Rewriting Life Six things to do with your data before you die How to make sure your loved ones can get into all your accounts. Or, alternatively—how to cover your tracks. by Simson Garfinkel 2018-10-23T05:00:00-04:00
Tech Policy 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. by John Kelly and Camille François 2018-08-22T07:00:00-04:00
Artificial Intelligence How to tell if you’re talking to a bot The five best ways to detect fake social-media accounts. by Will Knight 2018-07-18T10:06:00-04:00
Future of Work Job of the future: Embalming your online persona The woman organizing our messy digital lives to survive us. by Erin Winick 2018-05-18T07:00:00-04:00
Silicon Valley “Safety,” yes; “sorry,” no: What Mark Zuckerberg did—and didn’t—say in his F8 keynote At Facebook’s annual developer conference, the social network’s CEO used a lot of familiar words to share a few new things. by Rachel Metz 2018-05-01T16:54:00-04:00
Tech Policy Your own devices will give the next Cambridge Analytica far more power to influence your vote Greater connectivity, more data, and auto-generated content will make today’s manipulation techniques look primitive. by Justin Hendrix and David Carroll 2018-04-02T17:00:00-04:00
Silicon Valley How to manipulate Facebook and Twitter instead of letting them manipulate you Twitter and Facebook have vast control over our online lives. Here are six ways to take it back. by Rachel Metz 2018-03-20T07:00:00-04:00
Silicon Valley The Cambridge Analytica affair reveals Facebook’s “Transparency Paradox” Sinan Aral, a professor at MIT, fears the fallout from the scandal could limit researchers’ access to social networks’ data. by Martin Giles 2018-03-19T20:30:00-04:00
Connectivity Twitter wants to reduce the “health” of its conversations to four numbers. Good luck, say experts. What kind of thermometer do you need to take a social network’s temperature? by Rachel Metz 2018-03-08T13:24:00-05:00
Connectivity Social networks are broken. This man wants to fix them. Ethan Zuckerman on fighting social media’s echo chamber. by Rachel Metz 2018-02-09T00:00:00-05:00