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Illustration by Tyler Comrie The Supreme Court Seems Poised to Decide an Imaginary Case
A dispute about a stalking conviction has morphed into something very different—with potentially dangerous results.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty The Cold Dose of Reality Awaiting Elon Musk
Twitter’s new owner faces a difficult regulatory landscape around the world.
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Jonathan Newton / The Washington Post / Getty Running Twitter Is Going to Disappoint Elon Musk
Social media’s newest billionaire overlord is in for a surprise.
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Miguel Medina / Getty 1 Billion TikTok Users Understand What Congress Doesn’t
The video-sharing app avoids scrutiny because politicians don’t take it seriously.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Michael Zwahlen … Somebody Has to Do It
Facebook’s made-up court is filling an enormous legal void.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic What Facebook Did for Chauvin’s Trial Should Happen All the Time
If the social-media giant can discourage hate speech and incitements to violence on a special occasion, it can do so all the time.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Trump Is Banned. Who Is Next?
Tech giants must not treat their crackdown on the president’s social accounts as an edge case. The social web should be different now.
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The Atlantic The Year That Changed the Internet
In 2020, the need to contain misinformation about COVID-19 pushed Facebook and Twitter into a role they never wanted—arbiters of the truth.
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Getty / The Atlantic Trump Is a Problem That Twitter Cannot Fix
When a duly elected president is bent on spreading misinformation, tech companies can rein him in only so much.
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The Atlantic The Internet’s Titans Make a Power Grab
Facebook and other platforms insisted that they didn’t want to be “arbiters of truth.” The coronavirus changed their mind overnight.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters Finally, Facebook Put Someone in Charge
Deciding which postings to take down is a difficult and unpopular job. So Mark Zuckerberg is outsourcing it.
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Gerry Shih / Reuters The Lawless Way to Disable 8chan
The decision to disable an infamous message board fell to Matthew Prince, an internet executive who is deeply uncomfortable with his own power.
