Author: Parmy Olson

Litigation was instrumental in damaging Big Tobacco’s grip on the market in the 1990s. A similar approach is probably needed to stigmatise social media.

Europe could quickly seize an opportunity to capitalise on US aggression by moving quickly to bolster its tech sector.

Tech billionaires are so deep in their own reality distortion fields that their perception of the world can get dangerously warped.

AI agents’ effect on our autonomy will depend as much on the tech itself as how we choose to engage with it.

The CEO of Bluesky Social wants to “change the model of social media”, giving consumers more control.

Professional workers could ultimately become managers of AI’s output, rather than the originators of new ideas and content.

Meta Platforms may have got caught in a downward spiral over the past year, but Mark Zuckerberg seems to be putting it back onto a more fruitful direction, at least for now.

The change, long resisted by Apple but now being forced on it, could be a boon not only for iPhone users but for the company, too.

Facebook’s announcement that user numbers had dropped for the first time laid bare a long-neglected vulnerability: it’s a one-trick pony.

It seems to be a rite of passage that as technology billionaires get older, they spend more time chasing dreams they might have fantasised about as kids.