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J.D. Vance's Rise Is a Victory for Silicon Valley Reactionaries
For Elon Musk, David Sacks, and Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist-turned-politician Vance is one of them.
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Who Owns X?
Here's why I'm trying to intervene in a civil suit against Elon Musk's X.
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May 2024

The Computer Revolution Never Happened
"How does one insult a machine?"
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April 2024

The Students Throwing Their Bodies on the Gears
The Gaza solidarity protesters embody the best tradition of militant American activism, but don't lose them in Vietnam-era nostalgia.
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Who was on Elon Musk’s Twitter transition team?
A subpoena list reveals who Musk relied on during his chaotic early days at Twitter.
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March 2024

Preservation Over Cause: Remembering Team Themis
The subversive smear operation was a blueprint for a digital-age, public-private COINTELPRO.
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Jeffrey Yass, GOP Megadonor and TikTok Investor, Gets His Turn Directing Republican Policy
A potential TikTok ban threatens his golden investment, but the billionaire financier has the ear of Trump and top Republicans.
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February 2024

November 2023

Guilty.
Sam Bankman-Fried did it. So did some others.
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October 2023

The Coming Trials of Sam Bankman-Fried
The accused fraudster, already up to his eyeballs in civil litigation, faces a lifetime in prison.
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June 2023

“I promise we’re not all like that”
Right-wing extremists have embraced South Florida’s crypto scene and Governor Ron DeSantis.
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May 2023

Don’t Make Me Destroy the World
The tech industry’s warnings about artificial intelligence have become a new sales pitch.
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