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Two competing narratives emerged last week after an article in tech blog Gizmodo accused Facebook of suppressing conservative news in its “trending topics” feature. Both are distractions from what I believe is the real issue. The first narrative is based on the allegations in the Gizmodo article: that Facebook’s news curators, who select the trending-topics items,…
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Click Trajectories: End-to-end analysis of the spam value chain – Levchenko et al. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2011 This week we’re going to be looking at some of the less desirable corners of the internet: spam, malvertisements, click-jacking, typosquatting, and friends. To kick things off, today’s paper gives an insight into the end-to-end…
post-image During a recent conference call with reporters, Fox TV Group chairmans Dana Walden and Gary Newman both made it clear that there is strong interest in seeing “The X-Files” return for another season, especially after the success of the recent 10th season. Walden proclaimed, “We have had conversations with Chris Carter and David Duchovny…
FB Newswire shared a post. Just now · WOMAN CLAIMS SHE WAS HARASSED AFTER BEING MISTAKEN FOR TRANSGENDER: A 22-year-old Connecticut woman said she was harassed in a bathroom in a Walmart in Danbury on Friday by a woman who mistakenly thought she was transgender. Aimée Toms said she was washing her hands in the…
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shout at the media prior to a rally at the Charleston Civic Center on May 5 in Charleston, W.Va. Mark Lyons/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Lyons/Getty Images Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shout at the media prior to a rally at the…
Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY PORTRA IMAGES / GETTY Barrier Status: ‘none’ mansplainer: A man compelled to explain or give an opinion about everything—especially to a woman. He speaks, often condescendingly, even if he doesn’t know what he’s talking about or even if it’s none of his business. Old term: a boor. —the Times. Men, you’re faced…
CBS brass took extra time to deliberate between Joan Rater and Tony Phelan’s two drama pilots for the network, legal drama Doubt and cop show Drew, a contemporary take on the character from the Nancy Drew books In the end, Doubt, which had had the edge heading into the final stretch, was picked up to series on Saturday….
Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images CBS’s Nancy Drew, whose pilot was written by Joan Rater and Tony Phelan (Grey’s Anatomy) and executive-produced by Rater, Phelan, and Dan Jinks, has not been picked up by the network for a series order. Persian actress Sarah Shahi (Person of Interest) would’ve been the first person of color to…
The drugmaker Purdue Pharma launched OxyContin two decades ago with a bold marketing claim: One dose relieves pain for 12 hours, more than twice as long as generic medications. Patients would no longer have to wake up in the middle of the night to take their pills, Purdue told doctors. One OxyContin tablet in the…