Business, Business / National Affairs, Journalism 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…
Business, Business / National Affairs, National Affairs 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…