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Internet

Courts Are Quietly Taking Over the Internet

The next generation of online platforms is being shaped less by engineers and entrepreneurs and more by regulators and courts—and they’re very bad at it.

Dirk Auer | 5.26.2025 8:00 AM

The Facebook HQ sign crumbles away. | Illustration: Lex Villena; Boarding1now

Technology

Reports of Facebook's Immortality Are Greatly Exaggerated

Critics have said for years that Facebook is a monopoly that can only be killed by federal regulation. Meanwhile, the platform bleeds users, its stock price is plummeting, and it just announced its first-ever round of layoffs.

Joe Lancaster | 11.10.2022 1:30 PM

topicsscience | Photo: Somnium Space

Science

Immortality in the Metaverse

The metaverse platform Somnium Space plans to let its users' personas live on.

Ronald Bailey | 8.4.2022 6:00 AM

Facebook screen on laptop in front of phone with Meta apps on it | Onur Dogman/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom

Reason Roundup

Meta Can't Buy V.R. Fitness Company, Must Make Its Own Competing App, Says FTC

Plus: A rebranded "Build Back Better," the two-party system creates "a disconnect between elites and non-elites," and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.28.2022 9:54 AM

culture2 | Illustration: Joanna Andreasson; Source Image: Aleksandr Podoinitcyn/Alamy

Science & Technology

The Metaverse Is Already Here

How is virtual reality remaking our world?

Peter Suderman | 6.25.2022 6:00 AM

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