Recommended Reading: Shameware Phone Monitoring Apps Used by Churches

Dhruv Mehrotra, wired

Some churches ask worshipers to install activity tracking apps on their phones in the name of accountability. Many devotees are unaware that some software monitors much more than internet history. Some even take screenshots every minute before sending them to an "accountability partner". When asked about the apps, Google told Wired that two of the most popular violated its policies.

Elizabeth Dwoskin and Jeremy B. Merrill, The Washington Post

After the 2020 election, a wave of new influencers burst onto the scene, amassing a large following by echoing former President Donald Trump's voter fraud allegations.

Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic

"There is a fundamental tension in the tech industry between the desire to build at all costs, because building is a universal virtue, and the less flashy value system of nurturing the structures that already exist so they can thrive," Warzel writes. in his Galaxy Brain newsletter.

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