Gabriele de Seta and P. Kerim Friedman say we must demystify “the algorithm,” demand transparency, and give ordinary users tools to control their feeds.

The fediverse promises an egalitarian, noncommercial alternative to Big Tech for social media, but there’s a lot of work needed to make it work.

Elon Musk announced more changes are coming to his platform X because he feels "too much negativity" is being pushed on it, and hilariously, he continues t

The big picture: Facebook's latest content-moderation pivot looks like part of a plan to win over Donald Trump as he takes power again. But the field Zuckerberg is abandoning is one he never wanted to play on in the first place.

Most election post-mortems neglect a key determinant of how people vote — where they get their news.

Following a ban on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform in Brazil, could X be blocked, partially or otherwise, in the U.S. or the EU?

A federal appeals court ruling finds that Section 230 protections may not apply to algorithms. That could (potentially) be a big problem for the internet.

Inside the tech industry's 'broletariat revolution' against the media.

The bill is expected to get through the Senate as soon as this week, and will almost certainly be signed into law by President Biden.

In Governable Spaces, Nathan Schneider argues that the internet has been plagued by a phenomenon he calls “implicit feudalism”: a bias, both cultural and technical, for building communities as fiefdoms. The consequences have spread far beyond online spaces themselves.