Inside an IRL cult built on Facebook memes and semen-drinking.

Open source materials suggest that, for now, the apocalyptic, anti-government politics of the “Boogaloo Bois” are not monolithically racist/neo-Nazi. As we have observed, some members rail against police shootings of African Americans, and praise black nationalist self defense groups.

But the materials also demonstrate that however irony-drenched it may appear to be, this is a movement actively preparing for armed confrontation with law enforcement, and anyone else who would restrict their expansive understanding of the right to bear arms. In a divided, destabilized post-coronavirus landscape, they could well contribute to widespread violence in the streets of American cities.

How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election.

There’s only ever so much you can control at any job.

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.

Highlights from two hours of leaked audio from recent staff Q&A sessions with Facebook’s CEO.

Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns.

Brad Parscale has said he’s taking a relative pittance to run the president’s reelection operation. But as with much of what Parscale has claimed about his work and life, that’s not the full story. This is.

Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.

For the purposes of this essay, I’ll call it ‘ambient privacy’—the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school, or in our leisure time does not belong in a permanent record. Not every conversation needs to be a deposition.

A co-founder makes the case for government intervention.

“The key differentiator of Super-Aggregators is that they have three-sided markets: users, content providers (which may include users!), and advertisers. Both content providers and advertisers want the user’s attention, and the latter are willing to pay for it.”

Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs.

Inside Facebooks war on hate speech.

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America.

It was Hell.

On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

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.

Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed.

How lies become truth in online America.

On the lengths Mark Zuckberberg and Sheryl Sandberg have gone to protect their power.

A profile.

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.