A look at Covid Tracking Project, a website run mostly by volunteers, which has become one of the most trusted sources on the spread of COVID-19 in the US
At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she'd taken time off to help settle her affairs. Tweets: @alexismadrigal , @armstrongdr...
[Thread] Democratic campaign tech projects suffer from one-off startup-like funding with no money for further development, lack of trust between campaigns, more
complicating processes that would otherwise manage just fine 👇 https://twitter.com/... Christina Holland / @americanwombat : This is a really detailed account of specific companies and people and deci...
Twitter is funding bluesky, an independent effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media, with the goal of Twitter being a client of it
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey outlines … Shoshana Wodinsky / Adweek : Twitter Will Fund the Development of a Decentralized Social Media Standard Rob Price / Business Insider : Twitter is trying to build a n...
Crowdtangle data: a small number of Facebook Pages created 46% of the top 10,000 posts for or against vaccines, with 20% generated by seven anti-vax Pages
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic :
Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announce they are divorcing after 25 years of marriage; MacKenzie worked at Amazon from the beginning
How Podcasts Are Filling a Real Need Kif Leswing / Business Insider : Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announce they are divorcing Levi Pulkkinen / The Guardian : MacKenzie Bezos: divorc...
A look at ChuChu TV, the Chennai-based kids entertainment empire on YouTube that has 19B+ views, 29M aggregate subscribers, and adds ~40K subscribers daily
as a reader and a parent—that @alexismadrigal wrote this feature thinking through kids and screens, the globalizing of entertainment, and so much more. Read it in our new issue or right here in pixels...
A look at ChuChu TV, the Chennai-based kids entertainment empire on YouTube that has 19B+ views, 29M aggregate subscribers, and adds ~40K subscribers daily
chuchu tv, the company responsible for some of the most widely viewed toddler content on YouTube, has a suitably cute origin story. Tweets: @andersen , @gmisrag , @kris_sg , @alexismadrigal , @polemit...
Mobs in India may have received inflammatory messages on WhatsApp, but the mob violence came from long-standing cultural divisions and governmental failures
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic : Tweets: @anxiaostudio and @theatlantic Tweets: An Xiao Mina / @anxiaostudio : “It could be that centering the technology in these cases obscures more important sol...
Facebook exec says company will build an API for machine-readable access to info on ads in political-ad archive, but researchers worry that may not be enough
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic : Tweets: @facebook , @juliaangwin , @yayitsrob , and @profcarroll Tweets: @facebook : Thanks @JuliaAngwin. You've done a lot to uncover issues in our ads systems, w...
As US lawmakers on both sides of the aisle call for Mark Zuckerberg to testify, he and Sheryl Sandberg remain publicly silent on the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Plus, four other questions … Jonathon Gatehouse / CBC News : Facebook CEO Zuckerberg conspicuously absent as data scandal grows Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic : Where Is Mark Zuckerberg? ResearchBu...