Jacob Silverman

@SilvermanJacob

Driven by personal grievances and a misguided sense of their own exceptionalism, tech titans are swerving right and amplifying reactionary MAGA politics.

Joseph Weizenbaum’s underrated book “Computer Power and Human Reason” cautioned against confusing people with machines.

Digital currency enthusiasts can scream all they want about the Biden administration conspiring against them, but they brought this on themselves.

Kerry Howley’s new book shows how the government distorts reality to turn whistleblowers into public enemies.

The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York has become one of the country’s chief financial watchdogs.

Like his pals Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, Sacks is using his wealth and online clout to unite conservatives and former leftists in a reactionary movement against liberalism.

Depraved grifters compounded the misery of Covid-19 by defrauding Americans through bitcoin, NFTs, and meme stocks.

For some crypto holders, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an opportunity⁠—and a validation of their increasingly radical beliefs.

Mark Zuckerberg’s overhyped hybrid virtual/physical world is a distraction from the company’s real problems—and ours.

The Taliban may have access to American-made technology built to wage a Forever War. That’s only half the problem.

Workers won an important decision in a California court, but with companies like Uber and Lyft vowing to fight it, the war over Prop 22 and copycat legislation has only just begun.

Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab, represents the new, even more right-wing alternative to Silicon Valley.

How the transparency collective DDoSecrets eclipsed Julian Assange

The Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan is an extreme, though not entirely unique, test case for the power and the peril of these platforms.

Their bottomless culture-war obsessions have made a mess of the withdrawal debate.

It’s August 13, and you know what that means: Mike Lindell and his legion of MAGA die-hards are waiting for the former president to take back the White House. There’s still time!

Crypto’s attempts to foment a libertarian exit from mainstream politics and finance may be more difficult than its true believers assumed.

Warehouse workers in Bessemer may get a union do-over, the Teamsters have the commerce behemoth in their sights, and antitrust momentum may be growing in Biden’s administration. What now?

The White House is putting money into pro-vaccine influencer campaigns while dropping the ball on essential efforts to save Americans from eviction and poverty.

“Enemies of the State” and “United States v. Reality Winner” explore profound questions of secrecy, whistleblowing, and justice.