John Naughton

Columnist

<p>John is an engineer, an academic (co-founder of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at Cambridge) and a journalist. He's also an historian of the internet, a photographer and a blogger, and in an earlier life was The Observer's TV Critic for eight happy years when TV was worth watching.</p>

Musk’s war on Wikipedia is a fight for a fact-free future

Musk’s war on Wikipedia is a fight for a fact-free future

Social media is just TV now – and we can’t stop changing the channel

Social media is just TV now – and we can’t stop changing the channel

Is the AI bubble history repeating itself? Ask a chatbot

Is the AI bubble history repeating itself? Ask a chatbot

The wheels have come off Musk’s monstertruck

The wheels have come off Musk’s monstertruck

Here’s a video I’d like to share: Trump bagging TikTok for his investor pals

Here’s a video I’d like to share: Trump bagging TikTok for his investor pals

’Til ChatGPT do us part: how chatbots are breaking up marriages

’Til ChatGPT do us part: how chatbots are breaking up marriages

The ‘three-sickbag spectacle’ of tech bros at the court of Trump 2.0

The ‘three-sickbag spectacle’ of tech bros at the court of Trump 2.0

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