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The Peaceful Transition of Government Twitter Accounts
The various committees of the House of Representatives are strange, human institutions. They are staffed by whoever holds the majority, which, since January of 2011, had been the Republicans, but is now the Democrats. And with that change, the committees must deal with important business, such as establishing new chairpeople, deciding on organizing principles, and … handling the committee Twitter account. A look at what happened to the @HouseScience account.
Opinion: The Divide Between Silicon Valley and Washington Is a National-Security Threat (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 12/13/2018 - 14:16Just How Much of the World Is Urban? (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 12/11/2018 - 10:53Democratic candidates and their affiliates spent more than three times as much money as Republicans on facebook ads (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/05/2018 - 12:11We Tested Facebook’s Ad Screeners and Some Were Too Strict (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/05/2018 - 06:30The Dilemma of Anti-Semitic Speech Online
In some corners of the internet, the tired hypothetical of free speech has been turned on its head: There isn’t one person yelling “fire” in a crowded theater, but a theater full of people yelling “Burn it down.” All of which complicates the situation for the big internet companies. Over the past 10 years, free speech has undergone a radical change in practice. Now nearly all significant speech runs through a corporate platform, be it a large hosting provider, WordPress, Facebook, or Twitter. Speech may be free by law, but attention is part of an economy.
The Pittsburgh Suspect’s Internet of Hate (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 10/29/2018 - 14:44News for Democracy Quietly Spending Millions on Facebook Political Ads (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/18/2018 - 06:19Sen Mark Warner (D-VA) Is Coming for Tech's Too-Powerful
A Q&A with Sen Mark Warner (D-VA).