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In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

During testimony at Meta’s antitrust trial, the Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be.

Hint: You can’t, really.

On today’s social media, the only way to counteract the overflow of online content is to put out an overflow of your own.

Online platforms allowed me to cultivate a freer version of myself. Then the digital world began to close off.

The Israel-Hamas war has displayed with fresh urgency the perils of relying on our feeds for updates about events unfolding in real time.

The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over.

How the search for men who prey on underage victims became a YouTube craze.

A teacher in Tuscany collects the strange and beautiful images that capture what he calls “a marginal Italy.”

Facebook is trying to copy TikTok, but this strategy may well signal the end of these legacy platforms.

Interacting online today means being besieged by system-generated recommendations. Do we want what the machines tell us we want?

Two new books examine how social media traps users in a brutal race to the bottom.

From the archive: pieces on tech magnates and their impact on how we consume information.

The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.

Increasingly, what players are seeking is a virtual environment that feels as inexhaustible as the real one.

In a virtual world full of virtual goods, finance could get weird.

In a new era of hyperpartisan identities, can anything bring “us” and “them” together?

The new chair of the Federal Trade Commission intends to change the way we treat monopolies.

Should they be using these services at all?

Thousands of documents uncovered by Frances Haugen reveal, among other things, how employees of Facebook—or Meta, as it’s now known—talk when they think that no one is listening.