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Silicon Valley's efforts to keep bad actors from manipulating next year's election face threats that have evolved since 2016.

Back in 2015, I wrote a blog post called Dropbox: the First Dead Decacorn. At the time, it was the most widely shared take I’d ever written. I learned several things from writing this piece, and none of them had to do with Dropbox: I learned, for instance, that a great way to get people…

This essay first appeared in Re/code on March 4, 2015. Recently, both Apple CEO Tim Cook and FBI Director Jim Comey have said that the American people should weigh in on the questions raised by the Apple-FBI debate.

Thanks to ubiquitous smartphones and cellular data, the internet has developed into a kind of supernatural layer set atop everyday life, an easily accessible realm of fearsome power, feverish visions, and apocalyptic spiritual battle.

Jia Tolentino on the popular short-video app, which young people are using to churn through images and sounds at warp speed, repurposing reality into ironic, bite-size content.