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Solving rural poverty will take more than odd jobs from smartphone apps (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 06/05/2018 - 14:22Why did AT&T pay the same company used to funnel hush money to Stormy Daniels?
Essential Consultants, a shell company owned by Michael Cohen, has no other known employees or directors. It was incorporated in Delaware on October 17, 2016, 10 days after the Access Hollywood tape went public and a couple weeks before the 2016 election. If AT&T paid a monthly fee of $50,000, Essential Consultants would have received more money in the year than AT&T’s highest-paid lobbying firms, Mayer Brown and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer, and Feld, which were paid $420,000 and $400,000 respectively.
Facebook's Ideological Imperialism (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/02/2018 - 14:40My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/26/2018 - 12:00Op-ed: Data misuse is a feature, not a bug—and it’s plaguing our entire culture (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/23/2018 - 14:26Op-ed: All Followers Are Fake Followers (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 14:56The Libraries Bringing Small-Town News Back to Life (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 10:505 Questions About Facebook's Plan to Rate Media by 'Trustworthiness' (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 01/21/2018 - 16:17Where Were Netflix and Google in the Net-Neutrality Fight?
The most recent chapter in the debate over net neutrality has been, like previous chapters, cacophonous. One notable difference this time around, though, was the relative quiet of many large tech companies. In previous years, these firms had been outspoken about the issue. What changed? Netflix’s net-neutrality journey is an illuminating example. The reality is that Netflix and other large tech companies, such as Facebook and Google, have grown so dominant that net neutrality has become a nonissue for them.