Joseph Bernstein

Joe Bernstein on what we know — and don’t know — about disinformation.

A year ago, Matt Swider was a journeyman consumer tech reporter. Now he’s a celebrity.

Better camera, faster chip. Steve Jobs’ fairly consequential idea continues to improve at the expected rate. Plus, new iPads!

But how would you explain this miracle of technological sophistication to the simple people of the past?

The Real Facebook Oversight Board wants content moderation, and it wants it now. What happens when journalists are targeted?

“She was happy and competitive and in good spirits. Not symptomatic. And a few days later, she’s dead.”

“It’s not a heroic feeling.” BuzzFeed News talks to a physician at the beleaguered Elmhurst Hospital Center.

Privacy advocates are alarmed over the search giant’s new COVID-19 screening portal.

We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged.

“Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform. The site’s executives only have themselves to blame.

Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of a billionaire Google executive, is founding a nonprofit that will cover “the surprising and complex effects of technology outside the US and Europe,” with plans to launch by the end of the year.

The intentions behind the Nazi salute photograph seen around the world were hardly as sinister as they first appeared. But in Trump and Twitter’s America, as one small Midwestern town discovered, image is everything.

Now with 50 million users, Whitney Wolfe’s Bumble apps are surfing a Serena Williams Super Bowl ad into a new wave of hype.

Mir Islam and Troy Woody Jr., changed their story yet again about the circumstances surrounding the death of Tomi Masters.

Definers’ research for Facebook on billionaire George Soros has never been published before. You can read one of those documents here.

And it isn’t remotely close.

Two angry men submerged themselves in the far-right internet. One committed murder. The other walked away. Why?

The company had previously removed Farrakhan’s special verified status after a previous anti-Semitic tweet.

Once a piece of anodyne personal advice, the phrase has become a catchall insult that expresses some of our darkest fears about the internet attention economy and the people who thrive there.

Lawyer Mark Randazza is a free speech crusader for some of the internet’s vilest characters, who have run afoul of social networks. Is he fighting for a time-tested principle, or an American dogma that has run its course?