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One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack – January 2021

CPJ’s Impunity Index has shown that, in eight out of 10 cases, the killers of journalists go free. On August…

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The Smoking Gun in the Facebook Antitrust Case

Last year saw a conceptual breakthrough on that front. In a paper titled “The Antitrust Case Against Facebook,” the legal…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Journalism

One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack – December 2020

In May 2019, WIRED joined the One Free Press Coalition, a united group of preeminent editors and publishers using their…

Business, Business / National Affairs, lessons

What the EU Gets Right—and the US Gets Wrong—About Antitrust

There’s a growing bipartisan consensus in the US to rein in the massive power accumulated by dominant tech firms. From…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Social Media

The Senate’s Section 230 Discourse Somehow Keeps Getting Dumber

Today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg covered a lot of ground, in the sense that…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Watched

Apps Are Now Putting the Parole Agent in Your Pocket

That is the second problem these apps are trying to fix: officers are overloaded. Statistics are hard to come by…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Politics

Trump Broke the Internet. Can Joe Biden Fix It?

The DOJ isn’t the only source of anti-monopoly enforcement. The Federal Trade Commission has enormous, mostly unused power to rewrite…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Journalism

One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack – November 2020

In May 2019, WIRED joined the One Free Press Coalition, a united group of preeminent editors and publishers using their…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Encryption, security

How Police Can Crack Locked Phones—and Extract Information

Smartphone security measures have grown increasingly sophisticated in recent years, evolving from passcodes to thumbprints to face recognition and advanced…

Business, Business / National Affairs, Outbreak, Science

Testing Alone Won’t Stop Covid. Just Look at the White House

“Testing alone is not actually protective of anybody without a contact tracing and isolation program, and without use of masks…