Tech

New and proposed laws and regulatory challenges threaten the business model of apps like Uber and Handy.

Law enforcement agencies said claims on social media that antifascist activists had set fires on the West Coast were unfounded.

Students are using apps to shame their schools into better coronavirus plans.

China demanded that Twitter investigate, suggesting that Liu Xiaoming’s account had been compromised. But the account has a history of unusual likes.

Irish regulators have started an inquiry into Facebook’s movement of data on European users to the United States.

Despite what Mark Zuckerberg says, Facebook shapes our world.

This documentary from Jeff Orlowski explores how addiction and privacy breaches are features, not bugs, of social media platforms.

Modernizing government technology can be helpful during a crisis. To a point.

Schools are closed in Indonesia because of the pandemic, but for the rural poor who lack internet access and smartphones, online education is particularly difficult.

Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don’t have children.