Archive - October 18th, 2016

How Facebook Found Itself At The Center Of One Of The World’s Most Volatile Conflicts

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“That Facebook would play the role of a faithful handmaiden of the Indian state in these efforts to stop people from telling the real stories of Kashmir is distressing and alarming” One July morning, a Kashmiri writer named Arif Ayaz Parrey was chatting with a friend on Facebook Messenger when suddenly the service logged him […]

In February, I subscribed to all the presidential candidates’ email lists.

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“So the emails become an interesting lens through which to examine each campaign’s opinion of its supporters. Do they think they’re the type of people who’re driven by hope, or by fear? By sincere human appeals, or by stern orders? By pleading, or by threats? Or like Jeb!, by just being pathetic? […] “It’s clear […]

Chronoto.pe

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No, it really isn’t. “Twitter Inc.’s long struggle to define itself goes hand in hand with its recent inability to grow beyond its active but hard to grasp subcommunities. The mix of content, curation, humor, self-promotion and invective confounds its product teams, leaders and investors.” via Facebook http://ift.tt/2egYkmK through IFTTT

The white flight of Derek Black

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The excellent story of how one Shabbat dinner helped to change the mind of a youth leader of the white power movement. A good reminder that reaching out to others is a good dead that we never know the value of in the moment. A former heir to a racial nationalist movement reconsiders the ideology […]