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Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.

Why 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang doesn’t want to break up Google

Big Tech’s consolidation is hurting innovation, Yang says, but just saying "break them up" is a "20th century approach to [a] 21st century problem."

By Eric Johnson

A plan to fix inequality would target CEOs who make 100 times more than their employees

"The CEO tax targets just what people want to be targeting."

By Theodore Schleifer

Where the US government is using facial recognition technology to surveil Americans

By Shirin Ghaffary and Rani Molla July 18

Recode Daily: RIP Instagram influencers?

By Kat Borgerding July 19

Presidential candidate Michael Bennet is way behind in the polls. But he believes he can win the nomination — and beat Trump.

By Eric Johnson July 17

Commerce

Inside the conflict at Walmart that’s threatening its high-stakes race with Amazon

Walmart bought Jet.com to compete with Amazon, but Jet founder Marc Lore is feeling the heat as e-commerce losses surpass $1 billion.

By Jason Del Rey July 3

Netflix thought it would have 5 million new subscribers this quarter. Instead it added 2.7 million.

By Peter Kafka July 17

Big Tech told Congress it has plenty of competitors. It’s crushing them all.

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka July 17

Trump’s threat to investigate Google isn’t based on evidence. It’s based on Fox News.

By Aaron Rupar July 16

San Francisco pulls the controversial “IPO tax” because it wasn’t simply an IPO tax

By Theodore Schleifer July 17

Donors love a winner — which is why Silicon Valley is chucking money only at the top 2020 candidates

By Theodore Schleifer July 16

Password sharing could be a good thing for Netflix and Hulu

By Rani Molla July 16

Amazon Prime Day could usher in a new wave of fear-based social media usage

By Rani Molla July 16

Amazon workers are celebrating Prime Day with a protest

By Emily Stewart July 15

Mayor Pete Buttigieg talks about systemic racism, regulating tech, and the divided Democratic Party on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson July 15

Facebook is being fined $5 billion for privacy violations, and Wall Street thinks that’s great news

By Peter Kafka July 12

US mobile speeds are super slow. Here’s what we can do about it.

By Rani Molla July 12

Conservatives pretending to be suppressed by social media dominated social media

By Rani Molla July 12

Pete Buttigieg says Americans should have the right to hide personal details from the internet

By Eric Johnson July 12

Postmates has explored a sale to Uber or DoorDash instead of going public

By Theodore Schleifer and Jason Del Rey July 11

The bogus White House social media summit is basically a big troll

By Peter Kafka July 11

Hackers can hijack your Mac webcam with Zoom. Here’s how to prevent it.

By Emily Stewart July 11

Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s first novel is about divorce in the age of Tinder

By Eric Johnson July 10

Microsoft might crush Slack like Facebook crushed Snapchat

By Rani Molla July 9

Racist Border Patrol groups show Facebook still has work to do on hate speech

By Emily Stewart July 8

Journalist Carole Cadwalladr has a question for tech workers: Are you okay with your bosses enabling “techno-fascism”?

By Eric Johnson July 8

Why you have to keep logging in to read news on your phone

By Rani Molla July 8

Bernie Sanders is winning the internet. Will it win him the White House?

By Emily Stewart July 5

Amazon’s former HQ2 location is doing just fine without Amazon

By Rani Molla July 2

How a lawsuit could reveal secrets about Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic loophole

By Theodore Schleifer July 2

Secret meetings between Uber and labor unions are causing an uproar

By Alexia Fernández Campbell July 1

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon: the Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson July 1

Rockefeller Foundation president Raj Shah: the Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson July 1

Here’s why Google workers plan to protest their employer at Pride Parade this weekend

By Shirin Ghaffary June 28

Can Joe Biden pull off a Barack Obama with Silicon Valley’s wealthiest donors?

By Theodore Schleifer June 28

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian: the Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson June 28

Jony Ive, a design legend who helped create the iPhone, is leaving Apple

By Shirin Ghaffary June 27

Some Uber and Lyft drivers say they were misled into petitioning against their own worker rights

By Shirin Ghaffary June 27

Twitter won’t censor Trump’s rule-breaking tweets, but it will make them harder to find

By Theodore Schleifer June 27

Twitter’s Kayvon Beykpour and Vijaya Gadde: the Code Conference interview

By Eric Johnson June 27

Reddit restricts its biggest pro-Trump board over violent threats

By Emily Stewart June 26

Google employees are backing Warren. Facebookers are putting their money on Harris.

By Rani Molla June 26

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