“X” Axed Headlines. That Sucks For Accessibility.
ANP/Zuma; Maxppp/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Yet again, X, the social media firm formerly known as Twitter, has gone through an abrupt design change. As of Wednesday, users can no longer see headlines to links shared on the platform. While it’s a blow to…
For Disabled Workers, Discrimination Is Common—If You Even Get to Apply
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After becoming blind in his late 20s, designer and artist Marco Salsiccia had to learn to navigate the world through assistive technology—like a screen reader, software that speaks digital text and image descriptions aloud. Leveraging that…
A Peter Thiel-Linked Startup Is Courting New York Scenesters and Plotting a Libertarian Paradise
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this summer, I showed up uninvited at a midtown Manhattan music venue, where a startup named the Praxis Society was holding an event as part of a weeklong series to promote its flagship product: a free-market Mediterranean city-state…
How Dating Apps Became a Paradise for Predators
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Matthew Herrick’s dating profiles depicted a muscular man with olive-green eyes and red-hot bedroom interests. The aspiring actor liked orgies and bondage. He was HIV-positive but preferred unprotected sex. He had a “rape fantasy,” and if he seemed resistant…
The Latest Congressional Hearing on UFOs Was Full of Wild Claims
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, former intelligence official David Grusch, and retired Navy Commander David Fravor, testify before a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on UFOs.Nathan Howard/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, a House Oversight subcommittee held a highly anticipated hearing on “unidentified…
Far-Right Influencers Don’t Know What to Do About Threads
Mother Jones illustration; Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The rapid ascent of Threads has forced a key question facing any potentially successful social platform: “What’s the far-right going to do with this one?” And with 100 million users joining in just…