5/25/22Now playing Making the Facebook Papers PublicThe historic leak left more than 1,000 top-secret documents in the hands of a select few reporters. Now, we’re…
5/17/22Why Every Company Is an Ad Company NowFacebook and Google are having a harder time reaching customers, so companies like Marriott are creating their own…
5/16/22This Is How Often Online Ads Are Auctioning Off Your Data Every DayAdvertisers—and shady ad middlemen—are paying to violate your privacy hundreds of times every day you're online.
5/16/22We're Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here's How Facebook Killed News Feed Fixes Over Fear of Conservative Backlash.Facebook said it did not "build and withhold any News Feed changes based on potential impact on any one political…
5/15/229 Times Pranksters, Vigilantes, and Weirdos Hijacked TV BroadcastsWe now interrupt this regular programming for some aliens and some Jesus.
5/12/22Biden Wants to Get Tougher on American Data Given to Foreign Advertisers: ReportThe Commerce Department has stalled out on regulation of how Americans' data flows across digital borders. A draft…
5/11/22Twitter’s New Privacy Policy Is a Video Game That SucksTwitter Data Dash is the company's attempt at making their data guidelines more transparent, sort of.
5/11/22Passenger Lands Plane After Pilot Gets SickThe unnamed fellow had no flying experience, and the radio controller had no familiarity with the aircraft—but that…
5/10/22Despite Its Name, Terra's Stablecoin Value PlummetsThat's what you get for investing in an "algorithmic" stablecoin instead of one that's actually stable.
5/6/22Facebook Deliberately Caused Chaos to Water Down Australian News Law: ReportWhistleblowers claim that the company used an overly broad crackdown to neuter a news media law. Facebook denied the…
5/6/2211 Online Privacy Tips for Getting an AbortionOur digital data is a new battleground in a post-Roe world. Here's how to keep it safe.
5/4/22Broke: Breaking up Big Tech. Woke: Breaking up Big Ads.Coming in hot to a Senate floor near you: a bill targeting the super-lucrative ad networks of Google and Meta, the…
5/4/22How to Get an Abortion in the Age of SurveillanceWith a burner phone and some awareness of geofencing, you can conceal yourself from for-profit data brokers who…
5/2/22Grindr's Data-Sharing Problem Is Bigger Than GrindrA new investigation revealed the gay dating app has been pawning off the locations its queer clientele via brokers…
5/2/22We're Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here's What They Say About the Ranking Algorithms That Control Your News Feed.Facebook employees knew that a computer-curated feed increased the time users spent on the social network—and that…
4/29/22Europe Starts Its Own Social NetworksIf Twitter and YouTube are skeeving you out, the bloc believes it can offer an alternative.
4/29/22Snap's CEO Finally Calls The Metaverse What It IsAmbiguous, unimaginative, and kinda hypothetical? Yep, sounds about right.
4/28/22Meta Found Snooping on Student Aid ApplicantsOnce again, you can quit Facebook, but you can never leave.
4/26/22Russia Fines Meta for Spreading 'LGBT Propaganda' After Banning Facebook and InstagramTikTok was fined for the same reason, the latest the fallout from the country's punitive anti-LGBT laws.
4/22/22Ukraine's Postal Service Gets DDOS'd After Printing Stamps of Sunken Russian BattleshipThe stamp showed a Ukrainian guard telling the Moskova to "go f**k itself." The post office didn't disclose where…