Just ignore the comments, they say. That’s easier said than done in an era when artists live on a knife-edge due to the pressures of social media, where success breeds both adoration and aggression. The virtual applause can be deafening, but so can the vitriol—and the isolation. These days, it seems genuine fans are outnumbered … Read more
Move over, TikTok. Ofcom, the U.K. regulator enforcing the now official Online Safety Act, is gearing up to size up an even bigger target: search engines like Google and Bing and the role that they play in presenting self-injury, suicide and other harmful content at the click of a button, particularly to underage users. A … Read more
A trade union that won a landmark case against Uber in the UK’s Supreme Court had a “culture of abuse and toxicity,” with an internal power struggle threatening to paralyze its operations, according to a damning independent report obtained by WIRED. The report into the App Drivers and Couriers Union, or ADCU, which was commissioned … Read more