SEP/OCT 2018 MAG STORY collection18 Stories

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  1. Why the pessimists are winning, for now

    The editor’s letter in the 2018 politics issue of MIT Technology Review.
    August 22, 2018

  2. How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump

    To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.
    August 14, 2018
    Photo of protester waving Egypt's flag.

  3. Technologists are trying to fix the “filter bubble” problem that tech helped create

    But research shows online polarization isn’t as clear-cut as people think.
    August 22, 2018

  4. Fake America great again

    Inside the race to catch the worryingly real fakes that can be made using artificial intelligence.
    August 17, 2018

  5. Hackers are out to jeopardize your vote

    Cyberattacks on the 2016 US election caused states to bolster the defenses of their voting systems. It hasn’t been enough, says the University of Michigan’s Alex Halderman.
    August 15, 2018

  6. Tim Hwang’s FiscalNote is revolutionizing Washington lobbying with big data

    FiscalNote takes the intuition out of politics. Does it take the democracy out, too?
    August 13, 2018

  7. The “neuropolitics” consultants who hack voters’ brains

    These experts say they can divine political preferences you can’t express from signals you don’t know you’re producing.
    August 16, 2018

  8. The simple but ingenious system Taiwan uses to crowdsource its laws

    vTaiwan is a promising experiment in participatory governance. But politics is blocking it from getting greater traction.
    August 21, 2018

  9. Who needs democracy when you have data?

    Here’s how China rules using data, AI, and internet surveillance.
    August 20, 2018
    Photo of two surveillance cameras next to a portrait of Mao Zedong.

  10. Four big targets in the cyber battle over the US ballot box

    Here’s how hackers could strike the 2018 midterm elections.
    August 15, 2018

  11. This is what filter bubbles actually look like

    Maps of Twitter activity show how political polarization manifests online and why divides are so hard to bridge.
    August 22, 2018

  12. US election campaign technology from 2008 to 2018, and beyond

    The first Obama campaign kicked off a technological revolution in electioneering. Where is it going next?
    August 22, 2018

  13. China’s use of big data might actually make it less Big Brother-ish

    Why the country’s adoption of ever-more-intrusive technology could, paradoxically, lead to stronger civil liberties.
    August 22, 2018

  14. Kenya’s technology evolved. Its political problems stayed the same.

    Long before the internet, hate speech flourished in echo chambers of a different kind.
    August 22, 2018

  15. Future elections may be swayed by intelligent, weaponized chatbots

    The AI advances that brought you Alexa are teaching propaganda how to talk.
    August 22, 2018

  16. The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong

    21st-century digital evangelists had a lot in common with early Christians and Russian revolutionaries.
    August 22, 2018

  17. Noon in the antilibrary

    Science fiction: What happens when fake news is everywhere?
    August 18, 2018

  18. How to tell if you’re arguing with a bot

    MIT Technology Review helps you figure out who is on the other side of your debate.
    August 22, 2018