Paradise Lost: The Rise and Ruin of Couchsurfing.com
The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos.
The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos.
Andrew Fedorov Input Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink
In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I’m forever getting married.
Lauren Goode Wired Apr 2021 25min Permalink
How a dating app helped a generation of Chinese come out of the closet.
Yi-Ling Liu New York Times Magazine Mar 2020 30min Permalink
Surviving sexual assault in a rapidly digitized world.
Mary South The New Yorker Jan 2020 30min Permalink
The lip-syncing app Musical.ly claims that it has signed up 50% of American teens.
Elspeth Reeve Elle Jul 2016 Permalink
After two cycling-related deaths, the social fitness network becomes a target.
David Darlington Bicycling Magazine Oct 2013 35min Permalink