Jennifer Conrad

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What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley

Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace, former imperial gardens looted by European troops during the Opium Wars. “At...

The Overlooked Upsides of Algorithms in the Workplace

You describe the potential of using candidate-screening technology that takes the form of an online game, like Wasabi Waiter from a company called Knack, where a person is a server in a busy...

How Chinese Netizens Swamped China’s Internet Controls

The tragedy came as frustrations with zero-Covid policies were already starting to spike. Violent confrontations had broken out between workers and security at a Foxconn plant in Zhengzhou that manufactures iPhones. Scott Kennedy, of...

China’s Digital Yuan Works Just Like Cash—With Added Surveillance

By the mid-2010s, Chinese people in big cities had generally switched from using cash to using Alipay and WeChat Pay. By the end of 2021, about 64 percent of Chinese people were...

How Retail App Temu Lures US Shoppers With Mind-Bending Prices

The prices seem almost too good to be true: Lenovo wireless earbuds for $3.70, an eyebrow pencil for 59 cents, two outdoor solar lamps for $6.39—all delivered for free. Welcome to Temu,...

China's WeChat Is a Hot New Venue for US Election Misinformation

When Chinese-language misinformation appears on US platforms like YouTube or Facebook, activists say it seems to get less actively moderated than English content, a pattern that has also been documented for other...

The US and EU are Teaming Up to Contain Big Tech

Are there areas where you think there can be more collaboration among regulators?We work very closely with our US counterparts, both the DOJ and the FTC. If we start a competition case,...

Jennifer Conrad

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