David Auerbach is a writer and software engineer based in New York, and a fellow at New America.

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Has Social Media—and the Way It Shapes How We Think—Boosted Bernie Sanders?

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Feb 17, 2016 12:31 PM
Twitter Needs to Halt Harassment and Fix Its Business. Here’s a Plan to Do Both.

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Jan 25, 2016 5:00 PM
Why Does Facebook Think I’m Interested in Becoming Eastern Orthodox?

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Jan 21, 2016 2:33 PM
Can a Field in Which Physicists Think Like Economists Help Us Achieve Universal Knowledge?

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Jan 19, 2016 2:10 PM
How Bad Is Microsoft’s Push Against Its Users’ Privacy?

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Jan 07, 2016 12:25 PM
The Irresponsible Claim That Antidepressants During Pregnancy Cause Autism

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Dec 16, 2015 2:33 PM
Why You Shouldn’t Believe the “Hacktivists” Who Say They’re Taking on ISIS

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Dec 10, 2015 3:27 PM
It Doesn’t Matter if You Trust Mark Zuckerberg’s Philanthropy. It’s a Big Problem That We Even Need It.

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Dec 01, 2015 10:18 PM
Anyone Who Says Encryption Backdoors Will Stop Terrorism Is Profoundly Ignorant

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Nov 19, 2015 4:53 PM
This Pseudoscience Preys on People With Disabilities and Is Infiltrating Schools

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Nov 12, 2015 5:40 AM
Facebook Just Suggested I Friend My Landlord. Does That Mean He’s Been Cyberstalking Me?

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Oct 23, 2015 1:05 PM
Crowdfunding Failed to Revolutionize Gaming. Prison Architect Shows It Still Has a Shot.

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Oct 20, 2015 10:33 AM
The Gun-Control Debate Won’t Be Won With Statistics

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Oct 07, 2015 5:55 PM
Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal Has a Villain, and It’s Not Any of the People Who Took the Fall

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Oct 01, 2015 9:55 AM
A Kind of A.I. Called Machine Learning Is Reshaping How We Live. It’s Time We Understood It.

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Sept 25, 2015 1:34 PM
The U.S. Can’t Keep Its Own Data Safe. How Dare It Demand a Back Door to Yours.

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Sept 16, 2015 4:54 PM
**** You have lost ****: A 1980s Video Game Memoir, Reviewed

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Sept 11, 2015 10:59 AM
Some Luddites Wear Corsets and Fear iPhones. Others Have a Pretty Good Point.

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Sept 09, 2015 6:26 PM
Wittgenstein Explains Why We Always Misunderstand One Another on the Internet

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Sept 01, 2015 9:56 AM
I Worked at Microsoft and Google. Here’s Why I Doubt Amazon Is That Much Worse.

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Aug 17, 2015 4:02 PM