Editorial
Why Meta’s Dismantling of DEI Risks Tech’s Future
Meta announced on Friday that it would dismantle its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. In a memo to employees, Meta’s VP of HR, Janelle Gale,
The End of Accountability? Trump’s Sentencing and the Future of Governance
In a courtroom turned virtual stage, Donald Trump has made history once again – this time as the first president-elect to face criminal sentencing. The
Everyone’s Googling How to Delete Facebook. Here’s What That Actually Means
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg haphazardly announced this week that the company would terminate its third-party fact-checking program, relocate content moderation to Texas, and loosen various
Elon Musk’s AfD Kingmaking is Distributed Dictatorship in Action
The world’s richest man hosted AfD leader Alice Weidel in a live Twitter Spaces discussion on Thursday, where he praised her party’s nationalist agenda and
Alito, Trump and the Death of Plausible Deniability
According to the New York Times, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke directly with Donald Trump about a purported “job reference” just before Trump’s lawyers
TikTok and the New Mercantilism
On January 19th, TikTok faces a potential ban in the United States unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance sells the platform. The stakes extend far
What Bluesky’s $700m Valuation Really Means
Bluesky, the social media platform that emerged from Twitter’s internal incubator, is raising a new round of funding led by Bain Capital Ventures at a
Trumpist Economics Are Coming Home to Roost
For months, equity markets indulged a mass delusion: that a second Trump term would combine the market-friendly aspects of his first term (deregulation, tax cuts)
Britain Just Banned Deepfake Porn. Now Comes the Hard Part.
Britain just announced it will criminalize the creation and sharing of sexually explicit deepfakes. The law, introduced as part of the government’s Crime and Policing
