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Confused by the buzzy social platform? Here’s everything you need to know.

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the arms race for human attention, the ethics of persuasion, the consequences of having an ad-based economy, the dynamics of regret, and other topics.

Experts and r/ChangeMyView subreddit moderators offer 10 tips to debunk conspiracy theories convincingly—and kindly.

Keep your personal information personal

«Our goal in this article is to help you condense your attack surface as much as possible.»

You deserve privacy. Here's how to check your phone, laptop, and online accounts to make sure no one's looking over your shoulder.

Amazon is now making up to £8,800 a second, while concerns persist about its tax affairs, treatment of staff and effect on small retailers. Here’s how to buy everything from technology to beauty to…

A step-by-step guide to finding and removing your personal information from the internet.

Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop are going global with big ambitions.

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Preparing yourself for the worst is easier than you might think — and it’s never been more important.

Five tips to help you navigate the holiday craze with cunning and skill.

SEO experts got very rich filling the web full of garbage. But are they to blame or is Google?

«Soon, he said, Google results would be even worse, dominated entirely by AI-generated crap designed to please the algorithms, produced and published at volumes far beyond anything humans could create, far beyond anything we’d ever seen before.»

The next time you catch yourself doomscrolling, take it as an invitation to own your own horror.

«Compulsion is key to doomscrolling, which means that, whatever else is going on, we enjoy it.»

Many of us feel the anxiety of living in a time of ‘polycrisis’, but taking a long view will help you cope

«polycrisis, a cluster of related global risks and their effects, and of a permacrisis, the Collins Dictionary’s 2022 word of the year, defined as “an extended period of instability and insecurity”.»

TikTok isn’t the way I want the internet to work, but it’s where the internet is going.

Please choose a password

Social media is our public diary — and it’s only getting more intimate.

Their big promise has fizzled out.

«I have so much information at hand that I feel paralyzed.»

The last 25 years of Google’s history can be boiled down to a battle against the Google bomb. Is the search engine finally losing to its hijackers?

He swiped right, they swiped his car, and then, he tried to get even.

Can’t face another minute thinking about war, inflation or the climate catastrophe? Give your brain a break in a strange, surprising or entrancing corner of the internet. We’ve got riddles, we’ve got…

Glimpses of humanity in an unlikely corner of the internet.