Factor Daily

The intersections of technology with people, organisations, and everything around us have been often misunderstood, under-reported and have not been analysed with the depth they deserve. When we started, we attempted to fill this gap by reporting stories from the tech-society intersection relevant to India. We produced a few stories everyday at first and, then about a year later, taking direction from our audience analytics, we moved to one deeply reported story a day. At the core, we believe technology has two sides-the illuminating side, where technology empowers, democratises, and overall transforms lives and shapes our future in fascinating ways. Truly, the wind beneath our wings. The other side is dark-vwhere tech weakens the already weak and nourishes all bad things from biases to snooping, bullying and so on. We have always been focused on doing stories that chronicle both these sides of technology since we started. And that mission remains intact. We want to move the needle in society around us by using the power of storytelling in a much more relentless way. We want our stories to touch the deep conscience of policymakers, think tanks, entrepreneurs, law enforcement and most importantly, the next generation of youth who can use our stories to become more aware. Raising public consciousness about issues in our story projects is an outcome we would love to achieve. And we want to do all this by combining the power of technology, new formats and design with journalism. Coming together in the middle of the pandemic has helped create a really special bonding among us in the FD 2.0 team over the past few weeks and months. We treasure that, and we are taking a leap of faith with this special bond we share among us and with many of you. Read the Launch Post