If you don’t want conflict or controversy, don’t pretend you want to be where the news is. And don’t be surprised if your platform mostly appeals to conventional people who all agree with each other.
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Meta and Google recently lost a bellwether case accusing them of exacerbating children’s mental health struggles by intentionally addicting them to unhealthy social media.
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For those familiar with the novel Brave New World, this distracted, dopamine-addled brand of a society was all but predicted almost a century ago.
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This new litany of complaints feels like it will be a lot tougher for the tech behemoth to successfully battle.
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Social media addictions clearly cause harm among minors but the tech giants who profit by them won’t regulate themselves in any meaningful way.
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Google says it was largely at the government’s behest. The Biden administration apparently believed in censorship far more than many Americans realized.
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Shows like Kimmel’s and Colbert’s have long abandoned the usual attempts at humor, which has historically included taking jabs at both sides of the aisle.
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Research presented at a 2025 Microsoft Research meet finds that people tend to think less carefully and critically when they rely on GenAI and online sources.
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As trust in legacy journalism erodes, more time and energy will get funneled into independent media and X isn’t playing fair here.
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Ted Gioia writes, books “offer an escape from the degraded digital domains, where duplicity is now dictated by the largest platforms with the richest owners.”
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According to a report from Reuters, Meta, parent company of Facebook, has allowed its chatbot to flirt and have “sensual” conversations with children. Meta AI is now accessible on various Meta platforms, and age limits are essentially suggestions, not requirements. Anyone can lie about their age and create an account. Jeff Horwitz writes, These and other findings emerge from a Reuters review of the Meta document, which discusses the standards that guide its generative AI assistant, Meta AI, and chatbots available on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, the company’s social-media platforms. Meta confirmed the document’s authenticity, but said that after receiving questions earlier this month from Reuters, the company removed portions which stated it is permissible for chatbots to flirt and engage Read More ›
As a veteran journalist puts it, once you build a co-dependence like that, you lose public trust. People are just not going to believe you.
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People are likely to encounter online pornography even if they don’t actively seek it out. That’s how pervasively adult content inundates the internet.
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Chatbots have been trained on such stories. People forget it’s just a machine and panic because they think of it as a person who really thinks things.
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The alternative to the First Amendment is a narratocracy in which a society’s commanding institutions determine what stories are allowed and disallowed.
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His solution?: More technology, not less. Meta has made billions of dollars monetizing our attention. Why not monetize our loneliness, too?
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After the 2016 election, Google leadership decided to prevent voters it saw as populist and low-information from deciding future presidential elections.
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Robert Epstein is the former editor of Psychology Today who, as I discussed yesterday, has studied the ways in which Google can manipulate public opinion.
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Epstein, working through web projects, also provides a sobering assessment of how much Google monitors what average Internet users are doing online.
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Unlike the surveillance capitalism crowd, Carr doesn’t just rail against Big Tech’s designs; he interrogates our willing participation.
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