The Supreme Court Probably Won’t Break the Internet—At Least for Now
In Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, the Court considers whether the Web’s most foundational law still makes sense.
February 24, 2023
Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists?
According to the lawyer behind a new class-action suit, every image that a generative tool produces “is an infringing, derivative work.”
February 10, 2023
Is This the End of Elon Musk’s Twitter Odyssey?
By offering to step down as C.E.O., Musk may be admitting that a social network can’t be a one-man show.
December 21, 2022
The Year in Apps I Gave Up On
In 2022, the entire Internet began to feel something like a dying mall populated only by stores we don’t want to visit.
December 8, 2022
What Fleeing Twitter Users Will—and Won’t—Find on Mastodon
The burgeoning social network is “designed to be against virality,” as one user put it. Can it be the future of social media?
November 22, 2022
A Twitter Employee’s Account of Surviving Layoff Day
“I actually wanted to get laid off.”
November 4, 2022
Twitter Is Already a Hellscape
Can Elon Musk really make it better—or worse?
November 3, 2022
The Age of Algorithmic Anxiety
Interacting online today means being besieged by system-generated recommendations. Do we want what the machines tell us we want?
July 25, 2022
How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
Two new books examine how social media traps users in a brutal race to the bottom.
June 4, 2022
