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Is breaking up big tech the solution to online hate or election meddling?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photo by Sean P. Anderson via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.

Social media regulation and its discontents

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

The Kingsbury was one of the Sri Lankan hotels and churches targeted by suicide bombers on April 21. Credit: AKS.9955 via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped.

Sri Lanka blocked Facebook after the Easter bombings, but was social media really a problem?

By Matt Field | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies

Flowers outside a mosque in New Zealand to commemorate the victims of an attack on two mosques that killed 50 people. Credit: Mike Dickison via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 4.0. (Edited)

Should tech executives do hard time for violent content posted to their platforms?

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Credit: World Economic Forum / swiss-image.ch / Valeriano DiDomenico CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

A new voice chimes in on regulating facial recognition and big-tech

By Matt Field | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Doug Jones speaks at a campaign event. Credit: Digital Campaign Manager for Doug Jones for Senate. CC BY-SA 4.0

A smallish effort to mimic Russian disinformation tactics comes to light in Alabama

By Matt Field | Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

Russian President Vladimir Putin meeting with US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Hamburg on July 7, 2017. Credit: Kremlin Presidential Executive Office

A “media mirage”: Russia deployed sophisticated marketing tactics to help Trump win

By Matt Field | Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, What We’re Reading

“Netwar”: The unwelcome militarization of the Internet has arrived

By Jonathan Zittrain | Special Topics, Technology and Security