Ian Bogost
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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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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Getty Emoji Don't Mean What They Used To
The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration. It’s lost some expressive power in the process.
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Yves Herman / Reuters Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy
The company enables the surveillance that supposedly offends its values.
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Ben Margot / AP FaceTime Is Eroding Trust in Tech
Privacy paranoiacs have been totally vindicated.
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KC Noland / YouTube Stop Trusting Viral Videos
A controversial video of Catholic students clashing with American Indians appeared to tell a simple truth. A second video called that story into question. But neither shows what truly happened.
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Leon Neal / Getty Amazon Ruined Online Shopping
America’s largest internet store is so big, and so bewildering, that buyers often have no idea what they’re going to get.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Trump Is Totally Cavalier About His Use of Personal Technology
But what about her emails?
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Eric Risberg / AP Embracing Apple’s Boring Future
The company’s most exciting years may be behind it, but that’s okay.
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Alex Wong / Getty How Ted Lieu Became Google’s Accidental Champion
The Democratic lawmaker’s memorable moment during Sundar Pichai’s congressional testimony helped one party: Google.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP What It Really Means to Be the Adult in the Room
Sheryl Sandberg, the “responsible” grown-up at Facebook, had one job: Make the company more and more money.
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Evan Vucci / AP Video Doesn’t Capture Truth
Like text and audio, it can be manipulated and interpreted for political ends.
