July 1, 2020 Join the Vox Book Club! Zac Freeland/Vox Our pick for July 2020 is Rodham, by Curtis Sittenfeld. Here’s how the Vox Book Club works: Every month, we pick a…
July 1, 2020 America has almost 800 billionaires, a record high Mike Bloomberg at Sun Valley, a conference popular with billionaires. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images The debate over whether the world’s megarich are too rich…
June 30, 2020 Facebook nears a tipping point when it comes to moderating hate speech Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images The social media giant just banned dozens of “boogaloo” extremist accounts. On Tuesday afternoon, Facebook announced that it had…
June 30, 2020 Okay, Google, how do I listen to Vox? Hear quick daily updates from Vox by asking Google Assistant to “play my news update.” | Google There’s a new way to listen to…
June 30, 2020 Blockbuster should have killed Netflix. What happened? A Blockbuster storefront in March 2010, shortly before the company filed for bankruptcy protection. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images It’s the newest chapter of our…
June 29, 2020 The real cost of Amazon Courtney Bowden, 30, in front of the Amazon flex warehouse in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, on June 14. Bowden was fired in March. |…
June 29, 2020 How deepfakes could actually do some good Volunteers allowed their faces to be filmed, and mapped onto the faces of anonymous survivors who appeared in the documentary, “Welcome to Chechnya.” A…
June 29, 2020 The real cost of Amazon Courtney Bowden, 30, in front of the Amazon flex warehouse in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, on June 14. Bowden was fired in March. |…
June 26, 2020 Working for Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy isn’t always easy since it means working for Mark Zuckerberg “Although we are separate organizations with different missions and teams, we know it must be frustrating to feel like your work is impacted by…
June 25, 2020 Facebook’s war against one of the internet’s worst conspiracy sites James Bareham for Vox/Recode Facebook has banned this conspiracy site twice. But its content can still sneak back on. It’s been a year since…