Facebook knows when you’re having your period. Google notes which porn sites you visit. Since government hasn’t acted, Apple is taking on the role of privacy advocate and declaring war on surveillance capitalism. What could possibly go wrong? It started with a question. A simple yes/no question that shook Silicon…

I watched the Congressional Hearing over misinformation from last week - 5 hours and 40 minutes, the whole damned thing. Here is what I’ve learned. These types of hearings (there were a few in the past) are not being held to gain knowledge or to regulate Big Tech. These hearings…

Facebook at SXSW There are quite a few things I have done in my life that I’m not too proud of, but what happened today might have been one of the worst. I made a complete fool of myself in front of hundreds of people who had come to South-by-Southwest to have a…

The Truth is out there, somewhere — but so are the Lies — The doubts first sneaked in with the internet. And now mistrust towards the media has hit rock bottom. …

Die Wahrheit ist irgendwo da draussen — die Lügen auch. — >>> English text version Mit dem Internet kamen die Zweifel. Selten war das Misstrauen gegenüber den Medien größer. Es ist, als würden sich die Menschen zum ersten Mal aus Platons Höhle bewegen und feststellen, dass die Schattenspiele auf dem Fernsehbildschirm lediglich Abbild einer größeren, weitaus komplexeren Welt sind. Platons Höhlengleichnis…

Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 really shot down by pro-Russian Militias? Who was behind the poison gas attacks in Syria? A startup from Israel worked out a methodology to help bringing the truth to light even from the murkiest of situations. …

The Web Re:volutionaries of Havana — Harold Cárdenas Lema from Havanna is 30 years old. He is in the process of writing his doctoral thesis. Together with a handful of likeminded friends he wants to reform Cuba. Here is a conversation about blogging, about Barack Obama and about the future of Cuba.