How Facebook’s revolutionary News Feed kicked off the age of algorithms
It is two decades since Facebook introduced the News Feed – letting loose a world in which algorithms…
Ireland should ask Mark Zuckerberg the next time we need billions to look like money well spent
Stephen McDermott HOW WOULD YOU spend €15.4 billion? You could build about seven National Children’s Hospitals, one-and-a-half Metrolinks…
How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members
Dialog, the private network cofounded by Peter Thiel, grades its event attendees on a hidden scale, ranking them…
EU clinches deal to roll back AI restrictions – POLITICO
The Cypriot presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament confirmed the agreement following…
‘Pure bullshit’: Macron slams tech giants’ claim they are defending free speech – POLITICO
“All the algorithms have biases, we know that. There is no doubt,” he said. “And they are so…
“All my fundees have blue eyes” Jeffrey Epstein and Silicon Valley’s dark ideology
It starts with a simple search term in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. “Blue eyes.” Hundreds of…
Unequal Rules on the Same Platform: Facebook’s Role in Political Competition
The following is a press release kindly provided to us by MCC Brussels. A new analysis, based on…
Orbán’s government accuses Facebook of undermining his reelection campaign – POLITICO
Facebook is an important platform in Hungarian politics, and Magyar has regularly used it to appeal to voters…
Poland faces millions in EU fines as president vetoes tech bill – POLITICO
Deputy Digital Minister Dariusz Standerski said in a TV interview that, “since the president decided to veto this…
Polish president aligns with Trump to block Brussels’ Big Tech law – POLITICO
Nawrocki argued that while the bill’s stated aim of protecting citizens — particularly minors — was legitimate, the…