August 18, 2021 How Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are handling the Taliban Taliban fighters stand along a road in Kabul on August 18. | Hoshang Hashimi/AFP/Getty Images The world might accept the Taliban as a legitimate…
August 16, 2021 Why no one really knows how bad Facebook’s vaccine misinformation problem is Getty Images/iStockphoto Some researchers say that Facebook isn’t being transparent enough about Covid-19 content on its platform. Is Facebook “killing people” by enabling the…
August 12, 2021 Working motherhood is getting harder. Let’s fix that. Michelle Kondrich for Vox American motherhood versus the American work ethic. Melissa Danowski, an appellate attorney in New York state, is a feminist. She…
August 10, 2021 The controversy over Apple’s plan to protect kids by scanning your iPhone Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The privacy-first company’s invasive approach isn’t going over well with many. Apple, the company that proudly…
August 6, 2021 The SEC greenlights a plan to make company boards more diverse In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, companies promised to make their boards more diverse. | FangXiaNuo…
August 6, 2021 “People do not trust that Facebook is a healthy ecosystem” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying virtually to Congress in July 2020. | Mandel Ngan/Getty Images Leading social media researcher Laura Edelson explains her misinformation…
August 5, 2021 The chip shortage is getting worse New trucks sit next to a race track at the Kentucky Speedway as Ford waits for more semiconductor shipments to arrive. | Jeffrey Scott…
August 5, 2021 The chip shortage is getting worse New trucks sit next to a race track at the Kentucky Speedway as Ford waits for more semiconductor shipments to arrive. | Jeffrey Scott…
August 4, 2021 Streaming space tourism is the new reality TV Civilian astronauts practice floating in microgravity. | John Kraus/Courtesy of Netflix You can’t afford space tourism. But you’ll be able to watch it on…
August 3, 2021 The Amazon union drive isn’t over yet Pro-union voting signage hangs outside the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images A unionization effort might get…