A Tiny Outrage Machine, Sucking the Exhaust From a Giant One
You can’t even fight a social network without a social network.
Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago
It was terrible then, and it’s terrible now.
The Art of the Boyfriend ‘Soft Launch’
In the age of Instagram, starting a new relationship means coming up with a public-relations strategy.
Gossip Bloggers Caught Canoodling With QAnon
Is it ever okay to speculate that Hollywood celebrities are drinking the blood of children?
How Facebook Fails 90 Percent of Its Users
Internal documents show the company routinely placing public-relations, profit, and regulatory concerns over user welfare. And if you think it’s bad here, look beyond the U.S.
‘History Will Not Judge Us Kindly’
Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it.
Stop Shopping
America needs you to buy less junk.
People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.
The Metaverse Is Bad
It is not a world in a headset but a fantasy of power.
Slackers of the World, Unite!
Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t
What Slack Does for Women
For years, women have had to control their voice, posture, and demeanor in the workplace. With Slack, we don’t have to worry about any of that.
A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.
Americans Had It Easy During the Facebook Outage
WhatsApp is the digital scaffolding for much of the global South.
Rivian Wants to Be the Apple of Electric Pickup Trucks
Or maybe the Patagonia
A Day Without Facebook
The social giant’s temporary disappearance means absolutely nothing.
Peyton and Eli Manning Can’t Save the NFL
The retired quarterbacks are giving Monday Night Football a glow up. But the league needs to do more than that to connect with Gen Z.
Misinformation Is About to Get So Much Worse
A conversation with the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
The Largest Autocracy on Earth
Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.
Tucker Carlson Makes a Play for the Barbz
Nicki Minaj fans are defending her vaccine hesitancy, and the right is using it as a recruitment opportunity.
The Al Capone Approach to Anti-vaxxers
The social-media giants are going after vaccine liars and conspiracists for technicalities. Is there a better way to protect the truth?
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