Scott Lucas
The Pandemic Has Left Us With A Lingering Trauma About Money
Expanded inequality, an inexplicable stock market, and a whole bunch of weird habits — this is how the pandemic will change our financial lives forever.
Scott Lucas
Stop Freaking Out: You Probably Already Have Some Type Of Vaccine Passport
Schools, international travel, and military service — people in the US already have to prove they are vaccinated against many diseases.
Scott Lucas
Twitter Has Kicked Donald Trump Off For Good
For years, Trump has used the social media site to spread hate and lies. Until today.
Scott Lucas
Twitter Threatened To Permanently Suspend Donald Trump
The president has earned a timeout, but hasn’t been banned — yet.
Scott Lucas
13 Times Jon Ossoff Was Such A Millennial On Twitter
The Georgia senator-elect is a “n00b 4 lyfe.”
Scott Lucas
The Number Of COVID-19 Deaths Is Hard To Comprehend. But We Have To Try.
The coronavirus has killed more than 300,000 in the United States and 1.8 million around the world, with more dying every day. We can't hold them all in our heads at once, but this is what we owe their memories.
Scott Lucas
This Is What People Promised They Would Do If Biden Won
Time to make good on those promises.
Scott Lucas
The World Feels Hopeless. I Talked To Christian Scholars About What To Do.
“We don’t have any special wisdom. We don’t have special answers.”
Scott Lucas
Thousands Of Women Have No Idea A Telegram Network Is Sharing Fake Nude Images Of Them
A new AI bot primarily spreading across Russia and Eastern Europe has created fake nude images of more than 680,000 women.
Jane Lytvynenko
Facebook Limited The Reach Of An Unconfirmed Story About Joe Biden’s Son Hunter. Twitter Blocked It.
"In many countries, including in the US, if we have signals that a piece of content is false, we temporarily reduce its distribution pending review by a third-party fact-checker."
Scott Lucas
The Post Office Has Always Been Political
Donald Trump's opposition is nothing new. From the founding, the mail has knitted the country together.
Scott Lucas
India Just Banned TikTok
The government ordered 59 Chinese-owned apps to be blocked following border clashes with China that left 20 Indian soldiers dead.
Scott Lucas
Quiz: Are You Going To Be In My Quarantine Circle?
The sun is out and the lockdowns are beginning to lift. But who is really worth the risk?
Scott Lucas
The First Book About The Coronavirus Is Here, And It's Terrible
The famous philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s Pandemic! COVID-19 Shakes the World ranges from riffs on Julian Assange to a startlingly bad take on what happened in Wuhan. He probably should have sat this one out.
Scott Lucas
People Are Challenging The Coronavirus To Fight On Twitter
The long-dormant @coronavirus account has been catching a lot of grief this week.
Scott Lucas
Five Laid-Off Baristas At Slack’s Coronavirus-Closed Offices Will Receive Extra Pay
A GoFundMe for the laid-off workers has raised more than $15,000, in addition to concessions from their employer.
Scott Lucas
Apple Said It Is Helping In The Pensacola Shooting Investigation, But It Won't Unlock The Shooter's iPhones
"We reject the characterization that Apple has not provided substantive assistance in the Pensacola investigation," the company said in a statement.
Scott Lucas
San Francisco Spent A Decade Being Rich, Important, And Hating Itself.
During an unprecedented tech boom, the Bay Area asked itself who its real enemies were — and nobody liked the answers.
Scott Lucas
21 Things BuzzFeed News Tried And Loved In 2019
Some of these things may change your life. Or not.
Scott Lucas
Facebook’s "I Voted" Button Could Be Trump’s Secret Turnout Weapon In 2020
As leaked audio shows Mark Zuckerberg worrying about Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the site’s “I Voted” button could help tip the election for the president or another candidate.
Scott Lucas
