The withdrawal of a YouGov survey on church attendance reveals far more than methodological problems in polling—it exposes fundamental contradictions in how knowledge is produced under digital capitalism. The survey industry's reliance on opt-in, paid respondents created an economic incentive...
The US court verdict holding Meta and YouTube liable for designing addictive technology represents a significant moment in the evolving relationship between tech capital, the state, and civil society. Yet the dominant framing—shared by governments, campaigners, and media alike—treats platform...
This landmark trial against Meta and Google illuminates the material basis of platform capitalism: the systematic extraction of value from human attention and behavioral data. The design features under scrutiny—infinite scroll, autoplay, notification systems—are not bugs but features of an...
This article documents a textbook case of the capitalist class wielding its economic power to shape political outcomes directly in its favor. California's proposed billionaire tax—a modest 5% one-time levy on assets exceeding $1 billion to fund education, healthcare, and food assistance—has...
The UK Competition and Markets Authority's agreement with Apple and Google reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of capitalist state regulation: the state's structural dependence on capital accumulation limits its capacity to meaningfully constrain that same capital. Despite formally...
Sam Altman's OpenAI represents a crystallization of late-stage capitalist accumulation dynamics, where massive resource extraction—energy consumption exceeding entire European nations, $1.4 trillion in datacenter investment—is justified through utopian promises of solving climate change and...