#journalism
# tech
Trolls and bots are taking over social media by the millions. But we're not powerless. We can fight back with just a few easy steps.
# tech
Social media didn't change us for the worse, it merely enabled us to be as bad as we wanted to be and our lack of impulse control would allow.
# tech
If you thought fake news were bad, welcome to the hell that is fake fact checking.
# tech
Technology didn't build the post-truth world. We did. And we're the only ones capable of returning to reality.
# science
While pervasive, deceptive fake news seems to be a new phenomenon for the public, the science world has been trying to battle their version of it for years.
# oddities
The Daily Mail, an infamously fact-averse tabloid, decided to fire a preemptive shot against Snopes by smearing its founders and screaming bias.
# tech
Facebook can't fix its fake news problem because the damage is already done and mitigating it means jeopardizing its primary draw for users.
# science
Skeptico might sound like a skeptical blog, but as demonstrated by its approach to a profile of Dr. Eben Alexander, it's anything but.
# tech
Nancy Jo Sales tackles Tinder and modern dating. Or rather she filled in some stereotypes and bad science into an article she was planning to write all along.
# tech
Sometimes, when all you can get for your writing is exposure, the market is trying to tell you something you'd be foolish to ignore.
# tech
Newspapers are still on the warpath against bloggers and it's not working out for them.
# sex
Blaming porn for societal problems isn't exclusive to religious zealots.
# science
NYT's Virginia Heffernan seems shocked and appalled that popular science blogs aren't dry, purely academic exercises in summarizing scientific papers.
# politics
Skeptical bloggers are debating whether to out a troll whose fabrications fueled Chris Mooney's anti-atheist stories.
# politics
Turns out that one of the stories Chris Mooney used to build his case against angry atheists ruining science education for everyone was created out of thin air by a fabulist.
