Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton
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Is the Tech Press Bad? With The Verge's Casey Newton
Thanks to its success in attracting and holding an audience, and despite the controversies surrounding the content it dishes out, Facebook's algorithmic News Feed quickly became the template for other social media platforms and then for traditional media companies as they shifted their offerings online. Everyone rushed into the business of informat
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In 2011, Google acquired a small company called Apture, along with it its CEO, a man named Tristan Harris. He ended up working on the team that designed Gmail’s inbox app and realized what he would later publicly say: “Never before in history have the decisions of a handful of designers (mostly men, white, living in SF, aged 25–35) working at 3 com
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