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Erik Carter How Facebook Fails 90 Percent of Its Users
Internal documents show the company routinely placing public-relations, profit, and regulatory concerns over user welfare. And if you think it’s bad here, look beyond the U.S.
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GraphicaArtis / Getty People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one.
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Ali Kahfi / Getty; Corbis / Getty; The … The Metaverse Is Bad
It is not a world in a headset but a fantasy of power.
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Getty; Paul Spella / The Atlantic What Happened When Facebook Became Boomerbook
Leaked documents reveal that a company that was once rebellious and optimistic is now bloated, regretful, and uncool.
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The Atlantic A Day Without Facebook
The social giant’s temporary disappearance means absolutely nothing.
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Danielle Del Plato The Largest Autocracy on Earth
Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.
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Harold M. Lambert / Getty ; The Atlantic Facebook Cares About Privacy—But Only If You’re an Advertiser
The social giant kicked off researchers studying how political ads can encourage targeted voter suppression, leaving citizens with little insight into how they’re manipulated on the platform.
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Mandel Ngan / Brendan Smialoski / AFP / … Facebook Won’t Talk About the Insurrection
And Trump is allowed back on the platform in 2023.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Michael Zwahlen … Somebody Has to Do It
Facebook’s made-up court is filling an enormous legal void.
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Erlon Silva / Getty / The Atlantic The Problem Is Facebook
Facebook’s “Supreme Court” might have upheld Donald Trump’s suspension, but that doesn’t make it a real court.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic What Facebook Did for Chauvin’s Trial Should Happen All the Time
If the social-media giant can discourage hate speech and incitements to violence on a special occasion, it can do so all the time.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Government Didn’t Foresee How Facebook Would Behave
Today’s antitrust regulators should rein in the tech giants.
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The Atlantic The Year That Changed the Internet
In 2020, the need to contain misinformation about COVID-19 pushed Facebook and Twitter into a role they never wanted—arbiters of the truth.
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The Atlantic Daily: 3 Reasons Facebook Is Dangerous
The company is operating at megascale, one writer argues.
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Adam Maida Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Even Facebook Is Pining for the Internet It Destroyed
The tech giant’s new oddball social-media app is a testament to its power.
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How Facebook Works for Trump
Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.
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The Atlantic Facebook’s New Privacy Tool Is a Data Landfill
Assume that every website you visit tattles on you to the social-media behemoth.
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Glenn Chapman / AFP / Getty Facebook’s Id Is Showing
An executive’s leaked memo suggests that the company wants to return to the pre-Trump world.
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frantic00 / shutterstock/ Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Sneaky Genius of Facebook's New Preventive Health Tool
The feature looks likely to fill gaps in care—and to further draw users into Facebook’s ecosystem.
