Technology & Media

A contrarian take on the disinformation panic

By Sean Illing October 26

Wall Street doesn’t care about the Facebook leaks. Mark Zuckerberg does.

By Shirin Ghaffary October 25

Facebook’s name change plan reflects its real priorities

By Shirin Ghaffary October 20

One Good Thing: A YouTube decluttering channel that made my sister and me quit screaming

By Athena Frost October 19

Facebook is having a Big Oil moment

By Adam Clark Estes October 6

Self-driving cars: The 21st-century trolley problem

By Rani Molla October 6

Facebook’s whistleblower tells Congress how to regulate tech

By Shirin Ghaffary October 5

Google’s plan to cut pay for remote workers who relocate is a bad idea

By Rani Molla October 4

Why this Facebook scandal is different

By Shirin Ghaffary October 3

SpaceX’s latest mission was an infomercial (for charity)

By Rebecca Heilweil September 20

Apple shut down a voting app in Russia. That should worry everyone.

By Rebecca Heilweil September 17

It’s getting harder for people to believe that Facebook is a net good for society

By Shirin Ghaffary September 16

How a simple email address makes things complicated

By Sara Morrison September 7

Amazon’s favorite electric vehicle company is going public at a very tricky time

By Rebecca Heilweil August 30

Apple has changed its App Store rules, and Apple’s critics aren’t satisfied

By Peter Kafka August 27

The mystery behind OnlyFans’ flip-flop on porn

By Sara Morrison August 26

The FTC has refiled its case against Facebook

By Shirin Ghaffary August 19

Never going back to the office? Facebook has an app for that.

By Shirin Ghaffary August 19

How Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are handling the Taliban

By Shirin Ghaffary August 18

Why no one knows how bad Facebook’s vaccine misinformation problem is

By Shirin Ghaffary August 16

“People do not trust that Facebook is a healthy ecosystem”

By Shirin Ghaffary August 6

Streaming space tourism is the new reality TV

By Rebecca Heilweil August 4

It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder.

By Sigal Samuel August 3

Google and Facebook lead the way with Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Will corporate America follow?

By Shirin Ghaffary July 28

A new bill would hold Facebook responsible for Covid-19 vaccine misinformation

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rebecca Heilweil July 22

Why Netflix is getting into games

By Peter Kafka July 20

Biden stacks his administration with yet another tech foe

By Shirin Ghaffary July 20

What is CNN+ and why would you pay for it?

By Peter Kafka July 19

The surgeon general wants Facebook to do more to stop Covid-19 lies

By Sara Morrison July 16

Facebook wants creators, but YouTube is paying creators much, much more

By Peter Kafka July 15

Racist trolls attacked England’s soccer team. Fans fought back.

By Shirin Ghaffary July 14

Google is facing yet another major antitrust lawsuit

By Sara Morrison July 7

How TikTok’s hate speech detection tool set off a debate about racial bias on the app

By Shirin Ghaffary July 7

Trump’s lawsuits against Big Tech are just another fundraising tool

By Shirin Ghaffary July 7

Trump’s lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and Google will probably go nowhere

By Shirin Ghaffary July 7

Trump is nowhere to be found on the Twitter clone his former spokesperson launched

By Shirin Ghaffary July 1

Florida’s social media free speech law has been blocked for likely violating free speech laws

By Sara Morrison July 1

The FTC’s antitrust complaint against Facebook has been dismissed — for now

By Shirin Ghaffary June 28

Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity

By Shirin Ghaffary June 26

Got the same name as a serial killer? Google might think you’re the same person.

By Rebecca Heilweil June 25

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