Rupert Murdoch renewed his attacks on Google and Facebook during News Corp’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday, accusing the tech giants of trying to silence conservative voices and calling for "significant reform."

“The Manchurian Candidate” was a Cold War political thriller book turned into a black-and-white movie.

The U.K.’s recently appointed secretary of state for digital, Nadine Dorries, has signalled she wants to take a tougher line on social media platforms than her predecessor — telling a parliamentary committee she’s looking at speeding up the application of criminal sanctions for br…

There is reason to believe that the business models of social media firms are causing serious problems for U.S. society as a whole.

It's getting harder to avoid the algorithm.

It’s a mess in there

Twitter doesn’t know what causes this issue

  In September 2021, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen leaked thousands of the company’s internal documents to the Wall Street Journal. This information consequently sparked a bipartisan conversation about the harms of social media. “Facebook consistently resolved those conflicts in favor of its own profits. The result has been a system that amplifies division, extremism...

A few months ago, a friend of mine logged into her Instagram on my phone. Later in the day, I found myself killing time by scrolling through social media having forgotten that she was still logged in. 

Mr. Chairman Blumenthal: (00:04) [crosstalk 00:00:04]. Mr. Chairman Blumenthal: (02:54) So, welcome my colleagues and I want to thank Ranking Member Senato