Online age verification laws and mandatory digital ID bills are sweeping across the US, UK, Europe, and Australia under the guise of protecting children online. On this episode of Free Speech Friday, ...

Is “enshittification” real, or are we just refusing to take accountability for our own screen time? I sat down with NYC-based cyber ethnographer, designer, and NYU professor Ruby Thelot to debate his ...

In 2017, Facebook’s AI research division and Georgia Tech published a paper titled “Deal or No Deal? End-to-End Learning for Negotiation Dialogues.” In it, they described how they trained AI chatbots ...

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Last week, Mark Zuckerberg published a massive 6,500-word manifesto laying out an aggressive vision for the future of AI. He talked about a future where everyone would have their own personal ...

There is a particular kind of video that has plagued my timeline for the last eighteen months. It could best be described as AI slop, but it’s not quite AI slop. A human created it and often these ...

Over the past few months, as excitement behind Michigan senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed has built organically online, a slew of influencers have suddenly begun promoting his primary opponent, Rep.

Are we living through the dawn of permanent, personalized surveillance? Kylie Jenner is the face of Meta’s new AI smart glasses and suddenly, influencers are declaring a “hot surveillance summer,” ...

Today, a new Pew Research Center survey was released that found that nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults (56%) support banning anyone under the age of 16 from using social media sites aka total and complete ...

“I’ve dreamt of the day that I would be able to press a billionaire,” one influencer’s recent sponsored post with Steyer is captioned. “I was brought in to ask Tom Steyer some questions myself, and ...

Everyone is celebrating the ruling against Meta and Google in the landmark “social media addiction” trial, but they shouldn’t be. In this latest episode of my Free Speech Friday series, journalist Kat ...

Since the release of the Epstein files, we've learned a ton about Epstein's role in the early web. From 4chan to World of Warcraft, to Facebook, and online movements like gamergate and MeToo, Epstein ...