tabloids Prince Harry begs forgiveness, the Queen shops Prince Andrew to the Feds, and Kirstie Alley’s secret life, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Business FTC orders Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft to provide details on prior acquisitions of small companies Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Republic of Lies: the rise of conspiratorial thinking and the actual conspiracies that fuel it Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow
picks Art pranksters upload Mark Zuckerberg deepfake to Instagram to test Facebook's non-removal policy Xeni Jardin
surveillance Empirical analysis of behavioral advertising finds that surveillance makes ads only 4% more profitable for media companies Cory Doctorow
Business Amazon's staffing up a news vertical full of crime stories designed to scare you into buying a spying, snitching "smart" doorbell Cory Doctorow
law The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly Cory Doctorow
privacy Zuckerberg announces a comprehensive plan for a new, privacy-focused Facebook, but fails to mention data sharing and ad targeting Cory Doctorow
law The TRUE Fees Act: legislative proposal to force cable/ISP companies to advertise the true cost of their services, inclusive of surcharges Cory Doctorow
Journalism The problem with all the mistakes in Jill Abramson's book on journalism is you'll never know who wrote them Rob Beschizza
