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The Unbearable Lightness of BuzzFeed
“BuzzFeed built a digital media empire in part by aggregating viral content from social media. A decade later, what’s next?”
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Deleting Delusions
“With more than four billion people now active on social media platforms, our virtual lives are beginning to devour our actual ones.”
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Becoming Human Again: A Reading List for the Extremely Offline
Think it’s time to get off social media? Then this is the reading list for you.
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Of Innocence and Experience
“Can anybody really say that socially reproducing the present state of things is a desirable goal? So, then, what do we dream of?”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we have stories by Dan Kois, Matt Gallagher, Marina Benjamin, Caleb Daniloff, and Vauhini Vara.
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How Facebook Got Addicted to Spreading Misinformation
“The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can’t fix the problem.”
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How a Massacre of Nearly 300 in Syria Was Revealed
This is a truly harrowing account, with vivid descriptions of a mass execution. It cannot but upset you, yet depicts a truth that should not be veiled. It is written by two academic researchers who miraculously managed to uncover, and interview, one of the perpetrators by tracing him on Facebook. It is an impressive investigation […]
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What Went Wrong With Substack Local
A little more than a year ago, newsletter darling Substack announced a million-dollar initiative to help fund local journalism. How’d that turn out? As Andrew Federov reports for the (non-Substack) media newsletter The Fine Print, not great. In some instances, Substack did step in to offer business support. “Substack put up a round of Facebook […]
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Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
” No single machine should be able to control so many people.”
