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The Atlantic Facebook Is Hiding the Most Important Misinformation Data
Billions of people have apparently encountered vaccine lies on the platform, but that number means nothing without a denominator.
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Michel Baret / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago
It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now.
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Harold M. Lambert / Getty ; The Atlantic Facebook Cares About Privacy—But Only If You’re an Advertiser
The social giant kicked off researchers studying how political ads can encourage targeted voter suppression, leaving citizens with little insight into how they’re manipulated on the platform.
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Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Capitol Rioters Are Giving Insurrection a Bad Name
Civil society cannot allow mistrust in institutions to become violent rebellion.
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Samuel Corum / Getty / NIH / The … The Amazing Disappearing Election
Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?
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Manu Fernadez / AP This Is So Much Bigger Than Facebook
Data misuse is a feature, not a bug—and it’s plaguing our entire culture.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters A Bright Red Flag for Democracy
Survivors of the Parkland massacre are getting a crash course in civics, and learning that corporations are more responsive to customer concerns than lawmakers are to their constituents.
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Kimberly White / Reuters Facebook Only Cares About Facebook
Whatever Mark Zuckerberg says about human community or his legacy, his company is acting in its own interests—and against the public good.
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Sesame Workshop The Case for a Taxpayer-Supported Version of Facebook
“A public social media platform would have the civic mission of providing us a diverse and global view of the world.”
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Stephen Lam / Reuters The Perils of Using Technology to Solve Other People's Problems
What will it take to design socio-technical systems that actually work?
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Baz Ratner / Reuters Can Bitcoin Be Used For Good?
The cryptocurrency is a powerful tool for early adopters and middle-class entrepreneurs, but it may not provide the opportunities in the developing world that its advocates claim.
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Ally Song / Reuters Beware the Listening Machines
When dolls and friendly robots can listen and respond to what people say, where's the line between personal assistance and mass surveillance?
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Africa Studio/Shutterstock When 'Good Enough' Holds Back New Inventions
Credit cards, banner ads, and fossil fuels are all simply passable business solutions that should be scrapped and replaced.
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Library of Congress The Internet's Original Sin
It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web.
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Reuters YouTube Parody as Politics: How The World Made Pharrell Cry
Remixes from around the world show that what brings us together is more important than what divides us.
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Reddit: A Pre-Facebook Community in a Post-Facebook World
We need a range of social media platforms that connect us in different ways.
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Ethan Zuckerman on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary
"It's incomplete, inaccurate in places, subject to systemic biases.... But it's also one of the wonders of the world."
