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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.

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Knocking Off YouTube’s Populist Halo

June 18, 2014
In recent years, the large tech companies—Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook—have played a great trick on consumers. By disrupting the old gatekeepers out of existence, they claim, they have leveled the cultural playing field, leaving no barriers between people and the ...

Citizen Koch and the Oligarchic Slide

June 2, 2014
It takes about $99,000 to buy a Democratic congressman. That’s one of the grim factoids we learn in Citizen Koch, the new documentary from directors Tia Lessin and Carl Deal. That particular insight comes from James Bopp, who would know pay from payola; the conservative boffin ...