Florida is preparing for Hurricane Milton, the second significant storm in two weeks to impact the southern US. Hurricane Helene killed at least 220 people… Read More »What if our nation is not built for climate change?
It’s been a good winter for writing… or in some cases, a good winter for writing I did months ago to see the light of… Read More »New writing!
My new book, Mistrust: Why Losing Faith In Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them, comes out from W.W. Norton this November. In it, I… Read More »#iftheygunnedmedown Six Years Later, and Just as Vital – an interview with activist C.J. Lawrence
My friends at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia have just published a new paper from me on the topic of digital public infrastructures.… Read More »Digital Public Infrastructure… and a few words in defense of optimism
Roughly ten years ago, as phones became smartphones and Facebook and Twitter began their rise towards ubiquity, a fundamental social shift took place: the majority… Read More »Who Filters Your News? Why we built gobo.social
Remember Mastodon? In April 2017, there was a wave of excitement about Mastodon, a federated social network begun in October 2016 by Eugen Rochko, a… Read More »Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable