Project Dragonfly would allow Beijing to monitor users’ activity and open letter is latest sign of worker unrest at tech company

Like Uber, Facebook is having trouble attracting talent because it's a shitpit.

Harvard Business School invented the “leadership” industry—and produced a generation of corporate monsters. No wonder Sandberg, one of the school’s most prominent graduates, lacks a functioning moral compass.

The latest news about Facebook is a wake-up call that ‘leaning in’ doesn’t mean doing right.

The platform has been used to disrupt elections, disseminate propaganda and promote hate. Regular users should ask if they are implicated in these failings.

The datasets and models used in these systems are not objective representations of reality. They are the culmination of particular tools, people, and power structures that foreground one way of seeing or judging over another.

The civility debate sidesteps how false assumptions about harm online, coupled with the affordances of digital media, encourage toxicity

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Personalization comes at a steep price. All your data gets sucked up into a company’s servers where they can do whatever they want with it. But Canopy is a new content discovery startup that’s invented impressive technology that lets it learn about you anonymously while all your data stays on your device. Built by the […]

Two devastating pieces of journalism show how disastrous the media giant has become.

Computers are bad at taking no for an answer. This is a problem.

Thanks to decades of research on political economy, we know how hard it is to check the powers of a king.

Silicon Valley’s most successful tech companies use the insights of behaviour design to pump us with dopamine and keep us returning to their products. But, as Ian Leslie learns, some of the psychologists who developed the science of persuasion are worried about the way it is being used

Mark Zuckerberg promised Congress he would combat the spread of conspiracy theories—while his company was doing the opposite.

Despite the growing presence of algorithms in daily life, the U.S. public expresses broad concerns over the fairness and effectiveness of computer programs making important decisions.

Its carefully curated search engine serves up anti-Semitism in response to reasonable queries. The problem reflects a wider issue in the world of tech.

When we're being watched, we conform. We don't speak freely or try new things. But social progress happens in the gap between what’s legal and what’s moral.

The cannier among you will already have noted – and scarred Linux veterans can definitely attest to the fact – that there’s no mention at all of freedom-from in there. The FSF’s unstated position has always been that anyone who wants to be free from indignities like an opaque contraption of a user experience, buggy drivers and nonexistent vendor support in their software, not to mention the casual sexism and racism of the free software movement itself, well. Those people can go pound sand all the way to the Apple store. (Which is what everyone did, but let’s put that aside for the moment.)

Artificial intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy, and erode the ideals of liberty and equality. It will further concentrate the power among a small elite if we don’t take steps to stop it.