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Unknown in America, disliked in the UK: Nick Clegg is right for Facebook
Nick Clegg’s appointment as Facebook’s new vice president of global affairs and communications raised eyebrows on both sides of the Atlantic—Brits’ in withering bemusement, Americans’ in “who he?” ignorance. In Brussels, Berlin, and Paris, however, the hire will have made perfect sense. Clegg has become a punchline in the UK; his spell as a centrist,...
Entertainment journalists scour fan theories for truth
Peter Dinklage recently reignited a Game of Thrones fan theory with just four words during acceptance speech at the 2018 Emmys in September. It’s a crock theory, and really only a handful of social media users jumped on his unintentional phrasing, but for several entertainment news websites hungry for any sort of Game of Thrones-related...
Indiana: Black women, the ‘pink wave,’ and harbingers of our political future
Ahead of the November 6 elections, CJR invited writers to spotlight stories that deserve closer scrutiny, in their states and beyond, before voters cast their ballots. Read more dispatches from “States of the Union” here. Indiana has solidly supported Republican nominees for president since 1980, with Barack Obama the lone exception, in 2008. Conservative voters and...
To teach people about climate change, feed them journalism
There’s a story behind every ingredient that goes into our meals—each plant or animal we consume carries the weight of the place where it was raised, the way it was cultivated, the history of its breeding. And as climate change alters the very nature of our planetary ecology—threatening certain staples and delicacies and modifying how...
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FB recruiting @nick_clegg as Head of Global Affairs and Communication "will be as much of a surprise to the British political establishment as it will be to Silicon Valley, where few European politicians enjoy a high profile in the insular tech industry." https://t.co/Y6SuajcoU4
— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) October 19, 2018The US government continues its crackdown on leakers to media.
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The FBI has arrested Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards for giving a news reporter copies of US Treasury “suspicious activity reports” about Trump’s inner circle and Russians.Advertisers allege Facebook failed to disclose key metric error for more than a year and claim scale of the miscalculation was far worse than understood. https://t.co/lq9CSqvh43 via @WSJ
— VranicaWSJ (@VranicaWSJ) October 16, 2018Facebook is banning misinformation on voting in the U.S. midterms
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https://t.co/0OgI5mjEjm"The Saudis are preparing a report that will conclude Jamal Khashoggi's death was the result of an interrogation that went wrong, one that was intended to lead to his abduction from Turkey, according to two sources." https://t.co/ohkvYMWr60
— Society of Professional Journalists (@spj_tweets) October 15, 2018
