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David Ben Moshe, born David Bonett, first applied for citizenship in 2018 and spent years fighting against the unyielding world of Israeli bureaucracy

Third-Party Twitter Apps Stop Working in What Appears to Be a Widespread Outage by Rob Pegoraro

The company's silence leaves users and developers guessing: glitch or deliberate cutoff?

In “Social Quitting,” my latest Locus Magazine column, I advance a theory to explain the precipitous vibe shift in how many of us view the once-dominant social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter…

Iszac Henig told his own story in the New York Times. A conservative columnist wants to erase his story and replace it with her own. by Evan Urquhart stock photo of a male swimmer The fine art of cherry picking is one all propagandists carefully hone, and transphobes are among the most dedicated pra...

Transcripts reveal where the bottlenecks were.

The Biden administration did something wrong and is taking its medicine. Plus I love wrestling—for now.

Deborah Birx’s attempt to whitewash her actions shows why we need a full accounting of what the Trump administration did.

Elon Musk, social media content moderation, and a culture of free speech.

Parlement Technologies, the parent company of “censorship-free” social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff and most of its chief executives over the last few weeks. The sudden purge of staff has thrown the future of Parler, one of the first conservative alternatives to mainstream platforms, into question.

a bisseleh messianic history

Trump and his allies are eager to whatabout the news that classified documents were found in a Biden office. But the situations are very different.

About that New York Times story on Hamline University.

Plus: MAGA exports Insurrection

There are a lot of people out there who equate writing good, secure, privacy-enhancing software, with promotion of “self-evidently problematic” anti-statist libertarian agendas which they rail against — presumably because they’re worried that society (i.e. they) will lose something from re...

There’s more to Mastodon than just replacing Twitter. There’s an old story about someone in the dark feeling the trunk of an elephant and believing it’s a snake because they can’t see the whole animal. It’s happening again, as people spooked from the Twitter crash try to feel their way aro...

The anniversary of the day that shaped the GOP

Block fragmentation in LayoutNG is now complete. Learn how it works and why it is important in this article.

If You Don’t Want EU Style Censorship To Take Over The Internet, Support Section 230 by Mike Masnick

Last summer, I mocked the EU a bit for setting up a new office in Silicon Valley, and sending an official here to “liaise with Silicon Valley companies affected by EU tech regulation,” noting how it felt weird to have EU internet police setting up shop in Silicon Valley. Given that, I was a bit […]

Numerous organizations have rallied in support of professor Erika Lopez Prater, calling for the university to protect academic freedom.