Social Media

Since Washington launched the Wuhan lab leak investigation, Beijing has been pushing bizarre narratives.

As the Federal Trade Commission chair, the best thing she can do to regulate tech is nothing.

The social media company faces tough questions in talks with the government to restore access to 40 million users.

A hasty and extralegal restriction has been imposed by an increasingly tyrannical president.

Big Tech companies see an opportunity for growth on the continent, but they risk becoming accessories to authoritarian regimes.

China’s wolf warrior diplomacy has discovered the Middle East, catching Washington unprepared.

In deciding what to do about Donald Trump, the platform’s own “Supreme Court” punted.

Apple cutting the social media giant off from iPhone user data could force a healthy change.

A new book emphasizes the perils of social media campaigns and the limits of military intervention in saving Nigeria’s Chibok children.

With media bans and treason charges, well-financed conspiracy peddlers are being shut down.

“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.

This isn’t about regulating Big Tech. It’s about fleecing foreigners for news that Australians no longer want to pay for.

Lisa Davies, the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, talks to Foreign Policy about Facebook’s decision to block news for its users in Australia.

Beijing has blocked the social app after a brief flowering of open discussion.

If platforms aren’t going to enforce their rules properly, they should go back to Athenian ostracism.

Capitalism is making decisions that democracy should.

Liberal democracies must work to recreate a sense of shared identity online.

Social media’s manufactured hate needs solutions beyond censorship.

The coziness between Washington and Big Tech is over.