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

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?

Decades of disruption made Silicon Valley rich, but its ideology of technological solutionism failed the rest of us. It’s time to reinvest in public goods.

Rounding out his appointments with the new antitrust chief, the president has found a team bold enough to challenge the terms of our economic dystopia head-on.

The new FTC commissioner has the authority, instincts, and acumen to meaningfully rein in the power of companies like Facebook and Amazon. That’s why they hate her.

The Democrats’ plan to take on Big Tech is divided between slipshod legislative and regulatory efforts. Can small bites get the job done, or do we need more sweeping proposals?

The former president’s class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook is a typically ham-fisted grab for power and money. It can die in the courts and still serve him well.

A Georgia start-up aims to become the Airbnb for temporary shared housing. It calls it a solution to the housing crisis. Former tenants tell a different story.

The crime-reporting app has big plans: live broadcasts, for-hire private security details, and a growing user base of freaked-out customers. It’s building a paranoid, profitable future.

Bitcoin provides entreé to a wildcat market dominated by fraudsters. The ex-president clearly recognizes his milieu.

The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.

Hackers extorted millions from Colonial Pipeline, and now they’ve struck the meatpacking giant JBS. There’s one clear way to prevent future attacks.

The tech giant may be opening its own pharmacies, and Google wants to mine patient data. The goal is not to fix a broken system but to exploit it.

Through ads and op-eds, Facebook is leaning into the demand for more regulation—but only on its preferred terms. Don’t trust it.

As Bitcoin’s price fell by up to 30 percent, its partisans went on Clubhouse and Twitter to offer reassurances and advice to “go outside, go exercise—just don’t follow the swings.”

The Tesla executive’s reversal affirms that Bitcoin is an environmentally wasteful multilevel marketing scheme. But the true believers won’t hear it.

Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.

The popular chat app is exploding in popularity in some Middle Eastern countries. Can it keep its users safe?

The Facebook Oversight Board upheld Trump’s ban, but ridiculed the company in the process: “In applying a vague, standardless penalty ... Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities.”

The senator’s new book is a case study in why conservatives struggle to be populists.