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...
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
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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...
An in-depth look at Facebook's role in eroding the informational underpinnings of democracy during the 2016 election, and why it was so hard to see it coming
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A history of the quest to solve checkers, headlined by a 1994 matchup between a computer program and the best checkers player ever, Marion Tinsley
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic :
A history of the quest to solve checkers, headlined by a 1994 matchup between a computer program and the best checkers player ever, Marion Tinsley
Marion Tinsley—math professor, minister, and the best checkers player in the world—sat across a game board from a computer, dying. Tweets: @alexismadrigal and @mkonnikova Tweets: Alexis C. Madrigal / ...