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The Internet and Its Discontents

One young woman claims to know what is wrong with girls today: They need to turn to the right.

Gen Z increasingly relies on influencers for news and information—but the quality is all over the place.

It is foolish to suggest that competition anywhere proves that a company isn’t a monopoly.

These aren’t your 2024 deepfakes. Bad actors will go for broke using state-of-the-art AI tools to blunt voters’ confidence in elections.

There’s money in bigotry, and specialized crowdfunding platforms are where to get it.

Even users don’t like it. So when you ask juries to render verdicts, they’re inclined to punish the platforms.

How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class