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Towfiqu Photography / Getty The Analysts Recording Your Screen Say It’s for Your Own Good
Secretly watching users navigate an app can help companies fix bugs. But it can also be a tool to manipulate customers’ behavior.
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Paul Sakuma / AP I Was Right About Mark Zuckerberg
The author of the book that inspired The Social Network reflects on a decade of Mark Zuckerberg’s career.
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bulentgultek / Getty / The Atlantic Facebook: Where Friendships Go to Never Quite Die
On its 15th anniversary, a look at how the site has changed social life by keeping weak connections on life support forever
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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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Reuters / Lucas Jackson Where Amazon Returns Go to Be Resold by Hustlers
Welcome to the abyss of the “reverse supply chain,” where hope springs eternal.
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Javrock / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Instagram’s Christmas Crackdown
No meme account is safe—not even @God.
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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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Jim Young / Reuters What Google’s CEO Couldn’t Explain to Congress
Sundar Pichai struggled to explain the reality of his company’s power to a House committee convinced of a liberal conspiracy.
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Caitlin O'Hara Finally, the Self-Driving Car
Google’s sister company Waymo built the self-driving car. Now it needs to bring it to life.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters The City of the Future Is a Data-Collection Machine
In Toronto, Alphabet, Google’s parent company, hopes to create the sensor-filled metropolis of tomorrow.
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Alicia Tatone How Hackers Are Stealing High-Profile Instagram Accounts
In the Wild West of “influencer” marketing, there are few protections and plenty of easy marks.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters When the Tech Mythology Collapses
The industry’s fall from grace may feel unprecedented, but we have a model for what happens when a beloved industry fails us.
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Shutterstock Custom Photo Filters Are the New Instagram Gold Mine
How selling Adobe Lightroom presets took the “influencer” world by storm
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Steven Clevenger / Corbis / Getty How YouTube’s Algorithm Really Works
… if you’re not the average YouTube user
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Charles Platiau / Reuters The Facebook Election That Wasn’t
Despite Donald Trump’s vaunted digital efforts, Facebook appears to have played a secondary role in the midterms.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP The Google Walkout Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Thousands of employees around the world left their desks today to protest sexual harassment. But they’re going to have to do a lot more to make lasting change.
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Christophe Morin / IP3 / Getty Facebook Could Be Unrecognizable by 2020
Not even Mark Zuckerberg is sure what it will look like.
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Brian Snyder/Reuters Even If You Hate Zuckerberg Now, You’ll Love Him Later
Just ask Bill Gates how it works.
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Ian Bogost / The Atlantic Another Day, Another Facebook Problem
Facebook has identified, and fixed, an exploit that allowed attackers to gain control of user accounts. These failures are so common and so widespread, it’s becoming hard to even notice them.
