Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow
elections A vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points mixed with floods of algorithmically generated "news" Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump's signature tax break for poor people went to subsidize a superyacht marina in Florida Cory Doctorow
cable company fuckery Consumer Reports documents the deceptive cable industry practices used to hike real prices 24% over advertised ones Cory Doctorow
Business Rockstar Games made £4b between 2013-19, paid no corporate tax in the UK, claimed £42m in tax relief Cory Doctorow
psychology Eminent psychologists condemn "emotion detection" systems as being grounded in junk science Cory Doctorow
LGBTQ Microsoft employees want to starve its PAC, which keeps giving money to homophobic, racist, climate-denying Republicans Cory Doctorow
politics Elizabeth Warren profile: portrait of a savvy politician who appeals to working people, and who can get stuff done Cory Doctorow
web theory Traverse City, MI braves the wrath of telcoms lobbyists, pushes ahead with municipal fiber network Cory Doctorow
canada Vancouver's housing bubble was driven by billions in laundered criminal proceeds Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Frontier receives $283.4m/year in taxpayer money, neglects network, rips off customers — and Trump's FCC won't investigate Cory Doctorow
education Zuck turned American classrooms into nonconsensual laboratories for his pet educational theories, and now they're rebelling Cory Doctorow
Business Not just Apple: Microsoft has been quietly lobbying to kill Right to Repair bills Cory Doctorow
australia Uber used spyware to surveil and poach drivers from Australian rival service Gocatch Cory Doctorow
monopolism The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
