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Could say more normal, more traditional. thats fine. but the hype machine is not going to work with a politician like joe biden and rather than doing comparisons, trump versus biden on style, it should be as i mentioned in my previous answer on substance and results. howie: the next day the new york times had a headline praising biden for his stubborn optimism and the washington post praised him for his strategy of pessimism. that clears that up, clarence. i dont know. it didnt seem to matter th...

It’s been nearly six months since the attack on the U.S. Capitol and tonight Anthony Everett asks, are the divisions between Republicans and Democrats as stark...

Credit: (Courtesy of Paul Goldenberg; Linda Langston; Eagleton Institute of Politics) Paul Goldenberg, left, Linda Langston and John Farmer As if the challenge of safeguarding public health and our citizens’ security during a global pandemic were not enough for local government officials and law enforcement, they also face another form of contagion of perhaps greater long-term concern: a pandemic of viral mis- and disinformation that challenges the stability of government and the public’s t...

It’s a good year for old, crappy phones. The dusty old phone in your desk drawer running Android frozen-dessert-something-or-other — the one that might have a cracked screen — saw its stock go up recently with two generous trade-in promotions. T-Mobile and Verizon are both offering to take your old, damaged phone off your hands and replace it with a shiny new 5G model. There are a couple of reasons for this generosity. Verizon, in particular, has written some big checks to pay for new C-b...

Human brains rely on shortcuts to be efficient. But these shortcuts leave us vulnerable to false information.

Credit MIT Sinan Aral has spent two decades studying how social media impacts our lives, from how we think about politics to how we find a romantic partner. He argues that were now at the crossroads of a decade of techno-utopianism followed by a decade of techno-dystopianism. How to reconcile the promise and peril of social media is one of the biggest questions facing democracy today. Aral is the David Austin Professor of Management, Marketing, IT, and Data Science at MIT; director of the MIT ...

ATLANTA (CNN) — Over the last year, the World Wide Web has started to look less worldwide. Europe is floating regulation that could impose temporary bans on U.S. tech companies that violate its laws. The United States was on the verge of banning TikTok and WeChat, though the new Biden administration is rethinking that move. India, which did ban those two apps as well of dozens of others, is now at loggerheads with Twitter. And this month, Facebook clashed with the Australian government over a...

  Nice visualization (based on a study by the Brunswick Group) looking at the sources of information were investors rely upon, and how that has changed over the past 20 years. There were two especially noteworthy changes: More investors were relying on professional advice in 2019 versus 2001 — 57% vs 49%. I suspect those numbers really changed in the 2010s post-GFC, as retail found it difficult to sidestep the crash and even more challenging to get back into equities. The biggest change is t...

Online mobs are likely to remain a dangerous reality By The Washington Post By Drew Harwell When the stock market opened one morning last month, Jake was working a job he hated inside a cavernous Amazon fulfillment center, trying desperately to spend some of the $1,452.45 in his checking account on shares of a failing chain of video game stores. At home alone in Des Moines, he had immersed himself in the euphoria of WallStreetBets, the raucous Reddit forum where followers were cheering one ano...

Commentary: Llewellyn King - Social media and the mob factor Llewellyn King FacebookTwitterEmail Social media has an unimagined, unequaled, uncontrollable, and unpredictable ability to mobilize groups of people for antisocial action; to take a sliver of society and turn it into a mob. Last month this new force in society was on display, from mobilizing anti-vaxxers in Los Angeles to the U.S. Capitol riot, resulting in five deaths, to the run-up of a weak stock, GameStop, by 1,800%. These events...