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Just How Much of the World Is Urban? (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 12/11/2018 - 10:53Democratic candidates and their affiliates spent more than three times as much money as Republicans on facebook ads (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/05/2018 - 12:11We Tested Facebook’s Ad Screeners and Some Were Too Strict (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/05/2018 - 06:30The Dilemma of Anti-Semitic Speech Online
In some corners of the internet, the tired hypothetical of free speech has been turned on its head: There isn’t one person yelling “fire” in a crowded theater, but a theater full of people yelling “Burn it down.” All of which complicates the situation for the big internet companies. Over the past 10 years, free speech has undergone a radical change in practice. Now nearly all significant speech runs through a corporate platform, be it a large hosting provider, WordPress, Facebook, or Twitter. Speech may be free by law, but attention is part of an economy.
The Pittsburgh Suspect’s Internet of Hate (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 10/29/2018 - 14:44News for Democracy Quietly Spending Millions on Facebook Political Ads (Atlantic, The)
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Sen Mark Warner (D-VA) Is Coming for Tech's Too-Powerful
A Q&A with Sen Mark Warner (D-VA).
Silicon Valley Sieve: A Timeline of Tech-Industry Leaks (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/11/2018 - 12:27Is Alexa Dangerous?
We’re all falling for Alexa, unless we’re falling for Google Assistant, or Siri, or some other genie in a smart speaker. Privacy concerns have not stopped the march of these devices into our homes, however. Amazon, Google, and other tech corporations have grand ambitions. They want to colonize everyday space. The company that succeeds in cornering the smart-speaker market will lock appliance manufacturers, app designers, and consumers into its ecosystem of devices and services, just as Microsoft tethered the personal-computer industry to its operating system in the 1990s.