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December 3, 2021

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Newsletters

Welcome to Up for Debate

Conor Friedersdorf

December 1, 2021

Newsletters

Why Facebook and Twitter Won’t Ban Anti-Semitism

Yair Rosenberg

November 16, 2021

Technology

How Long Will Twitter Cling to Its Dumbest Feature?

Kaitlyn Tiffany

September 9, 2021

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Shadowland

Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago

Kaitlyn Tiffany

August 31, 2021

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Family

The Best Time-Management Advice Is Depressing But Liberating

Joe Pinsker

August 11, 2021

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Technology

Left-Wing Activists Are Bringing Back MAGA Twitter

Kaitlyn Tiffany

August 3, 2021

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Ideas

You Really Need to Quit Twitter

Caitlin Flanagan

July 5, 2021

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Technology

You Can’t Escape the Attention Economy

Kaitlyn Tiffany

June 14, 2021

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Technology

The Blue Check Mark’s Evil Cousin

Will Oremus

May 12, 2021

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Technology

Who Would Volunteer to Fact-Check Twitter?

Kaitlyn Tiffany

March 3, 2021

Ideas

Why Trump Suddenly Changed His Tune

Nick Baumann

January 8, 2021

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Ideas

The 1996 Law That Ruined the Internet

Steve Randy Waldman

January 3, 2021

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Ideas

The Year That Changed the Internet

Evelyn Douek

December 28, 2020

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Ideas

What I Have Seen Running the FacesOfCOVID Twitter Feed

Alex Goldstein

December 25, 2020

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Technology

Twitter’s Next Trump Problem

Kaitlyn Tiffany

November 12, 2020

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Technology

Twitter Goofed It

Kaitlyn Tiffany

October 15, 2020

Technology

The Creepy Trump Meme Taking Over Twitter

Kaitlyn Tiffany

October 7, 2020

Donald Trump's tweet announcing his positive test result for COVID-19, surrounded by occult symbols

Ideas

What I Learned in Twitter Purgatory

Kate Klonick

September 8, 2020

Technology

So Much for the Decentralized Internet

Ian Bogost

July 26, 2020

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Ideas

The Twitter Hacks Have to Stop

Bruce Schneier

July 18, 2020

Technology

Twitter’s Least-Bad Option for Dealing With Donald Trump

Jonathan L. Zittrain

June 26, 2020

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Ideas

Trump Tries to Sink Twitter, His Oldest Enabler

Andrew Ferguson

May 30, 2020

Ideas

The Utter Incoherence of Trump’s Battle With Twitter

Mary Anne Franks

May 30, 2020

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Ideas

Trump’s Looting Tweet Violates His Oath of Office

Conor Friedersdorf

May 29, 2020

Ideas

Trump Is a Problem That Twitter Cannot Fix

Evelyn Douek

May 27, 2020

Business

Something We Can All Agree On? Corporate Buzzwords Are the Worst.

Kate Cray

May 5, 2020

Ideas

Spare a Moment for Sorrow

John Dickerson

March 29, 2020

Letters

Twitter Is Not as Important as Journalists Make It Seem

February 12, 2020

Technology

The Misogynistic Joke That Became a Goth-Meme Fairy Tale

Kaitlyn Tiffany

February 3, 2020

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Technology

Why Twitter May Be Ruinous for the Left

Robinson Meyer

January 17, 2020

Global

The Twitter Electorate Isn’t the Real Electorate

Helen Lewis

January 13, 2020

Technology

Tweeting the Talmud

Erica Brown

January 3, 2020

Ideas

Doubt Anyone Who’s Confident That Facebook Should Ban Political Ads

Conor Friedersdorf

November 1, 2019

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Ideas

Only Cowards Don’t Get Ratioed

Yascha Mounk

October 21, 2019

Technology

I Tried to Limit My Screen Time

Ian Bogost

September 5, 2019

A Screen Time notification reading "Time Limit: You've reached your limit on Twitter."

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The Print Edition

The Tech Moguls Are Looking for a New Playground

Welcome to Up for Debate

Why Facebook and Twitter Won’t Ban Anti-Semitism

How Long Will Twitter Cling to Its Dumbest Feature?

Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago

The Best Time-Management Advice Is Depressing But Liberating

Left-Wing Activists Are Bringing Back MAGA Twitter

You Really Need to Quit Twitter

You Can’t Escape the Attention Economy

The Blue Check Mark’s Evil Cousin

Who Would Volunteer to Fact-Check Twitter?

Why Trump Suddenly Changed His Tune

The 1996 Law That Ruined the Internet

The Year That Changed the Internet

What I Have Seen Running the FacesOfCOVID Twitter Feed

Twitter’s Next Trump Problem

Twitter Goofed It

The Creepy Trump Meme Taking Over Twitter

What I Learned in Twitter Purgatory

So Much for the Decentralized Internet

The Twitter Hacks Have to Stop

Twitter’s Least-Bad Option for Dealing With Donald Trump

Trump Tries to Sink Twitter, His Oldest Enabler

The Utter Incoherence of Trump’s Battle With Twitter

Trump’s Looting Tweet Violates His Oath of Office

Trump Is a Problem That Twitter Cannot Fix

Something We Can All Agree On? Corporate Buzzwords Are the Worst.

Spare a Moment for Sorrow

Twitter Is Not as Important as Journalists Make It Seem

The Misogynistic Joke That Became a Goth-Meme Fairy Tale

Why Twitter May Be Ruinous for the Left

The Twitter Electorate Isn’t the Real Electorate

Tweeting the Talmud

Doubt Anyone Who’s Confident That Facebook Should Ban Political Ads

Only Cowards Don’t Get Ratioed

I Tried to Limit My Screen Time