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In Race Against Fake News, Google and Facebook Stroll to the Starting Line
Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 25.1.2017
Language | German
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, fake news, Google, politics, threat
Summary | Google and Facebook are beginning to respond to the wide criticism that they do nothing to combat fake news on their platforms. Critics blame the uncontested spread of fake news for the voting of Donald Trump. Facebook and Google are now trying to block new providers on their platforms that spread misleading content but critics doubt that these measures are very effective.
Image Description | Getty image of a Google cafeteria.
Image Tags | Google, male(s), smartphone
Letter of Recommendation: Instagram Explore
Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 5.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Instagram, social media
Summary | As consumers of the internet, we are used to being subjected to algorithms calculating what we might be interested in and feeding it back to us. The algorithm on the Instagram Explore page is however is very difficult to decipher because it suggests things that seem unlikely but somehow it still works: users are often surprised by how they like something that they never would have expected. The Instagram world nurtures a society of narcissists and excentrics who are apt at expressing themselves. For the first time, one persons guilty pleasure or secret hobby can be put online and receive a global applause in form of emojis and messages in various languages.
Image Description | Collage of artsy trompe l'oeil eye makeup by Instagrammer Gulianna Maria Bosco.
Image Tags | female(s)
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