If you don't take Oliver Anthony's surprise hit song too seriously, it's a lot of fun. Regrettably, a lot of people are taking the song much too seriously indeed.
Plus: A listener inquires about the potential positive effects of ranked-choice voting reforms.
Humanity has always adjusted to the reliability of new information sources.
Plus: A warning about trigger warnings, Biden blocks uranium mining near Grand Canyon, and more...
The Kids Online Safety Act imposes an amorphous "duty of care" that would compromise anonymous speech and restrict access to constitutionally protected content.
Unwired makes an unconvincing argument for heavy-handed tech regulation.
A new documentary film argues that the second-largest website on the planet is flooded with misinformation. Is that right?
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern this Thursday for a discussion with director Alex Winter about his new documentary The YouTube Effect.
New research on Facebook before the 2020 election finds scant evidence to suggest algorithms are shifting our political views.
"Can someone quickly remind me why we were removing—rather than demoting/labeling—claims that Covid is man made," asked Meta's president for global affairs.
The E.U.’s Digital Services Act will encourage censorship around the world and even in the U.S.
The senators say they're creating an "independent, bipartisan regulator charged with licensing and policing the nation's biggest tech companies." What could go wrong?
The independent journalist talks about true press freedom, the Twitter Files, Russiagate, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Plus: court strikes down Arizona law against filming cops, GOP candidates want to cut Social Security for young people, and more...
Schools don't get to censor nondisruptive off-campus speech.
The country's favorite blue-collar champion calls attention to the 'skills gap' and asks why young men spend so much time online.
Plus: GOP candidate defends “limited role of government” in parental decisions for transgender kids, some common sense about Diet Coke and cancer, and more…
One thing is clear about Missouri v. Biden: The decision cannot be understood by viewing it through a polarized lens.
"Disinformation" researchers alarmed by the injunction against government meddling with social media content admire legal regimes that allow broad speech restrictions.
The response to the decision illustrates the alarming erosion of bipartisan support for the First Amendment.
The new energy drink has about as much caffeine as a large Starbucks coffee.
Plus: A listener questions last week’s discussion of the Supreme Court's decision involving same-sex wedding websites and free expression.
Plus: Groups ask Supreme Court to say public officials can't block people, latest jobs report shows openings down, and more...
Unfortunately, there is reason to doubt that the judge's decision will meaningfully constrain the feds.
Plus: Teaching A.I. about the Fourth of July, and more...
If you can't force a web designer to serve a gay wedding, can you force a web platform to serve a politician?
Plus: Maine prostitution measure becomes law, "significant misconduct" in jail where Epstein hung himself, Mike Pence defends free markets, and more...
The New York Times tries to blame social media for conspiracy theories that have been around for decades. Don't fall for it.
When your business relies on volunteer moderators and user-generated content, angry denizens can threaten the whole enterprise.
But don't expect taxpayers to rescue adventurers when they fail, either.
Confirmation of Wuhan scientists as "patients zero" makes the lab leak theory look likely—and the misinformation police look like fools.
Plus: RIP Daniel Ellsberg, the Pioneers of Capitalism, and more...
New mandates in states like Utah and Virginia will lock in large incumbents like PornHub while discouraging positive trends and self-regulation in the industry.
Plus: Court using anti-pornography software to track a criminal defendant, $25 million verdict against Starbucks over fired employee, and more...
The You Can't Joke About That author says that free speech and dark humor can bring a fragmented country together.
Online platforms should resist binding us all to the rules of censorship-happy jurisdictions.
"We find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech."
Plus: Debt ceiling deal passes House, Congress wants to childproof the internet, lactation consultant licensing law is unconstitutional, and more...
How online “child protection” measures could make child and adult internet users more vulnerable to hackers, identity thieves, and snoops.
Whether the putative target is the "biomedical security state," wokeness, "Big Tech censors," or Chinese Communists, the presidential candidate’s grandstanding poses a clear threat to individual rights.
The few good studies on teen depression and social media undercut attempts to establish causal connections between the two.
The record penalty seems to be based less on the Facebook parent company's lax data practices than the U.S. intelligence community's data-collection programs.
Expect the very foundations of the internet to come under attack from politicians and the mainstream media.
A new report calls for policy makers to take action when none is required.
