Category: Social Media

“Tech executives began to both realize that they can’t just ignore regulatory and political issues and that not all politicians and regulators are inherently st...

“‘People would be pissed if someone else leaked something,’ explained one former employee. ‘You don’t betray the family.’”

“Why did the CIA support [modern artists]? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the crea...

“Google’s approach — solve the hard technical problems first, worry about the business model later — is rooted in the engineering background of Google Founders ...

“For years, the benefits of anonymity on the Net outweighed its drawbacks. Now the problem is nobody can tell if you’re a troll. Or a hacker. Or a bot. Or a Mac...

“On Facebook, what you click on, what you share with your ‘friends’ shapes your profile, preferences, affinities, political opinions, and your vision of the wor...

“People wonder why their daughter is taking 10,000 photos a day. What they don’t realize is that she isn’t preserving images. She’s talking.”

“More than two out of three middle-schoolers couldn’t see any valid reason to mistrust a post written by a bank executive arguing that young adults need more fi...

“While it was likely never the company’s intent to create a system that encouraged people to hear only what they wanted — whether or not it was true — Facebook ...