Facebook’s privacy PR implosion began on Friday, March 17th,  when the company tried to pre-empt forthcoming reports in The New York Times and the Gua...

In the space of a few days, Facebook's gotten itself back in the spotlight over its role in the 2016 election, dropped over $50 billion from its marke...

Once, the internet was a utopia, a new intellectual commons. Then it was a goldmine, where new businesses would stake their claim. For the past couple...

Last fall, the tech world was a-twitter over a post by Google employee James Damore suggesting the company’s gender diversity problem might have more ...

Since the 2016 presidential election, Facebook’s drawn charges of amplifying fake news, selling political ads to Russia-associated accounts, and faili...

According to figures from San Francisco, on a typical weekday, companies like Uber and Lyft account for about 570,000 vehicle miles logged on city str...

Every one of us lives in two places: in the flesh-and-blood physical world, and in the sprawling collection of data that we spin off every time we ope...

Guest:  Sara Wachter-Boettcher [1],  a web consultant who works on designing things for people to use – and has just written a book about how that pro...

In the past two weeks, investigations into Russian influence have hit US social media firms on two different fronts. The first was a series of hearing...

America's anti-trust laws were created after cutting-edge technologies, like rail travel, created natural monopolies. Are they up to dealing with toda...