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In the coming weeks, the Facebook Oversight Board will rule on Donald Trump’s indefinite suspension from the platform. This will surely be the Board’s most important ruling to-date. The Board’s…
Chris Kryzan, who worked in tech marketing at the time, remembers this well. In 1993, he launched an online organization called OutProud, a “Google for queers.” It featured a collection…
After just two months on Clubhouse, I finally understand how Theranos happened. While articles, books, and films have covered the saga in excellent detail, some of my curiosity lingered: How…
In the last week, Facebook temporarily cut off Australia’s access to professionally produced news on its platform. The US House Energy and Commerce Committee announced yet another date to grill…
Donald Trump’s Antitrust Division was not particularly skilled at market design. In February 2020, it convinced a judge to wave through the T-Mobile/Sprint merger, under the belief—a prayer really—that the…
In a February 19 speech at the Munich Security Conference, delivered virtually from the White House, President Joe Biden declared, “We must shape the rules that will govern the advance…
By late Tuesday afternoon Sydney-time, Facebook had announced it would restore access to news on its platform in Australia. But logging on five days after its surprise ban, there was…
Facebook shocked the world last week with an abrupt ban of all news content for an entire continent. Like many things the platform has done, its action was clumsy: In…
Texas has always seen its share of extreme weather events, but over the past two decades they have intensified. A few years ago, after the fifth “ 500-year flood” in…
Last month the esteemed Oxford Internet Institute announced a major report on disinformation and “cyber troops” with a press release describing an “industrial-scale problem.” Worldwide press coverage echoed claims that…