The early internet was more than a playground—it was an accidental archive of humanity’s digital adolescence. Today, that archive is vanishing. Platforms delete old forums, purge “low-value” content, ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The western world’s internet doublespeak was on show at the United Nation’s (UN) ...

After a valuable de Kooning was discovered behind a bedroom door, a true crime fan wondered: Is that all the thieves stole? By Michaela Towfighi A fashion photographer, he built a do-it-yourself life ...

The UN has put its weight behind the multilateral Global Digital Compact as a new process to govern the internet. However, the world would be far better off supporting the long-running, ...

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I don’t buy any of the argument in Katy Waldman’s Slate article about language on the internet. I’m not looking for the most “shocking and magnificent change the web has worked in language” because I ...

I am not a Luddite. I use the internet at least as much as the average person and am amazed by its speed and efficiency. A product appearing on my doorstep a day after making a few clicks is a miracle ...

Katowice, Poland, 6 December– An additional 782 million people came online in just two years since 2019 – more than twice the population of the United States – but at the same time, unequal access, ...

For the first time in years, the torrent of veiled threats and vile slurs against Connecticut judges pouring from an internet blog called The Family Court Circus has stopped — at least temporarily.

Considering the Pavlovian ping of dopamine felt with every heart emoji, many articles hyper-focus on screen addiction, or how social media impacts self-esteem, or the very real damage caused by ...