No one asked for Meta’s “AI chatbot”
Like the metaverse before it, this new “innovation” could only appeal to someone as detached from reality as a tech…
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We must break up the tech platforms that threaten our democracy
We are prisoners of a global online panopticon that knows more about us than we do.
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Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and our new age of hyper-masculinity
The embarrassing rise of the “anti-woke” alpha male shows how a crisis of masculinity makes one seek to aggressively perform…
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Whoever wins, we lose
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s cage fight is a neo-feudal nightmare.
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The death of the Metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg appears to be quietly killing off his pet project, at the expense of billions of dollars. Why are…
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Key policy moments of 2022
Policymakers and experts on their policy highlight – or lowlight – of the year.
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How 2022 killed the myth of the tech genius
This year saw the great humbling of the Silicon Valley billionaire – from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg.
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Labour: Social media bosses should be held criminally liable for harmful content
The party has called for the scope of the Online Safety Bill to be expanded as it returns to parliament.
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How long does Facebook have left?
The departure of senior executives and a major round of redundancies raise questions about the company's future.
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We deserve better than the Metaverse
Our culture is increasingly consumed by the whims of tech billionaires funnelling absurd amounts of cash into projects no one…
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Metaverse in retrograde
Mark Zuckerberg’s latest iteration of his virtual world has been derided as aesthetically primitive – but is that the point?
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Does the rise of the Metaverse mean the decline of cities?
Neighbourhoods depend on people looking out for each other, but the growth of virtual worlds threatens to undermine public oversight…
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Mark Zuckerberg is fooling no one by changing Facebook’s name to Meta
The “metaverse” epitomises Big Tech’s focus on masturbatory ego projects rather than social goods.
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