Monika Glennon had one brief exchange with a complete stranger in a Facebook comment section. That stranger destroyed her life.

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.

How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.

How social media is fanning violence across the globe.

“I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.”

How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.

An interview with a Funny or Die writer after the entire editorial team was laid off.

Margit Wennmachers is Andreessen Horowitz’s secret weapon.

Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.

Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.

Can local news survive?

A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”

The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.

Examining the future of the massive social media site.

A critique of Facebook.

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.

Making sense of the CEO’s very public tour of America, which feels like a political campaign minus the politics.

Computer scientist tycoon Robert Mercer is at the heart of a shockingly well-funded propaganda network.

Libertarian, futurist, billionaire: a profile of Peter Thiel.

The social network positioned its plan to bring the internet to millions of Indians as a gift. The country saw a catch.

On the history of content moderation and what it means for the future of free speech.

The humans behind the algorithm.

Famous people and the media have always needed each other. It has been a long, mutually beneficial (and mutually profitable) partnership. And it’s over.

The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.

A murder case in Mississippi catches the eye of amateur sleuths on Facebook, who proceed to harass everyone involved in the case.