Mr. Grift Goes to Washington
January 20, 2025
The second Donald Trump administration is a rough bunch.
Jacob Silverman
Jacob Silverman is an independent journalist in New York. He is the author of Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection and coauthor of Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud. His next book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2025. He is a contributing editor for The Baffler and for The New Republic. He writes for many outlets, including at his website, www.jacobsilverman.com.
All That Twitters
September 26, 2024
A rough taxonomy of X shareholders.
Blowing Up the Crypto Cartel
The collapse of FTX broke the crypto omerta.
Musk of the Spheres
The high-stakes drama of Musk’s Twitter buy.
All Too Human
Uber kisses its automation dreams goodbye.
A Most Violent Platform
Facebook’s extremism problem, at home and abroad.
Nobody’s Ally
When the makers of policing tech say “Black Lives Matter.”
All Right Already
By now, we know where Facebook’s allegiances lie