—Eli Pariser and Deepti Doshi
Final week, when Mark Zuckerberg introduced that Meta would finish third-party fact-checking, it was a stunning flip, however not precisely stunning. It is simply the newest instance of a multibillion-dollar change affecting our on-line social lives.
Zuckerberg is not the one social media CEO stumbling alongside the way in which: Elon Musk, since shopping for Twitter in 2022 and touting free speech as “the muse of a functioning democracy,” has suspended journalists, reinstated tens of 1000’s of banned customers, has introduced assist for political promoting and weakened verification and harassment insurance policies.
Sadly, these capricious billionaires can do no matter they need due to an possession mannequin that favors sole, centralized management in alternate for shareholder returns. The Web does not should be like this. However fortunately, simply in time a brand new means is rising. Learn the complete story.
Determine the destiny of the “surplus” embryos
For the previous few months, I’ve been engaged on a article about IVF embryos. The objective of in vitro fertilization is to create infants via a bit of lab work: set off the discharge of many eggs, insert them into sperm in a lab, switch one of many ensuing embryos to an individual’s uterus, and cross your fingers for being pregnant. wholesome. Typically it does not work. However it’s typically like that. For the article, I explored what occurs to the wholesome embryos that stay.
These days, IVF clinics at all times discuss to folks about the potential for having leftover embryos earlier than beginning remedy. However it may be actually tough to make these choices earlier than you have even began remedy, and a few folks cannot think about having something left, or how they might really feel about it. Learn the complete story.
—Jessica Hamzelou
