Big Tech is buttering you up
Called before MPs, tech execs display their constant vigilance against threats
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Make porn expensive again
The social consequences of pornography are becoming too nasty to ignore
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The old internet is gone but we can still save the new one
A love letter to the internet that once was
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Starmer’s war with Big Tech
Banning social media for under-16s gives the PM a chance to unite his party and the country
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Pornhub’s harm will never be undone
Access to videos of violent, degrading, absurd sex hasn’t been good for girls or boys
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MrBeast’s empire of slop
The biggest YouTuber on the planet is the spirit of the age
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Herzog’s nihilistic penguin is the right-wing Paddington Bear
Reform London mayoral candidate Laila Cunningham’s penguin ad is an ill omen for her campaign
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Millennials want to save children from social media
The first generation raised by the internet wants to be the last
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Elon Musk’s Grok must stop facilitating abuse
Ofcom and the government could stop X’s AI engine posting sexualised deepfakes. Will they?
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YouTube subliminals want to make you perfect
Creators claim to be able to rewire the brain with positive affirmations. But there’s a dark side
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The insidious cruelty of justice porn
A new documentary explores the moral complexity of To Catch a Predator, a 2000s show based on hunting paedophiles
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Jimmy Wales: “Elon Musk is very pleasant to me in private”
Mr Wikipedia on Donald Trump, AI and trust on the internet
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Doomscrolling on Vibes, Meta’s new AI slop feed
Can the TikTok short video model work when nearly everyone involved is a bot?
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Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?
The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it‘s still shaping policy
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Searching for London’s most performative male
Men who deliberately curate their cultural tastes to impress women are a new target of internet mockery
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D4vd and the parasitic cruelty of internet sleuths
After the dead body of a teenage girl was found in the singer D4vd’s car, online speculators went wild
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How the web became a wasteland
Also this week: inside the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and the joy of audiobooks.
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The Sydney Sweeney vibe shift is futile
The only thing she signifies is that the Republican Party has young people in it, and that some of them…
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Beware the girlosphere
What do young women do on the internet?
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Are emojis killing language?
Keith Houston’s history of the little emoticons charts how quickly technology has changed how we think and communicate.
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