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  • The internet, COVID-19, and the open society

    The internet, COVID-19, and the open society

    BY BRET SWANSON One promise of the internet was to lower barriers. It would obliterate the distance limitations of geography and the gatekeeping functions of big media, big business, big academia, and…

  • Brazil’s political institutions clash over COVID response

    Brazil’s political institutions clash over COVID response

    BY RYAN C. BERG Brazil recently surpassed a grim statistic: 100,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus, which barrels on in the second worst outbreak in the world. Under increasing pressure at home — over…

  • Democrats don’t make a case for regulating Big Tech

    Democrats don’t make a case for regulating Big Tech

    BY MARK JAMISON In a recent blog post, I wrote that July’s House Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Big Tech CEOs from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google turned into two hearings: one for Democrats, who largely…

  • Most of Facebook censorship board has ties to leftwing billionaire George Soros

    Most of Facebook censorship board has ties to leftwing billionaire George Soros

    The recently appointed Facebook oversight board that will decide which posts get blocked from the world’s most popular social networking website is stacked with leftists, including a close friend of leftwing billionaire George Soros…

  • An old friend

    An old friend

    BY NORBERT RUG An old buddy stopped by my house the other day. He came over because I got in touch with him due to a series of challenges I had personally…

  • Facebook is trying to alter your mood

    Facebook is trying to alter your mood

    In a shocking revelations exposed in The Atlantic, Robinson Meyer writes that Facebook administered studies that aim to alter users’ mood by virtue of the content that is funneled into their newsfeed. From his article, Everything…

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