Data, Science & Tech

Efforts to treat individual disinformation outbreaks, rather than the underlying systemic design flaws, are doomed to fail. Here’s what we need.

An extensive array of research reports, online employee debates and drafts of presentations to senior management, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, offer an unparalleled look inside the social-media giant’s failings—and its unwillingness or inability to address them.

Many virtual private network services that were meant to protect your web browsing can no longer be trusted. Here are other ways.

Over the last few weeks, the WSJ has run a series of posts generally called "The Facebook Files," which have exposed a variety of internal documents from Facebook that are somewhat embarrassing. I do think some of the reporting is overblown...

A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people’s movements

The cost of improvement is becoming unsustainable

The internet is not free. Yet billions of people unknowingly trade their data while they browse in what they think is a free ecosystem.  Trackers are lurking everywhere. Web tracking — by the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and a host of other players — has become so pervasive that it’s almost impossible to avoid. A […]

You pay for Facebook with your privacy. And it keeps raising the price.

There’s no good evidence yet that personality profiling can influence elections.

Chris Gilliard grew up with racist policing in Detroit. He sees a new form of oppression in the tech we use every day.

“This is not normal. This is not healthy.”

Much of the U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) discussion revolves around futuristic dreams of both utopia and dystopia. From extreme to extreme, the promises range from solutions to global climate …

On Android at least

A team of security researchers has published details this week about a suite of 16 vulnerabilities collectively known as BrakTooth that impact the Bluetooth software stack that ships with System-on-Chip (SoC) boards from several popular vendors.

WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors.

The data isn’t reliable for some studies, researchers say.

Freelance illustrators are overworked and underpaid — few stay in the career beyond their 30s. Yet they craft the public images for many of the world’s most powerful companies. What gives?

Being original on Facebook doesn't pay, according to its own data

This week, marginalized streamers united to send Twitch a message: They're fed up.

Bikeshedding, rubber ducking, dog fooding, bus factors, yak shaving…what the heck are my colleagues even saying?

Maybe. But static graphics continue to struggle.

How can AI make our lives easier and better?

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"We have determined that unauthorized access to some T-Mobile data occurred."

VPNs promise privacy, but The Markup found their apps and websites full of trackers

It has long been recognised that innovation is unevenly distributed, but whether such technical progress may be the root cause of the rising income and wealth inequality in the US has been a matter