A reporter watches as a Hindu nationalist government uses tech from the companies he covers to destroy a secular democracy.

The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can’t fix the problem.

While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time.

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity.

For years, Mark Zuckerberg has faced criticism that Facebook is bad for democracy. A cache of leaked audio reveals the story of how much ultimately comes down to his judgment—and the forces freezing him in place.

Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.

The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it?

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.

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.