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Photographer: Michelle Groskopf
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.
Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.
Author: Karen Hao
Photographer: Christie Hemm Klok
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scarySynthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real.
Author: Melissa
Heikkilä
Photographer: David Vintiner
Photographer: Cody O’LoughlinPhotographer: Peter Garritano (above) and Stefan Chow (right)
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A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.
Author: Eileen Guo
Artist: Matthieu Bourel
Inside the decades-long fight over Yahoo’s misdeeds in ChinaThe Yahoo Human Rights Fund was intended to support imprisoned Chinese dissidents. Instead, a lawsuit alleges that only a small fraction of the money went to help former prisoners.
Author: Eileen Guo
Artist: Max-o-matic
When my dad was sick, I started Googling grief. Then I couldn’t escape it.I’ve spent months trying to untrain the algorithms that were relentlessly serving me content on loss.
Author: Tate Ryan-Moseley
Artist: Eva Redamonti
VR headsets can be hacked with an Inception-style attackResearchers managed to crack Meta’s Quest VR system, allowing them to steal sensitive information, and manipulate social interactions.
Author:
Melissa Heikkilä
Artist: Dogboy
Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order
An MIT Technology Review series, supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center, investigating how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before.
Author: Karen Hao
Artist: Edel Rodriguez
The feud between a weed influencer and scientist over puking stonersA scientist went looking for genes that cause cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. But a public spat with a cannabis influencer who suffers from the disease may have derailed his research.
Author: Amanda Chicago Lewis
Artist: Kelsey Dake