Caroline Orr Bueno reports on how the billionaire X owner has turned Twitter into a tool for foreign interference which monetises and weaponises a global network of disinformation
Tech, Data and Algorithms
The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles
Documents show Jeffrey Epstein was not cast out after his child sex-crime conviction but remained embedded in a confidential inner circle of Silicon Valley founders with strategic influence on the modern world, including Musk, Bezos, Brin, Page, Gates and Zuckerberg
EXCLUSIVE: Reform is accused of falsifying the evidence it provided to the Information Commissioner's Office, following allegations that it breached data rules
A new study raises stark questions about the link between extreme rhetoric in the media and politics and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues Professor Bobby Duffy
Damning report finds social media giants are failing in legal duties to remove threats
Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
The same digital technologies that helped the Israeli military target Gazans are now being embedded in its peacetime infrastructure, with Trump-supporting billionaires poised to benefit
Leaked records obtained by Byline Times reveal how Kremlin-linked investors used Epstein's network to channel oligarch money into Silicon Valley
Otto English explains why, after 15 years, he has left the social media platform now disseminating disinformation worldwide under the control of Elon Musk