Opinion

Banning TikTok Hurts Higher EducationIf professors in 16 US states can’t use the platform at work, they won’t be able to research this communication pillar—or teach their students about it.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Jessica Maddox Powered by WPeMatico

Iran’s Internet Blackouts Are Part of a Global MenaceRepressive regimes are teaching each other how to control protesters’ web access with increasingly surgical precision.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Yasmin Green Powered by WPeMatico

The Facebook Papers Must Be Shared With Outlets GloballyThe news consortium exposing the company’s worldwide abuses hasn’t included the journalists best equipped to report on them—those in the global south.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Annia Ciezadlo Powered by WPeMatico

There Is No Bipartisan Consensus on Big TechThe media’s rose-colored rhetoric on cooperation across the aisle is overblown—and threatens the road to substantive regulation.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Justin Sherman Powered by WPeMatico

In Russia, Apple and Google Staff Get Muscled Up By the StateWhen US tech companies opened offices there, it was supposed to mitigate oppression. Instead those workers are now vulnerable to threats from local authorities.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Justin Sherman Powered by WPeMatico

Psychologists Are Learning What Religion Has Known for YearsSocial scientists are researching what humans can do to improve their quality of life. Their findings echo what religious practices perfected centuries ago.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124David DeSteno Powered by WPeMatico

Apple’s Privacy Mythology Doesn’t Match RealityThe company’s claims cloak threats to millions of users’ iCloud, iMessage, and facial verification data.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Albert Fox Cahn, Evan Selinger Powered by WPeMatico

I’m Not a Reporter. But I’m Verified as One on TwitterA new program makes getting a blue checkmark too easy for ‘journalists’—and far too difficult for activists.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Albert Fox Cahn Powered by WPeMatico

Global Democracies Need to Align to Fight DisinformationBefore authoritarians pollute the 2022 midterms, the US and EU must build a blueprint for democratic internet governance.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Samuel Woolley, Miroslava Sawiris Powered by WPeMatico