Independent reporting and analysis on AI companies, social platforms, and the policy and legal forces shaping them. Issues combine news reporting with a clear authorial perspective and disclosed conflicts of interest.

Renée DiResta writes about online disinformation, foreign influence operations, platform moderation and the politics around counter-disinformation research. Issues combine first-hand accounts, document-based rebuttals and her own experiments, such as building an AI notewriter for Community Notes.

Media scholar Amanda Lotz shares research-based analysis of how people actually use and make media in the twenty-first century, drawing on interviews, surveys and her published work. Readers get evidence-led challenges to conventional thinking about social media, streaming and the media industries.

Robert Mackey's archive collects his investigative and media reporting, including a Capitol riot exposé of a far-right influencer, a visual investigation into a 2022 Portland killing, and a fact-check of a Senate campaign's staged voter encounter. Readers get well-sourced accounts that expose misleading narratives and show how the reporting was done.