Pattern Matching

Blockchain takes a substantial toll on the environment that experts are beginning to reckon with

Why the search giant can afford to kill the cookie

Products like Clubhouse and Twitter’s “Super Follows” offer a new kind of engagement

How to bolster the media without breaking the internet

Social networks would love to show users less political content. Here’s why that’s a problem.

The hot new social app has found success by replicating real-world social structures rather than exploding them

Birdwatch and the Oversight Board are new approaches to the same idea: shifting responsibility away from the platforms themselves

Two schools of thought on the new administration

The first step is agreeing on exactly what it is — and what we want it to be

Booting Trump won’t solve social media’s problems. But it’s not a bad place to start.

The feud between Apple and Facebook enters a new era

The roots of Big Tech’s antitrust problem can be found in his bestselling 2014 business book, ‘Zero to One’

An online speech expert explains why no online platform will be spared from content-moderation controversy

New product features are rolling out to broaden the platform’s appeal. Will they work?

What kind of news does the news feed feed when the news feed does feed news?

The election proved that social platforms are the new gatekeepers

And a few things they haven’t

Google’s antitrust case won’t reshape the industry. But it’s the start of something that might.

How the prospect of a “blue wave” is changing content moderation.

Democrats aren’t the only ones ready to rewrite the antitrust rules for internet platforms

Both companies leverage vast amounts of data for unprecedented surveillance

A new drone from Amazon subsidiary Ring raises familiar questions

The popular new Netflix documentary is a wake-up call with no answer

The failure of online schooling highlights a basic flaw in our digital infrastructure: It wasn’t built to supply public goods.

If Zuckerberg cares at all about the platform’s impact, he should stop outsourcing content moderation now

A banking law from 1956 offers a realistic model for regulating dominant internet platforms

The problem isn’t moderation. It’s the basic structure of social media.

Epic Games’ ambush shows how antitrust scrutiny has changed the app store landscape

Trump’s ban on Chinese apps is part of a tide of digital nationalism

The Twitter hack reminds us that American social platforms are a security risk, too

There’s no such thing as an apolitical social platform

An offhand tweet sparked an outpouring of ideas to fix what’s broken about Facebook and Twitter

Facebook may follow YouTube, which made real changes in response to a 2017 advertiser rebellion — and emerged stronger than ever.

How the triple turmoil of a pandemic, protests, and a presidential election threatens Silicon Valley’s status quo.

In trying to do just enough, advocates say, tech companies aren’t doing enough.

Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok are distorting our view of a crisis. But they’re also countering the distorted view we had before.

Twitter draws a line in the sand, while Facebook ducks and covers

A golden era of tech offices sputters to a close

Online spaces like ‘Fortnite’ and ‘Animal Crossing’ are replacing the physical world