Despite President Donald Trumps threats that Republicans might shut down social media companies in retaliation for fact-checking his tweets, the executive order he signed on Thursday unsurprisingly d…
You may have never heard of it, but Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is the legal backbone of the internet. The law was created almost 30 years ago to protect internet platforms from lia…
There is a lot going on right now, to say the least a global pandemic, an economic recession, millions of people without jobs, riots over police murdering a black man in Minnesota. And yet, the presi…
On the Record a bombshell documentary in which a large group of women allege that the godfather of hip-hop and Def Jam record label founder Russell Simmons sexually assaulted or raped them wound up o…
President Donald Trump has built his political brand by posting a steady stream of misleading information, conspiracy theories, and personal attacks on Twitter. Now that Twitter did something unprece…
On the Record a bombshell documentary in which a large group of women allege that the godfather of hip-hop and Def Jam record label founder Russell Simmons sexually assaulted or raped them wound up o…
In February 2019, Twitter announced that it was developing a feature to allow users to moderate their replies. Users would be able to choose who could directly respond to their tweets, out of a hiera…
The big tech platforms found themselves in an unusual position during the first part of the coronavirus pandemic: getting praised for how they handled misinformation. It was nice while it lasted. …
For the first time ever, Twitter has fact-checked President Trumps tweets. Until now, Twitter hasnt taken any action against Trumps account or tweets even when he has flouted the social media platfo…
Elon Musk is about to send humans into space. The billionaires rocket ship company SpaceX is scheduled to launch its first manned spaceflight on Wednesday. If all goes as planned, Crew Dragon Demo-2 …
When Steven Soifer, a social work professor at the University of Mississippi, and his wife finally left social isolation for the first time since early March, they encountered a familiar problem: the…
Outrage may be flowing toward Laurene Powell Jobs, the majority owner of the Atlantic, after news came on Thursday that the magazine laid off almost 20 percent of its staff. But she will not be the last billionaire owner of a major news outlet who will have t…