big tech Eoin Higgins'"Owned" is a harrowing history of the right-wing billionaire tech takeover Thom Dunn
Business Cambridge Analytica is out of business, but its heavy hitters have reopened under a new name Cory Doctorow
Science Koch-backed climate deniers are exploiting the reproducibility crisis to discredit climate science Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Palantir has figured out how to make money by using algorithms to ascribe guilt to people, now they're looking for new customers Cory Doctorow
Business For years, Facebook has been secretly deleting Zuck's messages from his correspondents' inboxes Cory Doctorow
crowdfunding Kickstarting a public radio-backed revival of Gothamist, a beloved site killed by an evil, union-hating Trumpist billionaire Cory Doctorow
surveillance The idea behind Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data-harvesting app came from a Palantir employee, with support from Eric Schmidt's daughter Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Cambridge Analytica became a US powerhouse thanks Mercer's laundered money and a judas goat named John Bolton Cory Doctorow
surveillance Billionaire Cartier boss returns from fishing holiday gripped with terror that the poors are going to start building guillotines Cory Doctorow
Business Just because Cambridge Analytica tells its customers it can sway elections, it doesn't follow that they're any good at it Cory Doctorow
drugs The pharma billionaires whose family company created the opioid epidemic are disintegrating into a bickering mess Cory Doctorow
trumpism Rumour mill says that the Mercers are going to axe Bannon from Breitbart over "Fire and Fury" remarks Cory Doctorow
cable company fuckery Cities want to opportunistically lay fiber lines during big digs, but Koch dark money is trying to stop them Cory Doctorow
Business Mark Zuckerberg sues over 100 Hawaiians to force them to sell them their ancestral land Cory Doctorow
diversity Project Include cuts off Y Combinator because Peter Thiel is a part-time investor there Cory Doctorow
musk Elon Musk, from behind a massive army of bodyguards, now tweeting 150+ times a day Rob Beschizza
