Reuters' Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked memos that reveal that: 10% of Meta revenue comes from scam ads, and; Meta knows it, and; decided not to stop about it, because; the fines for facilitating life-destroying fraud are less than the revenue from helping destroy users' lives:
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#15yrsago Colorado DA drops felony hit-and-run charges against billion-dollar financier because of “serious job implications” web.archive.org/web/2010110812…
The charm of old movie fan magazines is their sweetness. Their pages may have hinted at all sorts of sordid behavior, but their tone matched that of their most guileless reader—and they incorporated reader perspectives in every issue, printing copiou…
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new...
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14 oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/event…
This event will take place in EartH Theatre.
**Enshittification: Why The Internet Sucks Now**
Join us for the final Downstream IRL of the year, where Novara Media’s Aaron Bastani will be sitting down with one of the world’s sharpest tech critics, t…
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Facebook's fraud files: 10% of gross ad revenue coming from fraudulent ads.
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-08 15:40:17
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* Dick Cheney Doesn’t Deserve Your Heartfelt Eulogies theintercept.com/2025/11/04/di…
* Queen West Complete, Summer 2015 crowdfundr.com/queenwest2015?r…
* Does Ubiquitous Computing Need Interface Agents? cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~coopes/comp… (h/t Robin Sloan)
* America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani prospect.org/2025/11/04/americ…
* Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa climatedrift.substack.com/p/wh… (h/t Hacker News)
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Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
Skander Garroum (Climate Drift)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Singapore’s stocking-foot executioner web.archive.org/web/2005102910…
#20yrsago Cinemas as police-states: why box-office revenue is in decline? web.archive.org/web/2005110702…
#20yrsago Westchester Co’s clueless WiFi lawmakers demonstrate cluelessness psychicfriends.net/blog/archiv…
#20yrsago Katamari Damacy homemade models harveycartel.org/mare/pics/kat…
#15yrsago Cut-up artist alphabetizes the newspaper web.archive.org/web/2010110901…
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Nguyen executioner revealed - Top stories - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au
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#15yrsago Colorado DA drops felony hit-and-run charges against billion-dollar financier because of “serious job implications” web.archive.org/web/2010110812…
#10yrsago A Freedom of Information request for UK Home Secretary Theresa May’s metadata techdirt.com/2015/11/06/uk-hom…
#10yrsago Religious children more punitive, less likely to display altruism theguardian.com/world/2015/nov…
#10yrsago Once again, the SFPD blames a cyclist for his own death without any investigation sfist.com/2015/11/04/sfpd_once…
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SFPD Once Again Blames Cyclist For Own Death, City Refuses To Release Video Of Accident: SFist
Jack Morse (SFist - San Francisco News, Restaurants, Events, & Sports)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Paid Patriotism: Pentagon spent millions bribing sports teams to recognize military service huffpost.com/entry/defense-mil…
#10yrsago Spy at will! FCC won’t force companies to honor Do Not Track arstechnica.com/information-te…
#10yrsago TPP will let banks write their own regulations and stick taxpayers with the bill theintercept.com/2015/11/06/tt…
#10yrsago Typewriter portraiture, the strange story of 1920s ASCII art web.archive.org/web/2015110822…
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The Typewriter ASCII Portraits of Classic Hollywood and the Obsessive Fans Who Made Them
Andrew Heisel (Pictorial)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago QE, inflation, slave labor and a People's Bailout pluralistic.net/2020/11/07/oba…
#1yrago Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification pluralistic.net/2024/11/07/usu…
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Pluralistic: 07 Nov 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: The enshittification of labor; and more!
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Cory Doctorow
2025-11-07 16:12:41
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Book details - Macmillan Publishers
MacmillanCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Lisbon: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, with Rabble (Web Summit), Nov 12
websummit.com/sessions/lis25/9…
* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…
* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/event…
* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…
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Web Summit, Lisbon
Web SummitCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #London: Downstream IRL with Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…
* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…
* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-pres…
* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…
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Downstream IRL, Aaron Bastani in conversation with Cory Doctorow
DICECory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
libraryfoundationsd.org/events…
* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…
* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…
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Cory Doctorow Talks Enshittification
libraryfoundationsd.orgCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Reimagining Digital Public Infrastructure (Attention: Govern Or Be Governed)
youtube.com/watch?v=F8JuXDfDtB…
* Enshittification and How To Fight It (ILSR)
whoshallrule.com/p/enshittific…
* Big Tech’s “Enshittification” & Bill McKibben on Solar Hope for the Planet
writersvoice.net/2025/11/cory-…
* Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFy…
* Amanpour & Co (New Yorker Radio Hour)
youtube.com/watch?v=I8l1uSb0LZ…
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Enshittification and How To Fight It: A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
Ron Knox (Who Shall Rule)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: Facebook’s fraud files (08 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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It pleases my etymology-geek soul....
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