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Facebook Is Ubiquitous. But Will It Be Trusted?

by Conor Sen | Oct 17, 2017 | Opinion

This has been the year of Facebook. Its stock price has increased by around 50 percent as it continues to assert its dominance in user activity and digital ad revenue. It undercut one of the companies trying to catch up with it, Snap, by adding a similar feature,...

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The “Facebook”-logo is pictured on the sidelines of a press preview of the so-called “Facebook Innovation Hub” in Berlin on February 24, 2016. TOBIAS SCHWARZ AFP/Getty Images

Facebook Marks the End of Social Media’s Wild West

by Conor Sen | Sep 27, 2017 | Opinion

The news that Facebook will turn over details of Russian ad buys to Congress recalls a column written by my colleague Eli Lake early year. He wrote that in forcing National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to resign, President Donald Trump “caved in to his...

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Trump has surrendered, but the nation hasn’t. Photographer: Pool/Getty Images

US Is Still a Global Leader?

by Conor Sen | Jul 14, 2017 | Opinion

If you think of the US as a global leader, these are troubling times. This past week’s G-20 meeting showed how weak the US has become. At a big international summit, the president seems uninterested and withdrawn. But America is not now and has never been a...

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Finding and extracting oil is expensive. No wonder it’s slowed down. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg

How This Economic Recovery Ends

by Conor Sen | Jun 16, 2017 | Business, Opinion

Every boom in the US economy is different, but over the past several decades, each has ended the same way. First you get full employment. Then you get a spike in the price of oil. And then there’s a recession. The US hit full employment in August 2015. And yet...