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- Oct- 2020 -29 OctoberVideo Games
The Senate’s Section 230 Circus Sent a Bad Global Signal
Yesterday’s Senate hearing with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey was a mess. Several Democrats focused…
Read More » - 27 OctoberProduct Reviews
The Science That Spans #MeToo, Memes, and Covid-19
Network science’s underlying theory predates the internet, but social media’s rise was an important cultural innovation that implored the need…
Read More » - 26 OctoberVideo Games
Wikipedia’s Plan to Resist Election Day Misinformation
On Election Night, she wrote, Wikipedia is likely to impose even tighter restrictions, limiting the power to publish a winner…
Read More » - 26 OctoberProduct Reviews
My Twitter Addiction Got So Bad, I Had to Block Myself
Augustine points out—and this seems especially relevant to your dilemma—that the most insidious temptations are those that we cannot completely…
Read More » - 25 OctoberVideo Games
On the Week of the Election, Social Media Must Go Dark
America has given social media giants ample time to figure out how to stop their platforms from being used to…
Read More » - 24 OctoberVideo Games
There’s No Turning Back on AI in the Military
For countless Americans, the United States military epitomizes nonpareil technological advantage. Thankfully, in many cases, we live up to it.…
Read More » - 23 OctoberProduct Reviews
Trump’s Strangest Lie: A Plague of Suicides Under His Watch
In last night’s presidential debate, Donald Trump repeated one of his more unorthodox reelection pitches. “People are losing their jobs,”…
Read More » - 22 OctoberVideo Games
Trump’s Un-American Failure to Protect Internet Freedom
It was no quiet period for global tech issues. In 2011, Egyptian authorities shut down the internet amid pro-democracy protests;…
Read More » - 21 OctoberProduct Reviews
The Improbable Appeal of TikTok Tarot
Jake Trevino is a TikTok tarot reader. In February he had a job lined up teaching and coaching a college…
Read More » - 20 OctoberVideo Games
Scientific Journals Are Denouncing Trump. That’s Normal
In April 2017, just a few months into the Trump administration, hundreds of thousands of people took part in a…
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