Ian Bogost
How Facebook Works for Trump
Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.
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David Dee Delgado / Getty Revenge of the Power Grid
Infrastructure doesn’t only exist when it fails.
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NBC News / Jacob Drew Vandever / Ian ... Raise Your Hand If You’ve Ever Felt Personally Victimized by This Debate
Political media have abandoned frankness for dankness.
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Isabelle Chauvel / Getty The Infrastructure of Joy
Will building delight into cities make them more cloying or more fun?
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Rogelio V. Solis / AP Electric Cars Still Face a Major Roadblock
To wean drivers off gas vehicles, automakers need to help them develop a whole new understanding of what it means to own a motorcar.
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Boeing Boeing Won’t Rename the 737 Max
“We’re not focused on branding and marketing. We’re focused on safety.”
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Ted Soqui / Getty Free Solo Is Not a Life Lesson
Alex Honnold’s historic climb is too extraordinary to become a story of motivational-poster determination.
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Kwiyeon Ha / Reuters What If Social Media Could Tell You When You’re Mean?
Ditching likes for facial scans could be the way to a kinder, if creepier, online world.
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Mark Peterson / Getty The Problem With Diversity in Computing
Tech’s discriminatory culture might never change, no matter how many women and people of color are invited into the room.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic I Wrote This on a 30-Year-Old Computer
And it was awesome.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Facebook’s Dystopian Definition of ‘Fake’
For the social-media platform, a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi is content, not a phony.
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Brooks Craft / Getty Breaking Up Facebook Isn’t Enough
The Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes calls the company’s influence staggering and dangerous. But his solutions are incomplete and unsatisfying.
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Annie Otzen / Getty What Facebook Could Have Been
A shareable online diary was an obvious idea in the early 2000s. What if a college student’s version hadn’t won out?
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Roman_P / Shutterstock The Meme Terrorists
Violence in synagogues and mosques is kindling for a larger inferno of distrust online.
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Jeff Chiu / AP When a Country Bans Social Media
Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: What if a global media network is impossible?
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Ian Bogost / The Atlantic The Irony of Mueller-Report Profiteering
Ebook promos and paperbacks of the special counsel’s report encapsulate the investigation’s theme: The government is for sale.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Mueller-Industrial Complex Collapses
Newsmakers, pundits, and hustlers banked their future on the investigation taking down the president. The jig is up.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters What the Scammers Got Right About College Admissions
Just because some people allegedly cheated the system doesn’t mean the system is defensible.
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Associated Press Social Media Are a Mass Shooter’s Best Friend
A terrorist attack in New Zealand cast new blame on how technology platforms police content. But global internet services were designed to work this way, and there might be no escape from their grip.
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David Paul Morris / Getty Silicon Valley Wants to Be Destroyed by Aliens
Why the capital of the tech sector needs a monument to its glory
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Courtesy of Artrendex Inc. The AI-Art Gold Rush Is Here
An artificial-intelligence “artist” got a solo show at a Chelsea gallery. Will it reinvent art, or destroy it?
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