Tag: Google
The old news business model is broken: making Google and Facebook...
Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology
The federal government is talking tough about making Google and Facebook pay Australian news businesses for linking to, or...
Why Facebook antitrust case relies so heavily on Mark Zuckerberg’s emails
Rebecca Haw Allensworth, Vanderbilt University
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s own words play a starring role in the government’s case to break up his social network.
“It...
Vital Signs. Google shouldn’t subsidise journalism, but the government could
Richard Holden, UNSW
You might have missed it – what with the biggest recession since the 1930s and a pandemic going on – but there...
Craigslist turns 25 – a reminder that a more democratic version...
Jessa Lingel, University of Pennsylvania
Fake news. Online surveillance. Phishing scams. Biased algorithms.
It’s easy to be cynical about the internet, and harder to remember a...
What Amazon, Walmart employees risk when they use the workplace for...
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
It has somehow become sort of normal to use the workplace to protest social issues unrelated to the job...
You’d be better off lighting your money on fire than giving...
Liberty Vittert, Washington University in St Louis
Alright, you want to make this country a better place for yourself, your children and the many generations...
How much is your data worth to tech companies? Lawmakers want...
Samuel Lengen, University of Virginia
New proposed legislation by U.S. senators Mark R. Warner and Josh Hawley seeks to protect privacy by forcing tech companies...
Principle behind Google’s April Fools’ pigeon prank proves more than a...
Edward Wasserman, University of Iowa; Richard Levenson, University of California, Davis, and Victor Navarro, University of Iowa
Google’s 2002 April Fools’ Day joke purportedly disclosed...