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The Rise of Digital Despots

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 - by Ronald J. Deibert

How Facebook and Twitter became the favourite tools of dictators around the world

Illustration of an internet forum open on a computer desktop. Part of the forum is pulled down in the style of a window blind. Behind it is a red room filled with silhouettes of men talking to one another.

September/October 2020 / Technology

The Making of an Incel

September 2, 2020September 2, 2020 - by Katherine Laidlaw

How misogyny in online forums turns into real-life violence

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This Is the Internet We Were Promised

April 29, 2020May 1, 2020 - by Angela Misri

The World Wide Web hasn’t felt this supportive since it was invented. Why did it take a pandemic?

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May 2020 / Technology

The Digital Afterlife

April 8, 2020April 11, 2020 - by Brian J. Barth

The ongoing legal battle to decide who owns our data after we die

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Business / Technology

The Billionaire Who Took Over the Internet

February 20, 2020June 12, 2020 - by Rob Larson

Tax exemptions, labour practices, and explosive growth: how Jeff Bezos made Amazon one of the world’s biggest companies

January/February 2020 / Technology

How YouTube Gives Us Love without the Messiness

January 2, 2020August 4, 2020 - by Michael Harris

Meet the online community providing millions with illusions of intimacy

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The Decade in Science and Technology

December 26, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From surveillance capitalism to Russian hacking, these are the science and tech conversations that helped define Canada

UK information commissioner Elizabeth Denham

May 2019 / Technology

Is Elizabeth Denham the Only Person Powerful Enough to Take on Facebook?

April 18, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Leah McLaren

How a privacy regulator from British Columbia forced Silicon Valley to change the way it uses your personal data

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May 2019 / Society / Technology

Are You Afraid of Google? BlackBerry Cofounder Jim Balsillie Says You Should Be

April 10, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Brian J. Barth

The entrepreneur who made billions putting BlackBerrys into pockets is now sounding the alarm about Big Tech’s creep toward surveillance capitalism

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The Deadly Price of the Automation Paradox

March 29, 2019September 26, 2019 - by Sharon Nadeem

As automation gets better, the skills of human operators gets worse. Are the Boeing Max 8 crashes an anomaly, or a new normal?