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Explore Foreign Affairs’ coverage of the largest and most influential tech companies in the world, including Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft—and what their domination of the technology industry and outsized influence means for domestic and international politics.
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- What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About National Security
Margaret Mullins - The End of Cybersecurity
Jen Easterly - The Cost of the AGI Delusion
Michael C. Horowitz and Lauren A. Kahn - The Technopolar Paradox
Ian Bremmer - The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman - The Path to American Authoritarianism
Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way - Big Tech’s Coup
Marietje Schaake - The Secret to Japanese and South Korean Innovation
Ramon Pacheco Pardo and Robyn Klingler-Vidra - Why the Military Can’t Trust AI
Max Lamparth and Jacquelyn Schneider - What the TikTok Bill Gets Wrong
Aynne Kokas - A World Divided Over Artificial Intelligence
Aziz Huq - The Right Way to Regulate AI
Alondra Nelson - The Premature Quest for International AI Cooperation
Marietje Schaake - Gaza and the Future of Information Warfare
P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking - Hamas’s Asymmetric Advantage
Audrey Kurth Cronin - The Merchant’s Leviathan
Caroline Elkins - Artificial Intelligence for the Poor
Daniel Björkegren - The Treacherous Silicon Triangle
Larry Diamond, Jim Ellis, and Orville Schell - To Compete With China on Tech, America Needs to Fix Its Immigration System
Eric Schmidt - Innovation Power
Eric Schmidt - Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy
Jessica T. Mathews - The World Tech Made
Margaret O’Mara - Big Tech Goes to War
Christine H. Fox and Emelia S. Probasco - How Silicon Valley Lost the Chips Race
Chris Miller - The Chinese Way of Innovation
Matt Sheehan - The Age of AI and Our Human Future
G. John Ikenberry - Digital Disorder
- Content Moderation and Self-Regulation Mechanisms: The Facebook Oversight Board and Its Implications for Latin America
Richard Feinberg - Facebook and India’s Paradox of Inclusion
Vinay Sitapati - The Fall and Rise of Techno-Globalism
Graham Webster and Justin Sherman - El Momento Tecnopolar
Ian Bremmer - An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
Jessica T. Mathews - The Technopolar Moment
Ian Bremmer - Antimonopoly Power
Barry C. Lynn - The Resurgence of the Rest
Ruchir Sharma - Does Big Tech Hurt U.S. National Security?
- Data Is Power
Matthew J. Slaughter and David H. McCormick - China’s Techno-Authoritarianism Has Gone Global
Maya Wang - The Innovation Wars
Christopher Darby and Sarah Sewall - Why Beijing Is Bringing Big Tech to Heel
Josh Freedman - Financial Technology Is China’s Trojan Horse
Nadia Schadlow and Richard Kang - The Capitol Siege Is the Wake-up Call America Shouldn’t Have Needed
Larry Diamond - How to Save Democracy From Technology
Francis Fukuyama, Barak Richman, and Ashish Goel - Big Tech Can Help Bring War Criminals to Justice
Alexa Koenig - The Coming Tech Cold War With China
Adam Segal - Facebook’s Flawed Plan to End Antiquities Trafficking
Amr Al-Azm and Katie Paul - Pinning Down Putin
Victoria Nuland - Making Cyberspace Safe for Democracy
Laura Rosenberger - How Civic Technology Can Help Stop a Pandemic
Jaron Lanier and E. Glen Weyl - Too Big to Prevail
Ganesh Sitaraman - How to Win the Battle Over Data
Eric Rosenbach and Katherine Mansted - How Big Tech Can Fight White Supremacist Terrorism
Daniel Byman and Christopher Meserole - The Internet Freedom League
Richard A. Clarke and Rob Knake - Not Your Father’s Bots
Sarah Kreps and Miles McCain - Will Facebook’s Libra Change the Way the World Banks?
Kevin Werbach - U.S. Elections Are Still Not Safe From Attack
Lawrence Norden and Daniel I. Weiner - Huawei Heads South
Oliver Stuenkel - Killer Apps
Paul Scharre - Why Russia Might Shut Off the Internet
Andrei Soldatov - The Venture Capital State: The Silicon Valley Model in East Asia
Richard N. Cooper - Globalization 4.0
Klaus Schwab - Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War
Danielle Citron and Robert Chesney - What Clausewitz Can Teach Us About War on Social Media
P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking - The Internet’s Lost Promise
Karen Kornbluh - Data to the People
Nandan Nilekani - A Big Choice for Big Tech
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge - How Silicon Valley Can Protect U.S. Democracy
Jamie M. Fly and Laura Rosenberger - The False Prophecy of Hyperconnection
Niall Ferguson - How Germany Is Tackling Hate Speech
Heidi Tworek - Defending Digital Globalization
Susan Lund and James Manyika - Between a Wall and a Hard Place
Simon Whistler - How to Counter Fake News
Martin J. O’Malley and Peter L. Levin - Is Twitter Hurting Ethiopia?
James F. Jeffrey - How ISIS Endures By Innovating
David L. Knoll - What Science Can't Explain
Mikkel Krenchel and Christian Madsbjerg - The End of the Old Israel
Aluf Benn - Reading the World
Andrei Soldatov - Wealthier World, Poorer Nation
Jack A. Goldstone - The Irrelevant Diplomat
Alex Oliver - Called Out
Henry Farrell - The Good News From Google
- America, Online
Adam D. Sheingate - Digital Love in India
Ira Trivedi - Putin Trolls Facebook
Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan - Virtual Aid to Nepal
Patrick Meier - The Violence of Algorithms
Taylor Owen - Open Net
Marvin Ammori - Dragon Net
Jonathan Woetzel and Jeongmin Seong - The Other Facebook Revolution
Catie Bailard - Son of Enron?
Paul Gillis - The Truth About Taxes
Matt Mossman - The Case for Net Neutrality
Marvin Ammori - New World Order
Michael Spence, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Andrew McAfee - Electric Avenue
David M. Levinson - Misreading Turkey's Twitter Controversy
Y. Alp Aslandogan - Man in the Middle
Steven A. Cook - Trial By Twitter
Halil Karaveli - Beyond GDP
Diane Coyle - Privacy Pragmatism
Craig Mundie - Just the Facts
Glenn Kessler