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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The problem with the “quiet quitting” media storm
The concept has gone viral on social media – but that could also undermine its power.
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“Our online lives can never truly be our own”: Marie Le Conte on the generation that broke the internet
What does it mean to have grown up alongside an adolescent internet?
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Andrew Tate has been banned from social media. Is this a new era of content moderation?
Facebook, Instagram and TikTok’s move to ban the misogynist was surprisingly swift and decisive.
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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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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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It is time to regulate Twitter and other social media platforms as publishers
The libertarian utopia that Jack Dorsey thought he had created is gone forever.
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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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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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Will Brexit make us more vulnerable to AI decision-making?
The government is proposing to remove EU-era regulatory protections that enable people to challenge the decisions algorithms make about them.
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In 2021, social media companies are essentially immune to criticism – and they know it
Despite shocking headlines, nothing seems to turn the public against social platforms. Is this bad news overload or successful PR…
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How do you solve a problem like Facebook?
The Facebook whistleblower wants Congress to take action. But her solutions would make Facebook even stronger.
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Can anyone “steal” your life from social media?
The viral story “Who Is The Bad Art Friend?” shows we don’t own the versions of ourselves we project online.
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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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What Facebook’s empty campus says about the post-Covid world
When Big Tech found it could work from home, an economy of lower-paid workers lost out.
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The introduction of Facebook places means that Faceook is now in direct competition with services li
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