Social media and ‘addiction’: the Los Angeles ruling raises more questions than it answers

To attribute responsibility for individual behaviour tout-court to product design can profoundly alter the boundary between technological neutrality and active intervention in users’ decision-making processes, with effects that may extend far beyond the individual court case by Andrea Monti Continue reading “Social media and ‘addiction’: the Los Angeles ruling raises more questions than it answers”

The agreement between Trump and Xi on TikTok: China remains in the American joint venture

The US president’s executive order ends the battle over the platform’s future. But between exemptions, Chinese quotas and political controls, doubts remain about the real scope of the decision by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by La Repubblica – Italian Tech Continue reading “The agreement between Trump and Xi on TikTok: China remains in the American joint venture”