Nature, Published online: 28 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02733-9Nature talks to specialists about the changes coming to Facebook and Instagram, and whether thereās evidence they will help.
The unpopular Paramount Warner Brothers merger should have been a perfect opportunity for Democrats to demonstrate they are finally serious about stuff like media consolidation, right wing propaganda, media reform, and antitrust after decades of policy incoherence. Instead, numerous prominent Califoā¦
The official in charge of President Trump's ceasefire plan for Gaza criticized Israel for its attacks on the Palestinian territory and warned that the alternative to the U.S. proposal is the next war.
The country is continuing to reel from multiple infectious disease outbreaks in America, even as childhood vaccination rates continue to fall. Measles, cyclosporiasis, whooping cough: you donāt actually need me to go on. With RFK Jr. using his position as Secretary of HHS to further muddy the watersā¦
Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6ā3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties violate the First Amendment. Which is every bit as stupid and corrupt as it sounds. Previously, under the Federal ā¦
Compliant Technologies probably would have preferred to keep flying under the radar. But a gaudy new no-bid contract with ICE (worth up to $20 million!) made it impossible. Prior to ICEās big purchase, it may as well have never existed. It only had a few clients, and those few clients purchased a feā¦
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When Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a national security risk because it wouldnāt agree to his dangerously unethical demands for what Claude should be able to do, Anthropic sued to challenge the directives. One of the challenges was brought in the Northern District of California, where Anthropic hasā¦
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Thereās stillĀ a massive effort afootĀ to implement statewide āright to repairā laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you own.Ā All fifty states have at least flirted with the idea, though only Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Minnesotaā¦
Weāve been detailing the trademark bullying ways of Buc-eeās, famous gas station and convenience store chain in the American south and infamous IP bully, for over a year now. Buc-eeās seems to think that any semi-related business that has branding that involves a cartoon animal or in any way referenā¦
Flock Safety has been on the wrong side of the press cycle ā if not the wrong side of history ā for most of the last couple of years. Flockās automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are more comprehensive than many of those previously deployed by law enforcement agencies. Not only do they capture plā¦
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Imagine a scenario where a documentary filmmaker, in the course of making the documentary, captures some damning footage of corporate malfeasance, which she wishes to share with an investigative reporting organization anonymously. Should we be concerned that mandates on AI watermarking might reveal ā¦
The thing about raiding law offices is that they tend to be filled with people who actually know the law. A bunch of opportunistic ICE officers thought they might be able to talk their way into an illegal search, but that initiative (is that the word for this?) died out almost immediately when the iā¦
Last year, as decades of work by RFK Jr. to undermine vaccines with false links to deaths and autism culminated in his appointment to lead HHS, America saw the largest resurgence of measles cases in something like three decades. Three people died, including two children, all unvaccinated. Kennedy moā¦
As weāve been noting, billionaire Larry Ellisonās effort to dominate whatās left of corporate media is facing some headwinds after 12 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against his planned $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers. As weāve also noted, this is a giant turd of a deal, ā¦
Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly didnāt need it: HOA supervisors and gated communities. Then it realized there was far more money to be made by courting governments, rather than the richest parts of the private sector. Aā¦
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Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTokās US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get Oracle to change its tune on Section 230. While not as widely known outside of Silicon Valley, Oracle has been a driving forā¦
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Weāve been talking for a while now about how the rush (much of it driven by politiciansā obsession with Jonathan Haidtās mostly debunked book) to ban kids from social media is dangerously stupid. It misdiagnoses the problem and creates a solution that both does not work and makes actual problems worā¦
Whenever Trump doesnāt like the facts, he calls it āfake newsā or does what heās doing here: tries to shoot the messenger by threatening them with a lawsuit. The administration has been sending National Guard troops to various US cities ever since it became clear its mass deportation efforts werenātā¦
This article is republished fromĀ The ConversationĀ under a Creative Commons license. Read theĀ original article. Political action committees are responsible forĀ nearly two-thirds of all federal election funding, with about US$6.3 billion raised and $4.8 billion spent since January 2025. But their outsā¦
If Sony thought that the outrage over its decision to make the next PlayStation entirely disc-less was going to dissipate quickly, it was wrong. There are actually multiple organic campaigns to protest Sonyās decision to ditch physical media now. We already talked about the plans for a purchase and ā¦
Last March it was revealed that the Trump DOJ stabbed its antitrust lawsuit state partners in the back and struck a terrible settlement with Ticketmaster, scuttling a generational opportunity to break up one of the more glaring examples of modern monopoly power. Quite a curious choice for a Trump-adā¦
Until just recently, Flock never felt it needed to rehabilitate its image, even when several cities were dumping contracts and cameras over persistent surveillance concerns. When cities shut down systems, Flock just kept running. In some cases, it even installed cameras that without proper permits oā¦
Earlier this month I noted that Elon Muskās Starlink is giving very unsubtle indications that the company wants to jump into the wireless business. I also noted that thereās a very long list of reasons why this isnāt likely to go well for him, ranging from the extremely high cost of network build-ouā¦
Weāve moved into a new era where the administrationās constant cruelty, violence, and actual murders simply arenāt enough to keep Trump appeased or entertained. ICE is now goosing its arrest numbers by arresting holders of expired visas at domestic airports. Now weāre being treated to additional abjā¦
This week, MrWilson takes both top spots on the insightful side. In first place, itās a comment about opportunistic ICE arrests: ICE keeps trying to find more victims to prove the false narrative of how many undocumented immigrants there are in the country, so individual agents probably want to makeā¦
Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav oversaw years of dysfunction during the last wave of pointless Warner Brothers AT&T and Discovery mergers, which included tens of thousands of brutal layoffs, consistent creative infighting, endlessly higher prices, cancelled programming, and endless chaos. Unlike moā¦
Of all the things I thought the Trump administration would cause to enter the public lexicon, I certainly did not have screwworms on my list. If you somehow havenāt heard of this, screwworms are actually a fly that lays its eggs by burrowing into the flesh of other animals. Those animals are mostly ā¦
Iāve spent the better part of a lifetime studying and writing about the way corrupted lawmakers and U.S. telecom giants work hand in hand to erode U.S. broadband standards and mapping so they can obscure the way corruption and monopoly result in limited broadband competition ā resulting in shitty, eā¦
This news will come as no surprise to anyone. Those who have been following police misconduct revelations for years have seen this happen time and time and time and time again. Those who are in the business of engaging in police misconduct have known for years that itās easy to do and it seldom getsā¦
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Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, about half the states in the US have some internet age verification law in place, and dangerous propoā¦
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderationās Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice ā or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodā¦
Weāre not going to do a full rehash of the whole Reckless Ben / Bryan Mansell / Bricks & Minifigs saga here. Weāve already got a bunch of stories on it, and there are many other sources. But there is some news in the form of Bricks & Minifigs (BAM) āsettlingā with Mansell ā and [ā¦]
As youāll recall, RFK Jr., who is totally not checked out of his job at HHS, has managed to sneak in hosting a government sponsored cooking show in between not doing anything about the countryās problems with measles, cyclosporiasis, whooping cough, and so on. Well, two episodes are now out, and theā¦
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The easiest way to tell that Flock Safety doesnāt really care that its massive network of ALPR (automatic license plate reader) cameras is being abused by cops to stalk their exes and harass residents is to judge it by its actions. When confronted with court case after court case detailing these allā¦
If youāre looking for a career in cloud computing, thereās no better place to start than with the AWS certification. Whether you want to be an Architect or a Developer, these certifications open doors to incredible opportunities. But how do you get one? You need to use realistic exam simulators thatā¦
It still amazes me that there are people out there who think that Donald Trump is a supporter of free speech. It has never been true. Anyone who looks will note that the Trump administration regularly engages in clearly unconstitutional attempts to suppress speech. But because he and his supporters ā¦
The administration has no legitimate justification for this action. Itās all about inflicting as much literal pain as possible on anyone ICE officers happen to encounter. ImmigrationĀ and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended ā¦
This article is republished fromĀ The ConversationĀ under a Creative Commons license. Read theĀ original article. For decades, terrorism researchers have generally distinguished terrorism from other forms of violence by one defining feature:Ā the intentionĀ toĀ intimidate a wider audienceĀ beyond immediateā¦
As expected, this didnāt take very long. Earlier this week we pointed out that Donald Trump supplanted RFK Jr. as the worldās most infamous anti-vaxxer when he vomited out a bonkers executive order that reduced the recommended childhood vaccination schedule for American children, pared down which diā¦
Itās always the same routine. Before each giant merger the companies promise that the new combined entity will deliver the sea, moon, and stars. Weāre told the consolidation will result in untold synergies, massive job growth, and incredible new innovation. Yet in a country too corrupt to have functā¦
You may have seen news of the recent Fifth Circuit decision, with an opinion written by Judge Andrew Oldham, overturning a lower court ruling, and reinstating highly questionable ID requirements for mail-in ballots. We can debate how this decision blends two great MAGA obsessions, mail-in ballots anā¦
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This is why having a case dismissed with prejudice is important. Trumpās cronies/donors ā who were paid millions to do a job theyād never done before ā failed to bring the Lincoln Reflecting Pool up to spec by July 4th, preventing Trump from taking sole credit for everyone elseās hard work while turā¦
Bari Weiss is seeking out friendly interviewers at the New York Times to try and ācalm the firestorm engulfing her leadership of CBS News.ā By āleadershipā of course they mean censoring stories critical of the president, letting Benjamin Netanyahu pick his own interviewer (who he knows wonāt press hā¦
One of the key tools in the tool belt of the anti-vaxxer has long been VAERS, the voluntarily reporting system for adverse events following vaccinations. People who donāt really understand how any of this works often get very, very confused about what VAERS is and is not. It does not contain confirmā¦
To be clear, the FTC under Donald Trump and new boss Andrew Ferguson has been a dangerous embarrassment. Whether itās the firing of both Democratic Commissioners, the politically motivated investigations, the extremist attacks on trans people, the agencyās useless attacks on porn, or its efforts to ā¦
Itās no secret that Iām a fan of developmental psychologist Candice Odgers. Iāve mentioned her and her work on the site many times, and she was a guest on my podcast as well. She actually has expertise and has done the work to look at the impact of social media on kids. In many ways [ā¦]
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Another senior Trump administration official is gleefully showing off his true colors: The current general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published an opinion column with the Heritage Foundationās news outlet The Daily Signal calling for stronger obscenity regulation.Ā From ā¦
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This story wasĀ originally publishedĀ by ProPublica.Ā Republished under aĀ CC BY-NC-ND 3.0Ā license. Last month, my colleagues and I published anĀ investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First Refining, that had secretly gotten investment from Donald Trump Jr. We discovered a saga involviā¦
The long-rumored layoffs at Xbox have come and they are massive. We just recently discussed the mess that Microsoftās Xbox division has become. An internal email that was sent to staff by CEO Asha Sharma laid out just how bad things were, essentially preparing the staff for the forthcoming staffing ā¦
Good news!(?) Itās good news of sorts, so weāll go with a qualified āgood news!ā here. Thereās a little table setting that needs to be done to explain why itās better now than it was before the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court continued ingratiating itself to race-motivated tyranny. I realize thatās not ā¦
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For over a decade, a particular argument keeps resurfacing from well-meaning progressives: the rise of authoritarianism around the globe is a good reason to pass laws suppressing speech. The idea is that somehow, magically, without free speech, authoritarians and fascists would never come to power iā¦
For a while there, you might remember how giant telecom monopolies, running out of new subscribers, all decided to get into the media business. But because terrible telecom monopoly executives canāt innovate and generally donāt know how competition works, it never really goes that well. The various ā¦
This story wasĀ originally publishedĀ by ProPublica.Ā Republished under aĀ CC BY-NC-ND 3.0Ā license. In late November in Jamnagar, India, the scions of two of the most powerful families in the world stood face-to-face. On one side was 30-year-old Anant Ambani, son of one of the richest men in Asia. On thā¦
Sony just gave the world another lesson in how they donāt actually own the content theyāve bought digitally generally, and particularly not through Sonyās digital storefronts. Instead, as readers here will largely know, what is actually being bought is a temporary license to download and play these ā¦
Civil rights groups like the Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) have noted how Elon Muskās Colossus xAI data centers in MemphisĀ disproportionately pollute the air in minority neighborhoods. AĀ joint lawsuitĀ by SELC, Earthjustice, and the NAACP filed last April argued that Musk and friends didnāā¦
ICE has already been operating like a paramilitary kidnapping squad. Officers roam through neighborhoods, stake out hardware store parking lots, and even occasionally enjoy some ethnic food just so they can raid the source of hospitality later. Itās nasty, disturbing, and definitely doesnāt resembleā¦
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Itās hard to believe that the same people who spent the Biden years screaming that Democrats were āsocialistsā out to destroy free market capitalism are now cheerfully handing the federal government ownership stakes in private companies. And yet here we are. Just as Trumpists have decided that theirā¦
This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to the German court ruling that Google is liable for false claims in its AI overviews. In first place, itās an anonymous comment about Bruce Schneierās reaction to the ruling: In second place, itās A Guy with the first comment on thā¦
Despite a lot of pretense, Meta, permanently deadbolted to Mark Zuckerbergās outsized ego, simply isnāt an interesting, ethical, competent, or innovative company. Theyāre mostly an ad monopoly pretending to be Apple. They poured untold billions of dollars into their soggy and broadly uninteresting mā¦
The authoritarianism has been out in the open pretty much since day one with this presidency. Things that leak out around the edges ā unaccompanied by official statements, announcements, or randomly-capitalized Truth Social posts ā would embarrass any normal administration. But with this administratā¦
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Trump-appointed Louisiana federal judge Terry Doughty has spent years bending over backwards trying to help some MAGA faithful manufacture nonsense claims about ācensorshipā for some grifters getting moderated on social media. As youāll recall, he issued a bizarrely problematic ruling on July 4th thā¦
In Larry Sangerās recent failed attempt to start a āWikiProject Intellectual Diversityā, he tried to recruit his followers to help him change Wikipediaās rules around representation of viewpoints, religions, parties, and nationalities (a version of his earlier āNine Thesesā). The draft WikiProject wā¦