scholarship Study shows that countries that permit Facebook's beloved "zero rating" programs end up with more expensive wireless data Cory Doctorow

politics Bolton book says House impeachment inquiry should have probed Trump beyond Ukraine Xeni Jardin

Business Facebook is buying Giphy in deal valued at $400 million Xeni Jardin

coronavirus Quarantined family re-creates 1981 Journey video shot by shot Rusty Blazenhoff

social distancing Why is everyone suddenly baking bread? I think I know Gareth Branwyn

privacy New York Times analyzes a leaked set of location data from a private broker, sounds the alarm Cory Doctorow

algorithmic bureaucracy Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s "algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage" Mark Frauenfelder

racism School security guard asked student to stop calling him the n-word. So the school fired him. Rob Beschizza

facebook A San Diego Republican operator ran a massive, multimillion-dollar Facebook scam that targeted boomers Cory Doctorow

animation Nice animation of Zuckerberg as giant cyborg spider enjoying Facebook's nipple-free techno-utopia Rob Beschizza

homelessness Homeless people not welcome on Nextdoor Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow

racism Facebook claims to be taking white supremacist violence more seriously, LMAO Xeni Jardin

china Alex Stamos schools Apple after they whine about Google revealing a whack of Ios zero-days Cory Doctorow

gravity Photos of creatures created by tossing sand in the air Clive Thompson

google From search-engine to walled garden: majority of Google searches do not result in a click Cory Doctorow

elections Clown Car 2.0: Matt Taibbi on the Democratic nomination race Cory Doctorow

propaganda Scandals hit US Agency for Global Media which runs VOA, Radio Martí, TV Martí Xeni Jardin

cable company fuckery Why is there so much antitrust energy for Big Tech but not for Big Telco? Cory Doctorow

politics White House asks fans to report anti-Trump 'political bias' online Xeni Jardin