White Nationalism’s Most Powerful Accelerant

Dan O'Sullivan / Truthdig Mar 22, 2019 Big Tech is serving up hate on an industrial scale, radicalizing scores of young white men. Atrocities like Christchurch's are the result. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

While Warren Fights Facebook, O’Rourke Embraces It

Naomi LaChance / Truthdig Mar 13, 2019 The Former Texas Rep. has spent record levels on Facebook advertisements. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

E-Scooters Are Giving Cities Headaches—and Worse

Geri Spieler / Truthdig Feb 21, 2019 Tech-happy riders in San Francisco and Los Angeles love the new "green" machines, but for other city dwellers, they're hell on wheels. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

California Governor Wants Users to Profit From Online Data

DON THOMPSON / The Associated Press Feb 13, 2019 Gavin Newsom says consumers should get a piece of the billions tech companies make by monetizing the personal data they collect. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Embarrassing Secret Behind These Tech Giants’ Diversity Figures

Will Evans and Sinduja Rangarajan / Reveal Jan 13, 2019 Oracle, Pandora and Palantir said the numbers of women and people of color they employ are trade secrets. And the government bought it. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Netflix Removed Clip That Criticized Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Record

Naomi LaChance / Truthdig Jan 1, 2019 The episode has been viewed on YouTube more than 1 million times. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Bezos and Amazon Team Up With Defense, CIA, ICE

Staff / Truthdig Oct 28, 2018 Truthdig's editor in chief reveals how Amazon and the data mining firm Palantir help ICE hunt down immigrants, pick out the innocent as potential criminals and build the cloud for the government. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Snooping Through Silicon Valley

Louise Rubacky / Truthdig Oct 19, 2018 This exploration of the tech industry "strings lights around the absurdities of the gig economy and the belief in Everyman entrepreneurial capacity." Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Billionaires Are the Lethal Monkey on the Back of the American Public

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Sep 14, 2018 "Winners Take All" author Anand Giridharadas explains how the philanthropy of the 1 percent creates harmful illusions. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

Palestinian Teens Reach Finals of Silicon Valley Competition

MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH / The Associated Press Aug 5, 2018 Four high school friends head to California this week to pitch their mobile app about fire prevention to tech leaders. More than 19,000 teenage girls participated in the worldwide contest. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Apple Becomes First Trillion-Dollar Company

MICHAEL LIEDTKE / The Associated Press Aug 2, 2018 The milestone reached Thursday marks the latest triumph of a trend-setting company that two mavericks named Steve started in a Silicon Valley garage 42 years ago. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ From Company Code of Conduct

Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams May 21, 2018 The move has provoked a swift backlash across social media. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )