The new dotcom crash: collapsing ad markets threaten disaster for Big Tech
Tim Hwang, author of Subprime Attention Crisis, sees parallels between the 2008 housing crisis and today’s economy.
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In trying to tackle fake news, Facebook is cracking down on real science
The platform’s fact checkers found no inaccuracies in a recent BMJ investigation – but limited its reach anyway. Should they…
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If tech bros get their way, the future is going to be ugly
From weddings in the metaverse to dead-eyed celebrities discussing NFTs: the 2020s are showing us that new technology does not…
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Why have governments been so slow to remove illegal social media posts?
More than three years after a beheading video galvanised a campaign to better regulate social media, Denmark has planned new…
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How Google makes you know less but think you know more
Experiments have found that constant googling is leading people to mistake the internet’s knowledge as their own.
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How Apple became the world’s first $3trn company
The tech company’s market value has more than doubled since January 2020.
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The political risks of Big Data dominance
Big Data's hubristic claim that it understands humanity opens the door to dangerous manipulation.
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It’s the tech giants, not socialist politicians, who are coming for our liberty
As algorithms take over our lives, the issue of Big Tech censorship can no longer be dismissed as a fringe…
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Why did YouTube delete Novara Media’s channel?
The left-wing media outlet had its popular channel taken down for two hours without explanation.
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The goodness business: how woke capitalism turned virtue into profit
No corporation is without its ideals in the new “emoticonomy”. But what do companies want with their new moral authority?
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The internet was built for connection – how did it go so wrong?
The World Wide Web celebrates its 30th birthday this year. Its users are less empowered than ever.
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The Great Facebook Outage of 2021: Why WhatsApp and Instagram were down for six hours
The outage demonstrates the danger of concentrating the power of the internet in just a few hands.
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Margrethe Vestager: “Europe was so far ahead of the curve on privacy”
The EU commissioner on her battle with Big Tech.
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Donald Trump started a war with Big Tech. Will Joe Biden call it off?
The US president-elect faces a dilemma: support the break-up of America's most valuable companies, or endure the wrath of his party.
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