Misinformation Is Bad. Prohibiting It Is Worse A proposed Australian law aimed at blocking false content would likely be applied selectively—and thereby further erode public trust in mainstream information sources. The Quillette Editorial Board 29 Sep 2024 · 9 min read
The Return of Right-Wing Cancel Culture It is dispiriting to watch some of the staunchest critics of woke politics engaging in their own brand of cancel culture. Josh Allan 25 Jul 2024 · 6 min read
The Digital Mirror of Narcissus Technology steers my life along tracks chosen for my digital double, not for me. But this proxy personalisation wouldn’t work at all if I didn’t play my part. Timandra Harkness 23 May 2024 · 11 min read
Stifling Free Speech Online: Australia’s Misinformation Bill Every censorship regime in history has claimed to be protecting the public. But no regime can have prior knowledge of what is true or good. It can only know what the approved narratives are. Toadworrier 23 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
Stop Opening Up About Your Mental Health Online Instagram being #HereForYou? Hahaha, please Freya India 8 Feb 2024 · 7 min read
The Case Against Content Moderation Aggressive content moderation is presented as a necessary response to hate speech and misinformation—but it's more like a moral panic. Sam Kahn 2 Feb 2024 · 15 min read
Hamas Cheerleaders Are All Over Instagram Since 10/7, young social-media users have been inundated with memes that present terrorists as social justice champions. Christina Buttons 16 Nov 2023 · 11 min read
The Instagram Panopticon Exhibitionism, voyeurism, and the cycle of judgement. Ed Smith 29 Jun 2023 · 16 min read
Little Liliths Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men. Marilyn Simon 12 May 2023 · 12 min read
I’m Loving Substack’s New ‘Notes’ Service. But Can the Good Times Last? Much as Substack originally supplied writers with a turnkey newsletter operation, Notes provides us with a turnkey form of community-building. Jonathan Kay 18 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Our New, Subscription-Based World Like Substack, Quillette is hoping to provide readers with more engagement, and less anger. The Quillette Editorial Board 10 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Ending Discrimination by Twitter Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction. Holly Lawford-Smith 28 Nov 2022 · 9 min read
Twitter is Not the Town Square Refashioning the private company as a legitimate town square would require more change than we realize. Angel Eduardo 23 Nov 2022 · 6 min read
Forget Elon Musk. Maybe the Problem with Twitter Is You No technical fix can remove the stress that comes with putting your opinions out into the world. And if you can’t handle that stress, you need to log off. Jonathan Kay 4 Nov 2022 · 6 min read
Reject the Rules of the Social Media Game The only winning move is not to play. Niamh Jiménez 10 Sep 2022 · 20 min read
