Media Bits and Bytes – The Big Hack Edition
- The Cambridge Analytica Files – Carole Cadwalladr (The Guardian)
- The Future of Time Warner, Coming Soon to a Court Near You – John Koblin (New York Times)
- To Find Suspects, Police Quietly Turn To Google – Tyler Dukes (WRAL)
- How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America’s Nightmare – Shira Ovide (Bloomberg)
- The Reckoning Over Social Media Has Transformed SXSW – Casey Newton (The Verge)
- Teen Shooting Survivors Leverage Huge Social Media Followings for Gun Control – Ali Breland (The Hill)
By Carole Cadwalladr
March 18, 2018
The Guardian
Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate.
The Future of Time Warner, Coming Soon to a Court Near You
By John Koblin
March 17, 2018
New York Times
The trial over the proposed merger between AT&T and Time Warner is set to start in United States District Court.
To Find Suspects, Police Quietly Turn To Google
By Tyler Dukes
March 15, 2018
WRAL
In at least four investigations last, Raleigh police used search warrants to demand Google accounts not of specific suspects, but from any mobile devices that veered too close to the scene of a crime.
How Amazon’s Bottomless Appetite Became Corporate America’s Nightmare
By Shira Ovide
March 14, 2018
Bloomberg
To be Amazoned means to have your business crushed because the company got into your industry. And fear of being Amazoned has become such a defining feature of commerce, it’s easy to forget the phenomenon has arisen mostly in about three years.
The Reckoning Over Social Media Has Transformed SXSW
By Casey Newton
March 14, 2018
The Verge
Academics, business leaders, and Facebook executives weighed in on how social platforms spread misinformation, encourage polarization, and promote hate speech. It wasn’t the first time SXSW has examined the darker side of social media, but it felt like the most sustained reflection on the subject to date.
Teen Shooting Survivors Leverage Huge Social Media Followings for Gun Control
By Ali Breland
March 3, 2018
The Hill
The teenagers have built their followings in part by being able to engage in the kind of combative, often humorous tweets that get social media attention. Their curt responses to conservative media personalities have earned tens of thousands of retweets.