The supply of disinformation will soon be infinite: Disinformation campaigns used to require a lot of human effort to be effective, but now artificial intelligence could take them to a whole new level ~tech Article 9 votes
College newspaper reporters are the journalism heroes for the pandemic era ~news journalism usa Article 1137 words 5 votes
Ultra Strips Down is a Danish children's TV show that aims to counter a social media that bombards young people with images of perfect bodies ~tv Article 1490 words 13 votes
Dwindling ranks and declining public trust plague police agencies amid summer of protests ~life work Article 1805 words 8 votes
RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1% - The median worker should be making as much as $102,000 annually—if some $2.5 trillion wasn’t being “reverse distributed” every year ~finance economics Article 1424 words 33 votes
Is the University of Edinburgh right to rename its David Hume Tower? ~humanities philosophy education.higher Article 1106 words 9 votes
What factors have made Germany relatively successful in managing the coronavirus crisis? ~health Article 2455 words 4 votes
The country’s most important climate election is happening in Texas ~enviro climate change energy Article 1817 words, published Aug 19 2020 8 votes
In the jungle: Inside the long, hidden genealogy of ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’ ~music Article 11 102 words, published May 14 2000 6 votes
Doesn’t feel like a recession? You should be paying more in taxes ~finance economics Article 1247 words, published Sep 3 2020 12 votes
The pandemic has put the future on fast-forward, with one notable exception: The drive-in cinema ~movies Article 608 words, published Sep 7 2020 12 votes
The Bully's Pulpit - On the elementary structure of domination ~life education Article 4807 words, published Jul 3 2015 3 votes
Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans ~health Article 2333 words 30 votes
My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda ~life family Article 9051 words 5 votes
California El Dorado wildfire sparked by device to reveal baby's gender ~enviro Article 591 words 14 votes
Does Google know me better than I know myself? ~tech google privacy internet Article 1026 words 5 votes
Amazon deletes 20,000 product reviews written by seven of its top ten UK reviewers after a Financial Times investigation found they were written for profit ~tech amazon Article 1119 words 18 votes
Academics are really, really worried about their freedom ~humanities education linguistics Article 476 words 27 votes
Uber is hurting drivers like me in its legal fight in California ~transport Article 1089 words 3 votes
Goodbye to the ‘Pret economy’ and good luck to whatever replaces it ~finance Article 791 words 11 votes
Intimidation, surveillance and conspiracy theories: Inside the Financial Times' five-year investigation of the billion-dollar Wirecard fraud ~finance Article 4800 words 5 votes
India bans PUBG, Baidu, WeChat, Alipay, and 114 Chinese apps in the third ban wave ~tech Article 382 words 20 votes
The next front in the India-China conflict could be a canal across southern Thailand’s Kra Isthmus ~news india china thailand Article 1289 words 8 votes
Apple adds cycling routes and EV charging stations to Maps in iOS 14 ~transport Article 409 words 11 votes
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem ~tech privacy social media Article 28 088 words 18 votes
Amazon moves closer to drone delivery with US Federal Aviation Administration approval ~transport Article 375 words 4 votes
Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction ~science chemistry physics.quantum Article 337 words 11 votes
Can child dolls keep pedophiles from offending? One man thinks so, and he’s been manufacturing them for clients for more than ten years. ~life Article 562 words, published Jan 11 2016 24 votes
Multiple US court rulings have found Amazon responsible for defects in products sold by third-party merchants ~finance business Article 2117 words 6 votes
California Governor Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres. ~enviro Article 1509 words, published Aug 24 2020 7 votes
National Hurricane Center nailed track forecast for Laura within a mile and three days in advance ~enviro Article 858 words 9 votes
The value of extended families ~life family.nuclear parenting Article 9480 words, published Mar 28 2020 6 votes
How a strange face in a random 19th-century newspaper ad became a portal to a forgotten moment in ASCII art history ~tech Article published May 23 2016 6 votes