The Latest Breaking News from Max Fisher

A stark warning about the extent to which Facebook et al distort our perception of reality

U.S. railroads are poised to stop shipments of farm products and other key goods starting Thursday as the industry braces for a possible labor strike that could cost the world’s biggest economy more than $2 billion a day.

In his new book, journalist Max Fisher unpacks how social media companies have engineered our feeds to keep us angry, and keep us online.

A new gender pay gap report has revealed women are earning $1 billion less per week than men, and the NSW town of Dubbo looks to climate-proof its water supply after recent flooding contaminated it with animal waste, leaving citizens without drinkable water for nearly a week now. It’s the…