Technology
The Social Graph Is Dead
Facebook built its empire on a single idea: that mapping human relationships would be the most valuable thing in the history of commerce. The idea was right. The map was wrong.
Marcus Webb11 min read
Ideas
What the Attention Economy Is Doing to Democratic Thought
Outrage is algorithmically optimized. Nuance is penalized. The platforms that organize public discourse have created an information environment that democracy was not designed to survive.
Devon Mitchell12 min read
Law
The First Amendment at the Crossroads
The speech protections Americans take for granted are facing challenges from both left and right that the Supreme Court has not yet fully addressed. What happens next matters enormously.
Nathaniel Brooks13 min read
Technology
The Attention Merchants, Redux
TikTok taught us what the attention economy really is. Now that its fate is uncertain, we have to decide what we actually want from the platforms that shape our minds.
Selin Çelik11 min read