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Accelerationism has its roots in academia. But experts believe it has played a significant role in the current wave of extremist violence There’s no meaningful use of the term “accelerationism” or attention paid to Nick […]

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra says that Facebook has refused to comply with its subpoenas to provide more information regarding its investigation into the company’s alleged privacy violations In a recent press conference, Becerra addressed […]

Matt Stoller describes how Microsoft avoided the fate of IBM, which was constantly under threat by antitrust authorities Like the rest of the Clinton administration, the DOJ Antitrust Division in the 1990s talked populist, but […]

A cache of leaked Facebook documents shows how Facebook would reward partners by giving them preferential access to certain types of user data while denying the same access to rival companies For example, Facebook gave […]

Jack Dorsey has cut off a tiny revenue stream while focusing attention on rival’s inaction Twitter’s announcement that it will ban all political advertising has prompted a wave of calls for Facebook to do the […]

What we risk by hyper-focusing on “data” as a problem to solve We still don’t have a good answer to this fundamental question — “what is data?” It’s not for lack of trying to define […]

In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, his employees ask him to hold political ads to the same standard as regular ones Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a less-than-stellar performance in Congress. In […]

It was a showdown between Young Millennial and Old Millennial, between socialist renegade and billionaire frat bro, between US Congress and Big Tech On Wednesday, members of Congress grilled Mark Zuckerberg about data privacy, hate […]

Andrew Yang Keeps Talking About the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What the Heck Is That? Andrew Yang seems well-intentioned and concerned about the middle class. A lot of smart people on the left like the idea […]

To save democracy and the free press, we must eliminate Google and Facebook’s control over the information commons That means decentralizing these markets and splitting information utilities from one another so that search, mapping, YouTube […]

Massive protests raging in Lebanon were triggered when Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s government unveiled austerity measures that included a $0.20 tax on calls made via WhatsApp That proposal was soon scrapped, but protesters from various […]

We thought trade would bring Western values to China. Instead, it brought Chinese values to Apple “Chinese netizens hail Apple’s removal of app that aids HK rioters.” That was how the Global Times, a Chinese […]

Could admissions around buses, kissing kippers and saying he’s the “model of restraint” really downplay negative search results? It has been a curious few months in politics, but one of the strangest theories being whispered […]

The news Tuesday that Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to fight Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s policies has returned the spotlight to an uncomfortable fact about Facebook’s scale and power Facebook’s power to promote or block stories, lies, […]

With a potential no-deal Brexit looming, there’s one lesser-known industry that could be impacted: data sharing. Plenty of businesses aren’t aware of the huge change that may be coming The UK is part of the […]