'Men Are Scum'
Inside Facebooks war on hate speech.
The Trauma Floor
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America.
I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life.
It was Hell.
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism
On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are perverting capitalism in a way that undermines personal freedom and corrodes democracy.
The Rise, Lean, And Fall Of Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg
The reality of Silicon Valley is that it’s commerce by any means necessary. And the reality of Sandberg is that she’s excellent at it.
As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants
Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.
"Nothing on This Page Is Real"
How lies become truth in online America.
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
On the lengths Mark Zuckberberg and Sheryl Sandberg have gone to protect their power.
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?
A profile.
When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life
Monika Glennon had one brief exchange with a complete stranger in a Facebook comment section. That stranger destroyed her life.
Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News
Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late.
Inside Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build A Border Wall
How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.
Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
How social media is fanning violence across the globe.
The Cambridge Analytica Files: Meet the Data War Whistleblower
“I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.”
Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
How Facebook Is Killing Comedy
An interview with a Funny or Die writer after the entire editorial team was laid off.
How to Win Founders and Influence Everybody
Margit Wennmachers is Andreessen Horowitz’s secret weapon.
Best Article Politics Tech World
This Country's Leader Shut Down Democracy – With a Little Help From Facebook
Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.
How Facebook’s Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda
Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.
Don't Stop the Presses
Can local news survive?
What Happens When the Government Uses Facebook as a Weapon?
A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”
The Tech Industry’s Gender-Discrimination Problem
The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.
Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?
Examining the future of the massive social media site.
You Are the Product
A critique of Facebook.
Notes From An Emergency
A talk from the re:publica conference in Berlin:
The good part about naming a talk in 2017 ‘Notes from an Emergency’ is that there are so many directions to take it. The emergency I want to talk about is the rise of a vigorous ethnic nationalism in Europe and America. This nationalism makes skillful use of online tools, tools that we believed inherently promoted freedom, to advance an authoritarian agenda.
