Ghost in the Machine
October 3, 2019
How Edward Snowden found his conscience
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.
Happy as Cory
August 22, 2019
An evening with the candidate of peace, love, and very little policy.
Unbreaking the News
After strip-mining the news industtry, Facebook wants publishers to trust them again.
Coins of No Nation
What’s missing from the white paper narratives about Libra, Facebook's new cryptocurrency, is the role of the state.
Silicon Valley’s Chinese Dream
China’s rise as a tech powerhouse has dovetailed with Silicon Valley’s growing distrust toward democracy itself.
No News Is Good News
The relationship between Facebook and news publishers is a bizarre charade, peopled by unreliable characters, dotted with contradictions, suffused with dependency and resentment. Over ten long years, Facebook kneecapped the newspaper industry by devouring its main revenue ...
The Invention of a Master Terrorist
August 29, 2018
The intelligence community has been vocal in celebrating Ibrahim al-Asiri's demise.
Who’s Afraid of Ocasio-Cortez?
July 30, 2018
Does Ocasio-Cortez represent a dangerous tilt leftward—or is she an inspiring augur of the Democratic Party’s future?