#social media
# health
Mommy blogs are filled with so much disinformation and scaremongering, they should be officially labeled an infectious disease vector.
# oddities
We figured out the recipe for conspiracy theorists. And, unwittingly, so has social media...
# tech
The idea that just giving people more data to make the right choices flies in the face of how humans typically work.
# politics
An analysis of partisan echo chambers on social media shows that the far left and the far right have unique approaches to propaganda.
# tech
The start of a new experiment for a new era of blogging.
# tech
Of all the terrible ideas conceived in the social media age, a Yelp for people has to be, by far, one of the absolute worst and poorly thought out.
# tech
Reddit's reputation as the internet's sewer is both unfair and ignores the simple fact that when you interact with millions of people, some of them will be awful human beings.
# tech
Internet writer Adrian Chen decided to investigate professional trolls working for the Russian government and they played him like a fiddle.
# tech
Web 2.0 was all about sharing and networking. Web 3.0 is emphasizing securing your data from all the people with whom you shared and networked.
# tech
The internet may have broadened our horizons, but it hasn't changed how we think about sex. With maybe one exception...
# tech
Panic about social media ruining kids' minds is just another in a long line of panics created by older generations intimidated by new technology.
# space
A viral social media post claims that life on Earth is far more fragile than it actually is.
# tech
Recruiters and employers are now snooping through candidates' social media because they can. That open them to potential liability and have far-reaching affects across social platforms.
# tech
MIT's experiment in capturing how the web views you shows the limitations of parsing through massive, unstructured, loosely related data sets.