The Washington Post has detailed the vicious circle between two different political groups that is breeding unintentional misinformation - and increasing polarisation
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A collection of 25 posts
A quick glimpse at the next evolution of Facebook's newsfeed
Mark has plans to make you fully immersed…
Help for Harassers
Been caught “making women uncomfortable”? Need an excuse apology? Here you go. It really points up how pathetic some of these “apologies” are.…
The family that influences together, stays together
Videos like this make me very glad my wife is a social media refusenik.…
What a bunch of anchors…
I know it’s been a difficult and stressful year for the news business, but was this* Anchorman* riff from the Channel 4, ITV and Sky News teams really necessary? Well, OK, probably.…
The Economist on the economics of cartooning
The Economist have been posting some older, evergreen (or “stock” content, for regular readers…) on Medium. The piece on cartooning is particularly worth reading: Cartoons go way back before newspapers. They have their origins in the caricatures and illustrations of…
The Circle looks like a movie for our times
Rarely has a trailer for a movie adaptation of a book been more timely… Watch the EXCLUSIVE first trailer for the adaptation of Dave Eggers' #TheCircle starring @EmmaWatson and @TomHanks: https://t.co/92cJBvDhKK pic.twitter.com/wv3jeIVYR0 — USA TODAY…
On criticism and appropriate times
Now is not the time to criticise the Galaxy Note 7: Now, I’m not going to stand here and pretend like this phone doesn’t have problems. After all, the proof that it gets overheated and explodes for practically…