believers won’t hear it.
May 12, 2021
Josh Sklar
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Jacob Silverman
I Was a Facebook Content Moderator. I Quit in Disgust.
Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.
May 10, 2021
Jacob Silverman
What If Dictators and Autocrats Learn to Love Clubhouse, Too?
The popular chat app is exploding in popularity in some Middle Eastern countries. Can it keep its users safe?
May 5, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Even Facebook’s Handpicked “Supreme Court” Thinks Its Policies Are a Joke
The Facebook Oversight Board upheld Trump’s ban, but ridiculed the company in the process: “In applying a vague, standardless penalty ... Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities.”
May 3, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Forget Tech Bro Fantasies of Self-Driving Cars and Just Invest in Buses Already
Lyft and Uber’s autonomous vehicle hype has far outstripped progress. Let’s put our hopes, and our money, elsewhere.
April 30, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Tech Giants’ Obscene Pandemic Profits Are Begging to Be Taxed
The post-Covid economic recovery looks anything but fair. Tax the titans of the pandemic!
April 21, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Microsoft and Big Tech Can’t Distance Themselves From the Police Violence They Fuel
Tech companies praised the Derek Chauvin conviction, but their products underwrite the kind of impunity and overstep they claim to oppose.
April 20, 2021
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Jacob Silverman
Cryptocurrencies Are the Next Frontier for the Surveillance State
Countries are launching digital currencies to rival Bitcoin—and opening up new ways to snoop on their citizens in the process.
April 19, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Elon Musk Wants to Move Fast and Break Space
SpaceX’s Starlink project would add thousands of satellites to a very crowded sky.
April 9, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Twitter Is Enabling Saudi Arabia’s Brutal Crackdown on Dissent
The jailing of a dissident and two lawsuits reveal Twitter’s complicity with MBS’s dictatorship.
April 5, 2021
Jacob Silverman
How a Bunch of Revolutionary War Reenactors Got Caught Up in Facebook’
“It’s people in 1776 in wool clothes with muskets that it takes a minute to load and shoot.”
April 2, 2021
Magazine
Sarah Leonard
How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America
The immense power of Jeff Bezos’s empire reveals a country that has been falling apart for quite some time.
March 23, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Is This Q?
A new HBO documentary investigates the first family of QAnon
March 16, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Has Found a New Way to Ruin Media
The social media giant is considering paying writers to post. Do we want them to?
March 10, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Trophy Homes and $2.5 Million Tweets: How the Idle Rich Spent Their Pandemic Year
The Covid-era mania for cryptocurrencies and digital tokens shows how bored elites have already bought everything.
March 8, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The Sad Implosion of Google’s Ethical A.I.
The surveillance-capitalist giant fired some of its most popular researchers—and revealed its true colors in the process.
March 1, 2021
Timothy Noah
Biden’s Support for Unionizing Amazon Is a BFD
A union election is underway at the company’s warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama—and the president made clear where he stands.
March 1, 2021
Kyle Paoletta
The FinTech Industry Wants to Give Desperate Workers an Advance on Their Next Paycheck. It’s a Trap.
Employers love so-called earned-wage access apps. Their employees, not so much.
February 23, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Just Successfully Bullied the Sovereign Nation of Australia
The government wanted tech giants to share ad profits with media outlets. Mark Zuckerberg retaliated—and it worked. Is the U.S. next?
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