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Inside Biden’s Billion-Dollar Broadband Boondoggle
The president promised to connect rural Americans to the internet. But ‘woke leftist policies’ have helped prevent the $42 billion scheme from servicing…
Madeleine Rowley
I Joined TikTok Refugees on RedNote. Here’s What It’s Like.
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this.
River Page
Could Trump Buy TikTok?
TikTok seems doomed—unless an unlikely savior rides to the rescue, Joe Nocera reports.
Joe Nocera
Emperor Elon
The sun never sets on the land where Musk commands attention and allegiance. How should we feel about being his subjects?
Nellie Bowles
Facebook’s Fact-Checkers Changed the Way I See Tech—and Speech—Forever
I thought I was sharing an important story on Covid’s origins. How naive I was.
Margi Conklin
New Report: TikTok Brainwashed America’s Youth
China’s ‘indoctrination isn’t hypothetical. It’s real.’
Jay Solomon
How Jonathan Haidt Won the Fight Against Smartphones in Schools
His book has gained bipartisan fans from Barack Obama to Bill Gates to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Olivia Reingold reports on the Haidt effect.
Olivia Reingold
Jesse Singal: Bluesky Has a Death Threat Problem
It was supposed to be a gentler, left-wing alternative to X. My grim experience proves that just isn’t the case.
Jesse Singal
Mass Hysteria? Iran? China? The U.S. Military? How the Leading Drone Theories Stack Up.
“I find the message from the administration that everyone is hallucinating to be gaslighting,” says Rep. Ritchie Torres. “There’s obviously a there…
Madeleine Kearns
Marc Andreessen on AI, Tech, Censorship, and Dining with Trump
The billionaire on the left’s war on Silicon Valley, why AI censorship is “a million times more dangerous” than social media censorship, and why he’s…
Bari Weiss
2HR 6M
My Smartphone Was Ruining My Life. So I Quit.
And you can, too.
August Lamm
Meet the Women with AI Boyfriends
‘I didn’t see it as cheating at all.’ For some, chatbots are a way out of toxic relationships.
Julia Steinberg
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