Zeynep Tufekci
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Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Trump Is Doing All of This for Zuckerberg
The new executive order targeting social-media companies isn’t really about Twitter.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic This Social-Media Mob Was Good
The online rage at Amy Cooper could prove to be a powerful deterrent.
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Dale De La Rey / Getty How Hong Kong Did It
With the government flailing, the city’s citizens decided to organize their own coronavirus response.
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Spencer Platt/Getty The Real Reason to Wear a Mask
Much of the confusion around masks stems from the conflation of two very different uses.
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The WHO Shouldn’t Be a Plaything for Great Powers
Trump’s defunding ploy will only make the organization’s problems worse.
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Matt Dunham / AP Keep the Parks Open
Public green spaces are good for the immune system and the mind—and they can be rationed to allow for social distancing.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Don’t Believe the COVID-19 Models
That’s not what they’re for.
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Christophe Ena / AP It Wasn’t Just Trump Who Got It Wrong
America’s coronavirus response failed because we didn’t understand the complexity of the problem.
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Aly Song / Reuters How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw
China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.
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Jordan Gale / The New York Times / … Who Needs the Russians?
Don’t blame shadowy foreign hackers for the chaos in Iowa. Blame Shadow’s caucus app.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters The Hong Kong Protesters Aren’t Driven by Hope
“We might as well go down fighting.”
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Nicolas Asfour / Pool via Reuters Are China's Tantrums Signs of Strength or Weakness?
China is supposed to be savvy. So why is it throwing a fit about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat?
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The Media Needs to Stop Inspiring Copycat Murders. Here's How.
After a wave of teen suicides in the 1980s, news outlets began reporting on these deaths more cautiously. Similar guidelines could help prevent more shooting sprees.
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Social Media's Small, Positive Role in Human Relationships
It's just one factor in modern life that can increase connection in a world divided by the vagaries of capitalism, the disengagement of television, and the isolation of suburban sprawl.
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If We Built a Safer Nuclear Reactor, How Would We Know?
The question is not whether nuclear power has downsides, which it clearly does, but how to evaluate its potential evolution
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Delusions Aside, the Net's Potential Is Real
In his new book, Evgeny Morozov challenges the intellectual laziness that characterizes so many analyses of the Internet's impact
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Wikileaks Exposes Internet's Dissent Tax, not Nerd Supremacy
A sociologist of technology takes on Jaron Lanier's recent Atlantic essay
