Joseph Bernstein
What To Expect When You're Expecting A Baby At The Epicenter Of A Plague
Before the outbreak, I was already calculating the odds my new child would face. Now it's all I can think about.
Joseph Bernstein
The Coronavirus Is Forcing Religious Communities Apart. Can Technology Hold Them Together?
As religious leaders turn to virtual tools to hold their congregations together, they face a common challenge: how to build community without physical connection.
Joseph Bernstein
A Colorado Bridge Tournament Has Become A Coronavirus Nightmare With Four Dead And Dozens Hospitalized
“She was happy and competitive and in good spirits. Not symptomatic. And a few days later, she’s dead.”
Joseph Bernstein
A Chilling Account From A Doctor At The Center Of The Coronavirus Crisis
“It’s not a heroic feeling.” BuzzFeed News talks to a physician at the beleaguered Elmhurst Hospital Center.
Joseph Bernstein
Want To Get Screened For Coronavirus By Verily? You’ll Need A Google Account For That.
Privacy advocates are alarmed over the search giant’s new COVID-19 screening portal.
Joseph Bernstein
A Former Cambridge Analytica Employee Was Thrown Out Of Facebook’s New York Office
“My host said to me, ‘I don’t know what you’ve done in your private life, but you’re not allowed into this building.’”
Joseph Bernstein
Alienated, Alone And Angry: What The Digital Revolution Really Did To Us
We were promised community, civics, and convenience. Instead, we found ourselves dislocated, distrustful, and disengaged.
Joseph Bernstein
Police Are Looking For A Man Who Allegedly Trashed A California Synagogue
Beverly Hills police are investigating the actions as a hate crime.
Joseph Bernstein
The American Internet Sucks. The Alternative Is China.
In a fragmenting world, will governments choose ruthless digital order over chaotic digital freedom?
Joseph Bernstein
Rupert Murdoch Is Fighting To Keep His Fraying Empire Behind Trump And Boris Johnson
The possibility of Murdoch changing direction remains a liberal fantasy, but he is navigating deep political divides inside his own empire.
Joseph Bernstein
Attorney General Bill Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End Encryption Across Facebook's Apps
"We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety."
Ryan Mac
Instagram's Opioid Recovery Hashtags Are Full Of Drug Dealers
“Oxys, Roxy, Xans, Addy, codeine, perc...Available 24.7 for delivery.”
Joseph Bernstein
All Those Texts You Receive From Political Campaigns Actually Work
According to new research, people who get texted are one percent more likely to vote.
Joseph Bernstein
YouTube Terminated The Account Of A 14-Year-Old Star Over Her Anti-Gay Video
After her account was removed, Soph tweeted an image of herself with what appeared to be a gun, with the caption, “youtube headquarters here I come.”
Joseph Bernstein
Andy Ngo Has The Newest New Media Career. It's Made Him A Victim And A Star.
“A single man standing there with a camera who never got hit and never hit back before in his life.”
Joseph Bernstein
The Culture War Has Finally Come For Wikipedia
The once-derided open-source encyclopedia is the closest thing the internet has to an oasis of truth. Now a single-user ban has exposed the deep rifts between Wikipedia's libertarian origins and its egalitarian aspirations, and threatened that stability.
Joseph Bernstein
A Former Republican Operative With Ties To White Nationalists Has Been Publishing Opinion Pieces In The Wall Street Journal
Marcus Epstein, a former associate of Richard Spencer and a former contributor to white nationalist site VDare, has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Hill, and Forbes under a thinly veiled pen name.
Ryan Mac
YouTube’s Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl
"Soph" has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform. The site's executives only have themselves to blame.
Joseph Bernstein
Supreme Court Says Consumers Can Sue Apple For Allegedly Monopolizing The App Store
“Apple’s line-drawing does not make a lot of sense, other than as a way to gerrymander Apple out of this and similar lawsuits,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote.
Joseph Bernstein
Sophie Schmidt Will Launch A New Tech Publication With An International Focus
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.
Joseph Bernstein
