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June 2, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
News Formats Change, But the Content Stays the Same
Things people want to read haven't changed much since the dawn of mass media.
April 20, 2015
Doug Bock Clark
The Bot Bubble
How click farms have inflated social media currency
April 3, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
How Will Hillary Break the Internet?
By announcing her candidacy with these hip technologies
March 8, 2015
Bryan Appleyard
The Happiness Conspiracy
Against optimism and the cult of positive thinking
January 5, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Undersharing on Facebook Has Become a Bigger Crime Than Oversharing
December 28, 2014
Eric Sasson
Facebook Shouldn't Apologize for "Year in Review"—You Should, for Using It
December 16, 2014
Theodore R. Johnson
Don't Let "Black Lives Matter" Become Another Ice Bucket Challenge
December 1, 2014
Jonathan Cohn
GOP Staffer Shouldn't Have Scolded Sasha and Malia on Facebook. But She Shouldn't Resign.
November 14, 2014
Sally Kohn
Feminists Need to Stop Sounding False Alarms About Sexism
October 23, 2014
Rebecca Traister
Freaking Out Over Facebook's Egg Freezing Is Just Another Way to Police Women's Choices
September 30, 2014
Alice Robb
People Use Fewer First-Person Pronouns As They Get Older
July 1, 2014
Alice Robb
Facebook Did Screw With You, and It Wasn’t Even Worth It
May 5, 2014
Adam Kirsch
Dear Facebook, I'm Fed Up
How social media has changed indignation
March 23, 2014
Noam Scheiber
The Brutal Ageism of Tech
Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete

March 5, 2014
Alec MacGillis
A Small But Auspicious Gun Control Victory: Facebook Is Cracking Down on Illegal Gun Sales
January 30, 2014
Noah Chestnut
NFL Fans Are Crazy, Say Facebook Scientists
Surprising patterns emerge from millions of fan posts
September 9, 2013
Noreen Malone
Popular Culture Has Soured on Silicon Valley's Hotshots
July 30, 2013
Molly Redden
Facebook Isn't the Key to Catching Terrorists
June 17, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
The Tyranny of Facebook 'Like' Button Stories
June 11, 2013
Chris Hughes
Big Data Is Not Our Master
Humans create technology. Humans can control it.

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