A Recap of Nate Silver’s Live Chat on Facebook
On Thursday, FiveThirtyEight hosted its first chat on Facebook with our editor in chief, Nate Silver. We’ve pulled in some of the most interesting questions below (content has been lightly edited for...
View ArticleAnother (Much Higher) Count Of Homicides By Police
Last week, we wrote about the fact that the U.S. government doesn’t track how many people are killed by the police. The FBI tracks “justifiable” police homicides, which it reports to be about 400 per...
View ArticleChat With Nate Silver And Harry Enten About The Midterm Elections
The election is eight days away, and early voting has begun in states across the country. FiveThirtyEight’s latest Senate forecast gives Republicans a 63 percent chance of winning the Senate, and that...
View ArticleYou Asked About The Midterm Elections. We Answered.
On Tuesday, FiveThirtyEight hosted its second chat on Facebook, with our editor in chief, Nate Silver, and senior political writer Harry Enten. Nate and Harry discussed the 2014 midterm elections,...
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Federer, Djokovic Set To Play For First Time In A Tennis Hotbed: India
The top two men’s tennis players in the world are competing this weekend in India for the first time. What they’ll find there is one of their sport’s biggest fan bases. Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer...
View ArticleThe Biggest Stories Of 2014? Now, Wait Just A Minute
End-of-year rankings of news stories are silly. They’re arbitrary. They’re soon forgotten. Many of them also are premature. The year had 22 days left when Facebook unveiled its 2014 recap. Twitter...
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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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