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But layoffs that last months are worse, as Mark Zuckerberg may soon find out.


The science fiction pioneer on making a template for Mark Zuckerberg, not making movies, and a worrisome climate change scenario.


You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs. Now Meta and Twitter want your money, too.


Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking.

Thailand’s king has terrible fashion sense and likes wearing fake tattoos. He’s also disturbingly authoritarian.


Elizabeth Olsen plays a young widow in this thoughtful and loving series about navigating grief.

Your shopping habits, your family members’ names, even your salary is out there for anyone to see. But you can take back control.


A jokey Facebook event has gone viral thanks to the power of shitposting.


You’ll want to delete your Facebook account.


How social platforms enable far-right politicians’ campaigns to undermine democracy.


From data privacy scandals to Russian interference, 2018 has been quite a year for Facebook.


Zuckerberg has an enormous amount of voting power at Facebook, meaning he’s not going anywhere.

And why some on the right are calling it “collusion.”


A visual of how it all fits together. They’re now shutting down.


If lawmakers want to regulate Facebook, they might need to get on the same page about what problem they’re trying to solve.


“We’re always on, always plugged in, always stimulated, always in a constant state of self-presentation.”


A conversation with historian of science Michael Bess.


One of the world’s richest people is giving a chunk of his fortune to some of the world’s poorest people.


A researcher has been investigating who (and why) people unfriend.