Stop Calling Snapchat a Social Network
First, it was the rampant copycatting of Stories. Then, the spectacular failure of Spectacles. Then the Great Millennial Migration to Instagram. And the redesign so universally hated that more than a million people signed...
Facebook and Google Must Ban Ads From Dark Money Groups
As midterm elections approach, anxieties loom large that social media will be prime targets for manipulative influence campaigns. Last week news emerged that Cambridge Analytica improperly used the data of tens of millions of...
Some hard truths about Twitter’s health crisis
It’s a testament to quite how control freaky and hermetically sealed to criticism the tech industry is that Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey went unscripted in front of his own brand livestreaming service this week,...
Maybe Nobody Wants Your Space Internet
In the early 2000s, Greg Wyler, former founder of a semiconductor company, was laying fiber in Africa. He wanted to do something that mattered. Semiconductors didn’t matter, you know? But linking people to each...
Facebook employs psychologist whose firm sold data to Cambridge Analytica
Joseph Chancellors GSR sold on illicitly collected data in data harvesting scheme called scam and fraud by FacebookThe co-director of a company that harvested data from tens of millions of Facebook users before selling...
Facebook Owes You More Than This
Signing up for a Facebook account, or any free online service, comes with an implicit bargain: Use it as much as you want—check your News Feed, like a status, poke a friend—and in return,...
