Month: September 2017
NYTimes: The Trump Voter Paradox
NYTimes: How Big Banks Became Our Masters
A case for alternative currencies?
How Big Banks Became Our Masters nyti.ms/2jZQBM6
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NYTimes: The More We Connect, the Better It Gets — for Facebook
The More We Connect, the Better It Gets — for Facebook nyti.ms/2jZZh53
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The New York Times: How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down
The New York Times: How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Down. google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwgpSwkTY
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NYTimes: The Abbie Hoffman of the Right: Donald Trump
NYTimes: Tyranny of the Minority
Obama tried to give Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook
The Guardian: Why Hillary Clinton was right about white women – and their husbands
The Guardian: Why Hillary Clinton was right about white women – and their husbands. google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw-sPYjzY
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NYTimes: Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t a ‘Fail,’ It’s a Feature
Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t a ‘Fail,’ It’s a Feature nyti.ms/2ykC0NJ
"The trouble is Facebook’s business model is structurally identical whether advertisers are selling shoes, politics or fake diet pills, and whether they’re going after new moms, dog lovers or neo-Nazis. The algorithms don’t know the difference, and Facebook’s customers are not its users.
Rather, as this latest incident should remind us, we are Facebook’s product. Our attention and eyeballs are sold to the highest bidders, whatever they may be peddling."
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