• Democracy • Featured • Social Media • Technology

    All the President’s Tech CEOs

    Brian Barrett

    Wired

    One by one, Trump asked the executives how much they were investing in the United States. One by one, they obliged, praising Trump’s leadership along the way.

    Published On: 09/05/2025

  • Culture • Recommended • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

    Gavin Newsom on Why He’ll Keep Trolling Trump

    Intelligencer Staff

    New York Magazine

    "It’s humiliating, it’s embarrassing. So this is a mirror, and it’s a mirror not just to Trump himself, but to these networks. These are the chatbots for the administration. And it’s not just Fox, it’s One America News, it’s Newsmax, and it’s all the folks in the right-wing media."

    Published On: 08/29/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Social Media • Technology

    Why the Internet is Turning to Shit

    Alex Skopic

    Current Affairs

    Cory Doctorow’s new book is an insightful diagnosis of how Big Tech is making every app and website worse—even if his solutions leave something to be desired.

    Published On: 08/22/2025

  • Cyber Security • Democracy • Europe • Social Media

    Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Trump Abandons Resistance

    Riley Stuart and Anna-Maria Tesfaye

    The New York Times (Gift)

    The Kremlin has begun a campaign to sway the parliamentary election in Moldova in what could become a new model of election interference online.

    Published On: 08/22/2025

  • Cyber Security • Europe • Featured • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Social Media • Threat Management

    The Resistance Will Be Reported

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

    Published On: 07/24/2025

  • Journalism • Resistance • Social Media

    Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    The mainstream media are overall failing to raise the alarm, failing to connect the dots, failing to show how all the injuries add up to profound danger to the nation's people, its institutions, and its environment.

    Published On: 07/13/2025

  • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

    You’re Not Paranoid. The Surveillance State is Already Here

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Press Freedom • Social Media

    Noise and Silence in Authoritarian Propaganda

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat

    Lucid

    How autocrats protect their claims to be the sole arbiters of truth

    Published On: 05/08/2025

  • Press Freedom • Social Media

    Streamer detained at the border and questioned for hours

    Taylor Lorenz

    usermag.com

    Piker's detention occurs against a backdrop of increasing scrutiny of political activists and commentators, especially those who challenge the administration’s policies on Israel.

    Published On: 05/07/2025

  • Global • Social Media

    Digital Authoritarianism

    Scot Nakagawa

    The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

    Lessons from Duterte's Philippines for the United States.

    Published On: 05/06/2025

  • Social Media

    Trump’s TikTok Takeover

    Oliver Darcy

    Status

    TikTok’s fate still remains unclear, but if it stays in the U.S., it won’t be free—it’ll be bound to Donald Trump, giving him and the GOP a propaganda machine like no other.

    Published On: 04/02/2025

  • Social Media

    Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on her company’s ascendant year and what she’s planning next

    MAX UFBERG

    Fast Company

    Yet Bluesky isn’t just a repository for social media’s disaffected. It’s also the best example of how “federation”—a buzzy Silicon Valley term that describes a structure wherein multiple independent groups collaborate to share information—can build a more equitable and independent social media experience.

    Published On: 03/18/2025

  • Social Media

    The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

    KAYLA GOGARTY

    Media Matters

    As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this content is overwhelmingly right-leaning.

    Published On: 03/14/2025

  • Social Media • Technology

    Move Fast and Destroy Democracy

    Kara Swisher

    The Atlantic

    Silicon Valley’s titans have decided that ruling the digital world is not enough.

    Published On: 03/09/2025

  • Social Media • Threat Management

    Amid Meta Policy Changes, Neo-Nazis Monetize Hate on Instagram

    Global Project Against Hate and Extremism

    globalextremism.org

    In this new more permissive online environment, an investigation by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) has discovered neo-Nazi activity flourishing on Instagram, including degrading hate speech, antisemitic conspiracism, and even Nazi symbols being used to sell merchandise.

    Published On: 02/06/2025

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