by Seth David Radwell In the world of social media, Facebook is ubiquitous. Coming from humble beginnings as a Harvard student’s pet project, it’s now expanded to […]
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What we should and shouldn’t do about kids and social media
by Aubrey Kirchhoff Chances are if you’ve read the news in the past year you’ve seen a headline like these: “It’s time to go nuclear.” “Mark Zuckerberg […]
Tech giants should pay for the local news they use
It’s no secret that local journalism is in deep trouble. More than two newspapers are disappearing each week, on average, and more than a fifth of Americans […]
Senate must revive bill to preserve local journalism
Last week, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act was pulled from Senate consideration after Sen. Ted Cruz managed to squeeze in a bill-killing amendment during committee markup. […]
Big Tech’s reckoning won’t stop with Uber
by Parmy Olson Life for big tech companies looks increasingly different to how it did five years ago. Back then, Uber Technologies Inc. used a secret “kill […]
Time to break Big Tech’s stranglehold
Yesterday, we covered the Open App Markets Act — a bill in Congress that targets the anticompetitive practices in app stores. Today, we’ll cover its companion bill, […]
Meta smear campaign co-opted local papers
The Washington Post was the first to report that Meta (Facebook’s parent company) had hired the right-wing consulting firm Targeted Victory to run a smear campaign against […]
There’s a better way than fact-checking COVID posts
by Faye Flam The right and left may not agree on what constitutes misinformation, but both would like to see less of it on social media. And […]
The price of leaving Facebook unchecked
In August 2017, the Myanmar military, backed by civilian mobs, launched a coordinated attack against the Rohingya Muslims living in the country’s Rahkine state. The massacre — […]
A chronological feed wouldn’t fix Facebook’s problems
by Cathy O’Neil There’s been a lot of discussion, since the Facebook Files were leaked, about how to repair the social media platform. A lot of this […]
