June 2020 Culture Articles
- Nintendo wants you to know it's sorry about Joy-Con drift
- 'Fix-it fiction' gives queer women the happy endings they deserve
- Facebook finally cracks down on the Boogaloo network
- Huawei and ZTE declared national security threats by FCC
- Lesbian TikTok is unexpected joy at exactly the right time
- YouTube suspends monetization for Shane Dawson following backlash
- Here's every company that's pulled its advertising from Facebook
- Uber wants your help sanitizing its drivers' vehicles
- Electric bike ad banned in France for 'discrediting the auto sector'
- Minecraft is now home to a virtual library of censored journalism
- Twitch bans Trump, Reddit bans ‘r/The_Donald’ in hate speech crackdown
- NASA wants your help designing a better space toilet
- The Instagrammers documenting celebrity fits / Changing racist coding terms
- Revisiting 'Clean Room,' a gut-wrenching comic about the horrors inside us all
- The week in technology, in photos
- Grindr said it wouldn't allow filtering by ethnicity but still does
- Amateur erotica fest Hump! has gone online, but no screenshots, please
- Trump wants to help Cisco buy Nokia or Ericsson to rival Huawei at 5G
- Coca-Cola is now the biggest brand to pull its Facebook ads
- TikTok users are trolling Trump's online merch store hard
- Facebook activates damage control after ad boycott bleeds stock
- This AI robot just got a lead acting role in a million-dollar sci-fi flick
- Verizon and Unilever join the advertising boycott against Facebook
- Shocking no one, trolls ruined TikTok's Zoom Pride event
- Apple unveils iOS 14 / Tim Cook’s fashion sense
- Rich people, please stop killing the planet
- A preventable security lapse exposed sensitive recordings of domestic abuse victims
- Tinder users can now list up to 3 sexual orientations
- 'Boogaloo' acolytes finally get the boot from Discord for incendiary content
- The shady world behind Ben Shapiro's popularity on Facebook
- AI experts are sounding the alarm about crime-prediction algorithms
- WeWork's Black business grant program seems like an evil scam
- SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son is bowing out of Alibaba's board
- Boston bans use of facial recognition, approves $3.6B police budget
- Amazon's launched its own Counterfeit Crimes Unit to combat fake goods
- Trump's reelection campaign is hunting for new social media havens
- Facebook pats itself on the back for 'fighting' hate speech
- The Hackintosh is dead
- Twitter banned a pro-Trump meme creator for multiple copyright violations
- Google expands its fact-checking labels to Images
- Sonos lays off a big portion of its global staff, closes flagship NYC store
- Yes, iOS 14 will let you use picture-in-picture for PornHub
- The truth about Supreme and tear gas / The perfect protest app
- Bolton's Trump exposé was widely pirated before it was even published
- An activist group has unleashed heaps of highly sensitive police data
- Online harassment based on race, sexuality, and religion is worsening
- Twitter is allowing the fringe right to spread George Floyd conspiracies
- Twitch has a huge sexual abuse problem. It's vowing to fix it.
- Big tech will be hit hardest by Trump's latest visa suspension
- Square is using customers' money to protect itself while they flounder
- Google employees call for an end to the company's police contracts
- Trump was humiliated by the TikTok teens and K-Pop fans
- The Vegas PD plans to charge nearly $300 an hour for body cam footage
- Apple Watch will soon make sure you wash your hands correctly
- Apple announces new Siri-enabled Translate app for iOS 14
- All of Fortnite's cop cars have disappeared from the game
- Spotify is testing in-app podcast ads that link you directly to the deals
- The PS5 is ugly / How to get "Japan-only" streetwear
- Elon Musk's totally normal and not insane quotes: Twitter edition
- 'Wild Palms' predicted the future in 1993, but no one was watching
- High-tech surveillance is emboldening police to abuse their power even more
- The North Face won't buy ads on Facebook until further notice
- Twitter calls out Trump fake news tweet as 'manipulated media'
- AMC Theaters will reopen, be bursting with communicable diseases
- NYC Council greenlights law requiring NYPD be transparent about surveillance tech
- YouTube hit with discrimination lawsuit by Black creators over shady profiling tactics
- Prominent civil rights groups are calling for a Facebook ad boycott
- Facebook takes down Trump ads featuring well-known Nazi symbol
- Google vows to increase diversity at the top to 30 percent by 2025
- The broken phones of New York City
- Report: Instagram is becoming the go-to news source for youngsters
- Emails reveal Microsoft tried selling the DEA facial recognition tech
- Apple's head of diversity and inclusion is leaving at the worst time
- Facebook and Instagram will now let you pretend political ads don't exist
- DOJ proposal seeks to strip tech companies of federal protections
- Nike's Space Hippie sneakers / Best Black-owned brands
- Facebook, Google, Amazon are reportedly willing to testify before Congress in antitrust hearing
- Gyms are reopening and people are working out in weird isolation pods
- Google can't get its story straight after banning ZeroHedge and The Federalist from ads
- A Russian disinformation campaign went unnoticed on Facebook and Reddit for years
- TikTok users are reserving tickets for a Trump rally they won't attend
- Apple's EU antitrust investigation woes are ramping up
- A fake Black Lives Matter 'foundation' has raised millions of dollars
- Jeff Bezos will testify before Congress after all
- Anonymous Camera is the perfect protest companion
- Six eBay employees sent a bloody pig mask, live bugs to newsletter critics
- GitHub and others are replacing racist coding terms like 'master' and 'slave'
- The Virgil Abloh controversy / Dyson’s failed electric car
- Airbnb forks over host data in New York City settlement
- Google counter-sues Sonos for the same reason Sonos sued it in the first place
- Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan claim they're appalled by Trump's words
- Facebook bragged its work chat app could censor words like 'unionize'
- YouTube won't let users game its ads for BLM fundraising
- Electric Blockaloo, a music festival with over 850 artists, is happening in Minecraft
- Quit your job, Mark Zuckerberg! / The great Sonic debate
- Internet Archive kills its free digital library over copyright concerns
- Boeing is using Varjo's human-eye resolution VR to train astronauts
- Facebook's former head of product comes crawling back a year after leaving
- Joe Biden's campaign is out for Facebook and its speech policies
- Microsoft's president says its facial recognition technology is off-limits — for now
- Apple will finally let you trade in your Mac at U.S. retail stores
- Pocket Casts won't self-censor so it's been removed from the Chinese App Store
- You don't actually own the digital stuff you buy. This book explains why.
- Zoom blocked a Tiananmen virtual vigil on a paid U.S. account
- Reddit Ireland will close for eight hours each day to police hate
- (H)afrocentric is the comic for right now: Black, queer, and throwing punches
- Amazon has placed a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition
- Tinder says it will stop banning people for promoting Black Lives Matter
- Twitter will stop users when sharing an article they haven't read
- TikTok clone Zynn has been removed from the Play Store amid plagiarism claims
- Podhero's utopian podcasting model is too good to be sustainable
- 7 days in quarantine with Steve Aoki
- Tesla workers tested positive for COVID-19 after forced factory reopening
- Steve Aoki’s quarantine diary
- Itch.io's game bundle has raised $3.4M for racial justice, is now 1,400 titles deep
- This astronaut just did something no one else in history has accomplished
- Twitter won't let tweets claiming 5G causes COVID-19 go unchallenged anymore
- IBM will stop working on facial recognition tech and wants police reform
- Netflix snapped up the Space Force trademark before the U.S. government
- ByteDance is now restricting Chinese employees' access to overseas TikTok code
- Siri and Google Assistant can now shut down the 'All Lives Matter' crowd
- Facebook won't promote race war groups, but they can still exist
- The horrible cult of productivity / The wonderful part of Twitter
- Buy from these brands and help support racial equality and bail funds
- The police use Slack, but the company would rather we didn't know
- Racists spew racism in LinkedIn meeting about racial injustice
- Elon Musk wants to break up Amazon over anti-lockdown propaganda
- Help 'Detox Facebook' shame brands into pulling ads from Zuck's empire
- COVID-19 is creating commercial winners and losers. Here's the data to prove it.
- Protesters stole NYPD radios to blast 'Breaking the Law' by Judas Priest
- Reddit co-founder resigns, pledges future stock gains to Black causes
- Criterion Collection removes paywall for features and documentaries about black lives
- How New Balance got cool / The strange virtual world of IMVU
- The scope of Amazon's surveillance operation is staggering
- Bill Gates is worried 'stupid' conspiracies will discourage acceptance of a coronavirus vaccine
- Facebook will block ads from state-controlled foreign media outlets
- Lego pulls marketing for police-themed kits and donates $4 million to fight racism
- 'Geofence' warrants could let cops claim you were part of a protest
- Facebook let a politician's ad promoting shooting people run for days
- LinkNYC kiosks are displaying the names of police violence victims
- Apple draws a line in the sand regarding racism
- These robots are helping fight COVID-19 on the frontline
- Through light, researchers can communicate with neural cells
- Snapchat is removing Trump from the promotional Discover page
- CES plans to be a hotbed for COVID-19 next year too
- The DEA can now surveil you for anything. Leave your phone at home.
- Social Justice
- Mark Zuckerberg, resign from your role as CEO of Facebook
- Google has removed that viral Chinese-app scanner from the Play Store
- Zoom won't encrypt free calls so it can work with cops
- How ‘Uncut Gems’ stayed in focus / Betting on pro wrestling
- Zuckerberg defends Trump's 'looting and shooting' post as not racist
- Twitter suspended a guy who tweeted exactly what Trump tweets
- Facebook finally makes it easy to delete your old posts
- Website vandalism is off the charts thanks to COVID-19
- Send tear gas back where it came from with these leaf blowers
- Major publishers are suing the Internet Archive for copyright infringement
- A fake Antifa account on Twitter is linked to white supremacists
- Don't use BLM hashtags on blackout posts because it hides helpful posts
- How to fight racial injustice whether or not you can protest
- Activists hijacked Chicago police scanners and blasted 'Chocolate Rain'
- Instead of narcs, Dallas PD’s tip app was flooded with K-pop videos
- Facebook employees stage a virtual walk-out over Zuck's weak response to Trump's posts
- This open-source tool scrubs your protest photos of sensitive metadata
- An Android app that flags Chinese apps for removal is suddenly very popular
- Anonymous has resurfaced with Minneapolis police in its crosshairs after George Floyd's murder
- I can't stop thinking about bread during lockdown
- The Evolution of Beauty is the perfect book to understand dating, aesthetics, and thirst traps
- Obsessed with home decor / The Gizmondo’s wild history
