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July 16, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Who’s Afraid of Lina Khan? (All the Right People.)
The new FTC commissioner has the authority, instincts, and acumen to meaningfully rein in the power of companies like Facebook and Amazon. That’s why they hate her.
July 9, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Biden Wants to Tame Big Tech With a Thousand Paper Cuts
The Democrats’ plan to take on Big Tech is divided between slipshod legislative and regulatory efforts. Can small bites get the job done, or do we need more sweeping proposals?
July 7, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Trump’s Social Media Lawsuit Is Doomed to Fail (and Work Exactly as Planned)
The former president’s class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook is a typically ham-fisted grab for power and money. It can die in the courts and still serve him well.
June 15, 2021
Jacob Silverman
The Citizen App’s Gamification of Vigilantism
The crime-reporting app has big plans: live broadcasts, for-hire private security details, and a growing user base of freaked-out customers. It’s building a paranoid, profitable future.
June 7, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Even Donald Trump Knows Bitcoin Is a Scam
Bitcoin provides entreé to a wildcat market dominated by fraudsters. The ex-president clearly recognizes his milieu.
June 4, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Finally Decides Your Worst Uncle and Donald Trump Deserve the Same Content Moderation
The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.
June 2, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Want to Stop Ransomware Attacks? Ban Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies.
Hackers extorted millions from Colonial Pipeline, and now they’ve struck the meatpacking giant JBS. There’s one clear way to prevent future attacks.
May 31, 2021
Lilah Burke
The Last Thing We Need Is an Uber for Off-Duty Cops
Private businesses are paying police big bucks to work during their off-hours. Now a slew of start-ups are looking for a piece of that action.
May 28, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Amazon Wants to Eat Health Care Next
The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it.
May 24, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Facebook Now Says It’s the Solution to the Crises It Created
Through ads and op-eds, Facebook is leaning into the demand for more regulation—but only on its preferred terms. Don’t trust it.
May 24, 2021
Magazine
Dan Xin Huang
China Is Proud of Its Covid Response. But Taiwan’s Was Better.
How the island nation charted a path between Chinese authoritarianism and Western chaos
May 19, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Bitcoin Keeps Falling, but Everything Is Fine Among the Crypto True Believers
As Bitcoin’s price fell by up to 30 percent, its partisans went on Clubhouse and Twitter to offer reassurances and advice to “go outside, go exercise—just don’t follow the swings.”
May 18, 2021
Alex Shephard
Apple Cares More About Appeasing China Than It Does About Protecting Your Privacy
It turns out that the tech company with a commitment to civil liberties is really just committed to profits.
May 13, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Can Elon Musk’s Bitcoin Betrayal Expose the Grift of Cryptocurrency?
The Tesla executive’s reversal affirms that Bitcoin is an environmentally wasteful multilevel marketing scheme. But the true believers won’t hear it.
May 12, 2021
Josh Sklar
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Jacob Silverman
I Was a Facebook Content Moderator. I Quit in Disgust.
Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.
May 10, 2021
Jacob Silverman
What If Dictators and Autocrats Learn to Love Clubhouse, Too?
The popular chat app is exploding in popularity in some Middle Eastern countries. Can it keep its users safe?
May 5, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Even Facebook’s Handpicked “Supreme Court” Thinks Its Policies Are a Joke
The Facebook Oversight Board upheld Trump’s ban, but ridiculed the company in the process: “In applying a vague, standardless penalty ... Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities.”
May 3, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Forget Tech Bro Fantasies of Self-Driving Cars and Just Invest in Buses Already
Lyft and Uber’s autonomous vehicle hype has far outstripped progress. Let’s put our hopes, and our money, elsewhere.
April 30, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Tech Giants’ Obscene Pandemic Profits Are Begging to Be Taxed
The post-Covid economic recovery looks anything but fair. Tax the titans of the pandemic!
April 21, 2021
Jacob Silverman
Microsoft and Big Tech Can’t Distance Themselves From the Police Violence They Fuel
Tech companies praised the Derek Chauvin conviction, but their products underwrite the kind of impunity and overstep they claim to oppose.
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