Ev Williams admits that the internet is broken and suggests course corrections, apologizing for Twitter’s role in putting Trump in the White House.
The New York Times
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Finding My Florida
A region-by-region travelogue of Jason Diamond’s road trip through the Sunshine State. Driving through Florida from top to bottom helps Diamond better understand a state with a variety of image problems—a state everyone else in his family eventually migrated to—and the ways in which he might and might not have fit in if he’d ever […]
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‘The Internet Is Broken’: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It
As Twitter, Facebook, and Google try to deal with their unexpected toxicity, the internet continues to reward extremism at the expense of quality, depth, and thoughtfulness. In The New York Times, David Streitfeld reflects on what social media has wrought on society by profiling Twitter co-founder Evan Williams’ attempts to course-correct with Medium.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Renee Montagne, Nina Martin, Alex Tizon, Mary Mann, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, and Andy Newman.
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The Doctor Dolittle of the Upper West Side
Bowel-obstructed bunnies, lame ducks, and festering iguanas at Manhattan’s only exotic animal vet.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we’re sharing stories by Caity Weaver, Matthew Desmond, Chris J. Rice, Kent Russell, and Rafe Bartholomew.
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In Your Dreams: A Reading List
In dreams, everything looks familiar but wrong somehow. Here are six stories about what happens between sleep and wakefulness.
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An Ode to Black Families: A Reading List
This narrative of the black family in America always been inadequate. It has never told the full story of what I know about black love.
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Alexander Chee: ‘He thought I wanted monogamy more than him, and I didn’t.’
Alexander Chee didn’t realize that his boyfriend, M., was pretending to be someone content to be monogamous.
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‘Women and Girls Were Not Jumping Up and Down to be Interviewed’: Rukmini Callamichi on Interviewing ISIS Sex Slaves
The New York Times correspondent tells the story behind the story to Columbia Journalism Review.