America Is No Longer the Home of the Free Internet
How the United States learned to love internet censorship
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Illustration by The Atlantic Facebook Is Hiding the Most Important Misinformation Data
Billions of people have apparently encountered vaccine lies on the platform, but that number means nothing without a denominator.
The Atlantic Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago
It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now.
Michel Baret / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Facebook Cares About Privacy—But Only If You’re an Advertiser
The social giant kicked off researchers studying how political ads can encourage targeted voter suppression, leaving citizens with little insight into how they’re manipulated on the platform.
Harold M. Lambert / Getty ; The Atlantic The Capitol Rioters Are Giving Insurrection a Bad Name
Civil society cannot allow mistrust in institutions to become violent rebellion.
Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Amazing Disappearing Election
Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?
Samuel Corum / Getty / NIH / The Atlantic This Is So Much Bigger Than Facebook
Data misuse is a feature, not a bug—and it’s plaguing our entire culture.
Manu Fernadez / AP A Bright Red Flag for Democracy
Survivors of the Parkland massacre are getting a crash course in civics, and learning that corporations are more responsive to customer concerns than lawmakers are to their constituents.
Jonathan Drake / Reuters Facebook Only Cares About Facebook
Whatever Mark Zuckerberg says about human community or his legacy, his company is acting in its own interests—and against the public good.
Kimberly White / Reuters The Case for a Taxpayer-Supported Version of Facebook
“A public social media platform would have the civic mission of providing us a diverse and global view of the world.”
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