Alexis C. Madrigal
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Leah Millis / Reuters What We Know About Facebook’s Latest Data Scandal
A new report raises questions about just how much Facebook data phone manufacturers could access.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore
Telephone culture is disappearing.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters When Did TV Watching Peak?
It’s probably later than you think, and long after the internet became widespread.
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National Transportation Safety Board Uber’s Self-Driving Car Didn’t Malfunction, It Was Just Bad
There were no software glitches or sensor breakdowns that led to a fatal crash, merely poor object recognition, emergency planning, system design, testing methodology, and human operation.
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European Parliament A Belgian Legislator Berates and Scoffs at Mark Zuckerberg
In a hearing today, European parliamentarian Guy Verhofstadt said many of the things that Facebook haters have been thinking.
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AP / Nam Y. Huh When You’re Not Just the Product on Facebook, but the Manager
Facebook wants more of its users to join "meaningful groups," but there can be questionable incentives for the people running them.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Will Facebook's New Ad-Transparency Tools Protect Democracy?
A report has found the tools have significant problems, but the company’s response portends improvement.
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Jeenah Moon / Reuters The Strange Case of AT&T's Payments to Michael Cohen
Why did AT&T pay the same company used to funnel hush money to Stormy Daniels?
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters Service Workers Forced to Act Like Robots Meet Their Match
Surprise! It’s a robot that pretends to be human, courtesy of Google.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic There Is Only One Thing IMHO Can Mean
And it ain’t “in my honest opinion.”
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Peter Nicholls / Reuters How Facebook Became the Tech Company People Love to Hate
The platform has allowed our physical and digital selves to uncomfortably merge.
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Reuters/Stephen Lam Even Amid Scandal, Facebook Is Unstoppable
On the eve of its big annual conference, things are looking up for the world’s most profitable advertising company.
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J. Countess / Getty The Evidence Is Not With Joy Reid
The anchor's claim that her blog was hacked to include homophobic posts looks implausible.
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Jose Gomez / Reuters What You Can't Say on Facebook
A new document reveals the scope of Facebook’s power—and a new commitment to transparency about it.
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Arindam Dey / Getty An Indian Politician Claimed Ancient Hindus Invented the Internet
… then the Indian internet laughed at him.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Most Important Exchange of the Zuckerberg Hearing
The Facebook CEO’s defense of data collection is slipperier than it seems.
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REUTERS/Leah Millis Mark Zuckerberg Is Halfway to Scot-Free
In a confrontation of technological power with political power, the Senate could not grapple with the way Facebook works.
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Uber 3 Million Uber Drivers Are About to Get a New Boss
Inside Uber’s latest attempt to rebuild its app for drivers, the biggest experiment in the gig economy.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters Zuckerberg Says Balancing Facebook's Business and Community Is 'Quite Easy'
It’s not about the business, the head of Facebook maintains, but about the conflicts among users.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters 'Most' People on Facebook May Have Had Their Accounts Scraped
Facebook announced yet another way that data leaked from the platform.
