"We filmed four dozen original interviews while making The Facebook Dilemma. Our reporting team conducted in-depth interviews with current and former Facebook executives, internet activists, government and intelligence officials in the United States and around the world, the digital chief of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and leading journalists and scholars. Explore many of these interviews - and see how we used them in the film - in this interactive version of The Facebook Dilemma, part of FRONTLINE's Transparency Project."

"There is no iPhone equivalent for children, and there never has been. For the most part, kids are stuck with their parents' hand-me-down smartphones, and the onus is on the parent to install the necessary parental controls. So, why hasn't Silicon Valley successfully made a phone for children? And if it did, what would such a device actually look like?"

A page from The Altantic, and sponsored Walmart, that looks at what shopping my be like in the future.

"Attention: everybody wants some - social media, tech companies and more. Watch these talks to better understand the ways these entities try and get on your radar."

"We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response."

"Kids like weird things: Yellow sponge-boys, talking doe-eyed ponies, ruddy-cheeked rodents that say only "pika pika," and, especially in the past few years, unboxing videos. Kids' unboxing videos are YouTube series in which children, or in some cases just disembodied hands, take toys out of their packaging and play with them as uplifting music plays in the background. One particularly popular video shows a small boy unwrapping and then assembling a child-size electric car, using plastic tools that would surely fall apart in less practiced hands. He then drives the car down the sidewalk through an eerily empty neighborhood to a playground that is also completely empty, where he plays by himself, presumably because all the other neighborhood children are busy watching YouTube. The video has 267 million views."

"eople are known to walk, talk, and eat while sleeping. Increasingly, sleep texting is joining the list. A study from Villanova University found that the habit of using smartphones to message friends while still asleep - and having no memory of doing it - is a common technology trend among adolescents and young adults. The paper, "Interrupted sleep: College students sleeping with technology," was published last month in the Journal of American College Health. The study is the first nursing article to look at sleep texting. Researchers concluded it was a growing trend in the college student population."

"Fake news is nothing new. Despite its rise to fame thanks to the 2016 presidential election, the phenomenon has been around since humans have been able to relay information - from spoken word to the first newspapers and now, to social media. It's also nothing to be afraid of. When armed with the right tools and information, anyone can spot fake news from a mile away. NewseumEd offers free classes and resources on media literacy.  But if you're in a hurry, here's a quick guide to identifying fake news. "

"The First Amendment protects individuals from government censorship. Social media platforms are private companies, and can censor what people post on their websites as they see fit. But given their growing role in public discourse, it's important to ask ourselves-what exactly are their censorship policies? How do they compare to each other, and to the First Amendment's protections?"

"The messaging app, which is owned by Facebook, has been slow to address false news on its service. The problem may be less the company or product, and more WhatsApp the idea."

"Amazon and other tech giants have made devices connected to the internet increasingly prevalent. Now is the time to be freaking out about the dangers."

"We evolved to want variable rewards. What happens when smartphones give them to us?"

"But things aren't always what they seem. Instagram may have started as a platform for sharing photos with family and friends, but its value as one of the most effective modern marketing tools is undeniable. And that's what much of this is: marketing. What makes Instagram so powerful is its ability to seamlessly blend advertising and "organic" content together, often via influencers who are paid to promote brands in a way that appears as natural as posting photos of one's breakfast. In the case of food and wellness influencers, they're doing both simultaneously. A vibrant photo of a colorful smoothie bowl could be peppered with sponsored hashtags citing the brands involved, but the image offers instant gratification without the tedious, preachy exposition we find so grating in other forms of advertising. Add to this the fact that Instagram suggests similar content based on things we've liked and followed in the past, and our feeds become a never-ending billboard. During the height of my disordered eating days, I often looked to Instagram to tell me what was "healthy" or socially "acceptable" to eat. But why? Influencers aren't nutrition experts, by and large; they post for engagement, not to dole out useful advice to their followers. A 2017 Men's Health UK article laments, "With so many wellness advocates being hailed as - if not necessarily claiming to be - 'nutrition experts', who should you trust?" A 2015 article from The Guardian echoes the sentiment, claiming that influencer food and wellness advice "is often served up with a hefty side dish of misinformation and encouragement of food phobias. After all, being obsessive about healthy eating isn't actually all that healthy.""

"The internet once seemed to promise an endless, uncensored repository of memories. In high school, I dreamed about one day revisiting Myspace and LiveJournal, my online haunts, where every good and bad night was documented in something close to real time. I thought I would be in the first generation to remember everything. Lately, the possibility sounds more like a nightmare. Old tweets now sour the fortunes of people who have something to lose. Director James Gunn was fired after pedophilia jokes from 2010 and 2011 were resurfaced by a right-wing smear campaign. Brewers reliever Josh Hader was forced to apologize before his inaugural All-Star game appearance after he was caught being racist online as a teenager. WWE wrestler Cedric Alexander did the same after an old one-liner about rape was dredged up from the ether. So, I asked a few people why they decided to obliterate their online pasts - which once lived so clearly in stream-of-consciousness Twitter timelines - in hopes of understanding what's going on here."

"Smartphone ownership has become a nearly ubiquitous element of teen life: 95% of teens now report they have a smartphone or access to one. These mobile connections are in turn fueling more-persistent online activities: 45% of teens now say they are online on a near-constant basis. The survey also finds there is no clear consensus among teens about the effect that social media has on the lives of young people today. Minorities of teens describe that effect as mostly positive (31%) or mostly negative (24%), but the largest share (45%) says that effect has been neither positive nor negative. These are some of the main findings from the Center's survey of U.S. teens conducted March 7-April 10, 2018. Throughout the report, "teens" refers to those ages 13 to 17."

"A cognition crisis is not defined by a lack of information, knowledge or skills. We have done a fine job in accumulating those and passing them along across millennia. Rather, this a crisis at the core of what makes us human: the dynamic interplay between our brain and our environment - the ever-present cycle between how we perceive our surroundings, integrate this information, and act upon it. This ancient perception-action cycle ensured our earliest survival by allowing our primordial predecessors to seek nutrients and avoid toxins. It is from these humble beginnings that the human brain evolved to pursue more diverse resources and elude more inventive threats. It is from here that human cognition emerged to support our success in an increasingly complex and competitive environment: attention, memory, perception, creativity, imagination, reasoning, decision making, emotion and aggression regulation, empathy, compassion, and wisdom. And it is here that our crisis exists. Today, hundreds of millions of people around the world seek medical assistance for serious impairments in their cognition: major depressive disorder, anxiety, schizophrenia, autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, dyslexia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addiction, dementia, and more. In the United States alone, depression affects 16.2 million adults, anxiety 18.7 million, and dementia 5.7 million - a number that is expected to nearly triple in the coming decades."

"Kapur came to MIT's Media Lab from New Delhi in 2016 to build wearable devices that seamlessly integrate technology into our 24/7 experience. No more reaching for cellphones. No more staring at screens. No more eyes down. No more tuning out to plug in. Improbably, AlterEgo, the soundless, voiceless, earbud-less device he'd been working on for the last two years had become adept enough at reading his thoughts that he could use it to order an Uber without saying a word."

"Few could have foreseen that our relationship with photography would become so intimate. The obsessive recording of our lives even seems to affect how we experience and remember the world. We see more moments through the camera, and we spend even more time looking at our phones, watching the lives of others. Phones and experiences go hand in hand. We walk through the world looking for moments to capture, which in turn shape the way we experience our environment. Given how many photos we now take, it's no wonder some worry it impedes on "real life." Many of us have been told to put down our phone and live in the moment, but there is also real science to back this up. An intensive social media habit can impair the way we store memories, researchers have found. A 2018 study confirmed that participants were less likely to remember objects they photographed than objects they simply observed. This is known as the "photo-taking-impairment effect" and was first identified in 2014."

""If, as many climate models suggest, our planet becomes one of killer heat waves, fickle rain, and baked croplands, might new human societies emerge in places currently unappealing for settlement?" asks Laurence C. Smith, a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, in his book, The World in 2050 - Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future. "Could the 21st century see the decline of the southwestern United States and European Mediterranean, but the ascent of the northern United States, Canada, Scandinavia, and Russia?" According to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the international body that evaluates the science of climate change, the answer, for the year 2100, is "Yes." At that time, when Earth's atmosphere contains 1,000 parts per million of carbon dioxide - highly plausible, scientists say; today it's 410 ppm - places such as Greenland, Canada, Russia, and the northern United States would be significantly warmer and receive more precipitation than today. They would be downright livable. Based on today's climate science, here are five of the best places to live in 2100."