Portside

Bots, NBC and a comic book about disinformation

The summer of the flying lawsuits, and more dystopian drama

Tucker's strategy for psyching suckers

Tech war, trust busting, NYTimes turmoil, Hungary crackdown, and more media history in the making

Lawmakers are about to undertake their first major antitrust hearing in 50 years. They should make tech companies squirm.

Antitrust Probe; Dystopian Data Doc; Power, Privilege and Resistance; Mega Merger; CIA vs Journalists; Sanders and Corbyn Get the Short End; Silicon Valley Socialists

Some argue that the broadband market already has been carved up into a cartel, so blocking the acquisition would do little to bring down prices. Washington should examine a larger question beyond whether the deal is good or bad for consumers: Is it good for our democracy? We haven’t needed to ask this question for more than a century because America hasn’t experienced the present concentration of economic wealth and power in more than a century.