Ideas

To protect frontline creators and preserve evidence, the platform needs to learn from the wartime failings of other social media companies.

Physicians are refusing patients treatment today because of how they might feel tomorrow, jeopardizing essential services for trans youth and women.

The urge to snoop is as old as time—and by the 1950s, the electronic listening invasion had begun.

In the pre-internet age, an embarrassing moment might have generated some jokes among friends. But today, a single slip can turn into a global event.

But in a Ukraine at war, it was also a source of gamer guilt.

The post-FOSTA internet often silences sex workers, queer users, and artists, furthering puritanical ideas about sexuality.

The agreement may provoke a global data storage melee and more politically motivated intervention in the tech sector.

The then CEO of Zappos took increasingly drastic measures to hit targets set by the ecommerce giant.

The belief that we could save endlessly online turned us all into information hoarders. What society needs instead is better systems for preserving public knowledge.

The industry’s obsession with accumulating IP has led to a huge uptick in employee inventors—and some outlandish patents.

Death holograms aren't inherently creepy. They're part of a lineage of grief technologies that stretches back to photography.

The platform can be quicker at recommending groups built around child predation than it is to remove them.

Deniers of the school shooting gathered in a private Facebook group. Their posts lend a window into how and why cruel rumors take off.

Allegations of biological warfare are alarming. They also have a way of appearing in moments of crisis.

A few critical errors have brought down Russia's complex and objectively brilliant war of influence in the West.

Ukraine's deputy minister of Digital Transformation says Western tech sanctions have helped—but it's time to remove Russia from the global IT ecosystem.

A gesture as simple as holding the violin is intimately connected to our biology.

The collapse of the insect population could unravel ecosystems. Scientists wonder if robots and drones could stop the gap.

Images of crimes against humanity are in danger of being lost. Fortunately, best practices exist, and the international community needs to implement them.

Within the long history of telecommunication in nature, the web can be seen not as a mere tool, but as a living system.