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This Algorithm Knows You Better Than Your Facebook Friends Do
Plenty of us saw the 2013 movie “Her” and wondered whether something like the customized personal assistant voiced by Scarlett Johansson could ever be possible. And then plenty of us moved on, never...
View ArticleAsk Nate Silver About The Super Bowl, Or 2016, Or Anything Else
Well, we’ve finally persuaded our editor in chief, Nate Silver, to officially join Facebook (you can follow him here), and there will be no easing him in. We’re throwing him to the wolves Wednesday,...
View ArticleWe’re Hosting A Facebook Chat On The Economy
We’re expanding our Facebook chats. Nate Silver can’t always be in the hot seat, and we also want to zero in on specific fields of interest. First up? The economy. FiveThirtyEight’s chief economics...
View ArticleNate Silver Talks With Sheryl Sandberg
I interviewed Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg on Tuesday about her new campaign #LeanInTogether, which emphasizes men’s role in improving gender equality. We also spoke about a range...
View ArticlePodcast: Your Cloud Self vs. You
“Your data is like your pet. You may own it, but it also has a life of its own.” By Jody Avirgan More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS On this week’s What’s The Point, a conversation with longtime...
View ArticleEveryone’s Still Chasing The Yankees And Red Sox On Facebook And Twitter
The Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets on Twitter as well as in the World Series. The Royals had about 479,000 followers on Twitter as of this morning, 15,000 more than the Mets had — even...
View ArticleNot All Privacy Policies Are Created Equal
“Privacy policies actually tell you every way that [companies are] going to violate your privacy.” — Kashmir Hill By Jody Avirgan More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS | Embed Embed Code <iframe...
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The Trouble With Quitting Facebook Is That We Like Facebook
We have now come to bury Facebook, not to praise it. In the past few weeks, after the revelation that consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had obtained the data of more than 50 million Facebook users to...
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: What The Cambridge Analytica Story Is Really About
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View ArticleCongress Needs To Understand Facebook Before Dealing With It
I joined Facebook in the spring of 2005 with the first email address I ever had. I still remember the photo I chose: me in a silver cocktail dress I spent too much of my summer lifeguarding money on....
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Who’s Running The Best Campaign Ads?
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): On Tuesday, Joe Biden launched his campaign’s first...
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Fact-Checking Misinformation Can Work. But It Might Not Be Enough.
Last week, Twitter tried something new. When President Trump tweeted that “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent,” Twitter appended this...
View ArticleWhat Kicking Trump Off Twitter Can — And Can’t — Do
It was The Trump Show 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For years, Trump has used social media to set the agenda with every one of his thoughts, policies and lies. Then suddenly, just like that, The...
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Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ Upheld Its Trump Ban, But It’s Little More Than...
You may have already heard that on Wednesday Facebook’s oversight board upheld the site’s decision to suspend former President Donald Trump’s account, at least for the time being. That’s a noteworthy...
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How Trump’s Removal From Social Media Could Affect His Grasp On The GOP
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll(s) of the week Facebook said last month that it plans to suspend Donald Trump for at least the next two years, which, coupled with his...
View ArticlePolitics Podcast: The Politics Of The Debt Ceiling
FiveThirtyEight More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS Last week, the Senate voted to temporarily raise the debt ceiling through early December, but the political conflict over a longer-term increase...
View ArticleIs Government About To Regulate Facebook?
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses the debt ceiling’s role in politics, why the debt ceiling exists in the first place and the chances of it being abolished...
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Facebook’s Algorithm Is Broken. We Collected Some Suggestions On How To Fix It.
Facebook’s algorithm1 is its superpower — and its kryptonite. Yes, it leads to higher engagement that earns the company billions of dollars, but it’s also tied to some of the company’s biggest...
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There’s A Racial Bias on Police Facebook Pages
Police There's A Racial Bias on Police Facebook Pages By Maggie Koerth Mar. 13, 2023, at 6:00 AM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY SCHERER / GETTY IMAGES There was nothing overtly biased about the way the...
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