…federal charges for this mission on behalf of what came to be known as “fake news.” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has emerged with a seven-point plan to tame “fake news”…

…readers to easily connect insights to individual documents, a situation exacerbated by a degree of inconsistency and repetition within the archive itself.[4] In other words, news values dominated entirely over…

…production of news and, in the process, gaining influence over how traditional news stories and genres are constructed and circulated” (Russell, 2016: 7). This process was also helped by the…

…up as an analytical source by news organizations can signal against its reliability as a primary source to other mainstream journalistic news organizations and simultaneously signal its attractiveness to conspiracy…

…but because it was cop stuff, it was ruggedized, with black and yellow rubber bumpers, because apparently being a cop makes you a klutz. I snuck a look at the…

…feature of online infrastructure, suggesting books, movies, music, and news to users. They draw correspondences between users and items by comparing user ratings, producing recommendations with the familiar form: “Users…

…Lessons from Hong Kong.” It concluded with these words: “The studies on the ecology of influenza led in Hong Kong in the 1970s, in which Hong Kong acted as a…

…“engineers.” But no other word can take its place. They might experiment with words like “artist” or “designer in the Horst Rittel way,” but neither stabilizes and both are prone…

U.S. intelligence officers discuss Chinese espionage in dramatically different terms than they use in talking about the Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election of 2016. Admiral Michael Rogers, head…

…systems that run our lives.” This skill is obviously shared by hackers (for example, in their “craftiness” to break through various systems), yet the difference among software developers like Noah…

…gendered gathering alternately entreated, demanded, and shouted at councilors to make the water reappear, as it should, for the “public” [using the English word]. They made claims to water based…

…it to a problem that concerns us all: how to house the millions of refugees we see on the news. The IKEA refugee shelter, the story goes, can be assembled…

…an outbreak of Ebola in Kikwit, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo). Major magazines, including Newsweek, Time, and The Economist, published cover stories on the “Killer Virus”; network news programs…

…leak—“Lonesome” Rhodes unwittingly insulting his public in A Face in the Crowd on a hot mic, or newspapers breaking the mistress story in Citizen Kane—but Podesta-size, Cablegate-size leaks (hundreds of…

…Russian intelligence—is: would the hackers and the Russian government have responded in the way that they have? By systematically leaking documents and slowly dripping information? I don’t know. Maybe they…

It was the first time the disease appeared in Sierra Leone. It began to make the news in June. Dozens of British newspapers covered the story over the summer. The…

…disinfect one’s hands. Figure 1. Pool of the Palm Camayenne, Conakry. The exception to the rule is the Palm Camayenne hotel, located on Conakry’s corniche (Figures 1, 2). Here, there…

…earth. Campbell’s Soups advertisement, The Ladies’ Home Journal, June, 1923. 1810: Service à la russe enchants Parisians with the formality of courses served in continuous succession. Credited to the Russian…

…leave his or her seat in front of the machine.) To discipline herself—and she used the English word discipline—Winnie has opened an account with another bank into which she makes…

…are asked to think forward into the future, to evaluate their lives in the round, to rank their anxiety against their contentment. Seen from another angle, however, simplicity is a…

…and Smith were the first scientists to describe unexpected plastic debris concentration in western Atlantic.[2] However, for more than two decades, this news rarely entered mainstream media. It was only…

…The answer came in 2014 when other hacktivists executed exceptionally visible and high-impact public interest hacks. In Peru, the government nearly dissolved after a two-person Anonymous hacktivist crew, Lulzsec Peru,…

…news. News commentary surrounding Flint in fact dwells on how racial animus directed against residents of this “majority minority” city might have driven the neglect and disregard that ushered in…

…they can live through, and live with. For instance, in the middle of the 2013 European horse meat scandal, Thomas Landrain, a major figure of the DIYbio network, posted on…

In 2013, MOS@N, an experimental mobile health (mHealth) network providing medical monitoring and follow-up of pregnant women, was launched in the health district of Nouna in rural Burkina Faso. MOS@N…

At long last, doomsday has arrived. Ebola’s Atlantic passage may have mixed genres of tragedy and farce—real human suffering and cable news—but finally a sense of urgency matches years of…