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CreditPHOTOGRAPH BY SPENCER PLATT / GETTY Barrier Status: ‘none’ Great. Just great. Nine years. That’s how long I’ve spent meticulously crafting an online persona that’s funny, trendy, tech-savvy, slightly self-deprecating, and nerdy in a conventionally acceptable way. Now it’s all falling apart. Trump hasn’t even been President for two months, and look at what’s happened….
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has instituted what it described as a temporary media blackout at the Environmental Protection Agency and barred staff from awarding any new contracts or grants. Emails sent to EPA staff since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday and reviewed by The Associated Press detailed specific prohibitions banning press releases,…
If you involve yourself with Airbnb in any way, you’re killing us all. Thanks. via Why Airbnb Is Terrible – Cracked Explains – YouTube.
Ev Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, spent five years building Medium into one of the slickest publishing platforms on the web. Yet he found himself in traditional-publishing purgatory on Wednesday, cutting 50 employees and searching for a new business model. There could be no better proof that delivery methods matter little and content is king….
James Dowson, a far-right political activist, ran a constellation of websites out of the United Kingdom. Credit Rex Features, via Associated Press The Patriot News Agency website popped up in July, soon after it became clear that Donald J. Trump would win the Republican presidential nomination, bearing a logo of a red, white and blue…
.entry-header Jonathan Albright, a professor at Elon University in North Carolina, is an expert in data journalism who has worked for both Google and Yahoo. He specializes in media analytics and social networks, and he has created a network map or topology that describes the landscape of the fake-news ecosystem. Even if Facebook and Google…
close story-meta Facts hold a sacred place in Western liberal democracies. Whenever democracy seems to be going awry, when voters are manipulated or politicians are ducking questions, we turn to facts for salvation. But they seem to be losing their ability to support consensus. PolitiFact has found that about 70 percent of Donald Trump’s “factual”…
close byline-meta close extended-byline close story-meta-footer close story-meta Photo Credit Doug Chayka Next week, if all goes well, someone will win the presidency. What happens after that is anyone’s guess. Will the losing side believe the results? Will the bulk of Americans recognize the legitimacy of the new president? And will we all be able…
TODO: defaulting to 2099 until we get the expiry date from toolbelt Noam Galai | Getty Images Alex Chung, CEO of Giphy GIFs — short, animated clips cut from iconic videos — have caught the eye of investors in Silicon Valley, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Giphy, a start-up that created a searchable…
The story, at first, was all too common on Twitter: A user received a threat from an anonymous troll, and Twitter didn’t take it seriously. In this case, the user was political consultant Peter Daou. Last week, he tweeted a video critical of Donald Trump, and an anonymous troll replied: “drown in your own cum…