To Head Off Regulators, Google Makes Certain Words Taboo (The Markup)
The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating “very real legal risks” in using words like “market” and “networkeffects”
Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google (The Markup)
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page.
At 12, He Had a Viral Science Video. At 14, He Fears He Was Too Rude. (The New York Times)
Marco Zozaya critiqued those linking vaccines and autism, but he struggles like many science communicators with social media platforms that may favor a style that inflames.
Google's featured snippets are worse than fake news (The Outline)
The highlighted answers given prime placement over search results are often shockingly bad.
Comcast Confessions (The Verge)
An investigative series about why Comcast is unpopular based on interviews with more than 100 current and former employees.
Overnight at Occupy Wall Street (The New York Observer)
By the tenth night of the Occupy Wall Street protest, the miniature colony at Liberty Park Plaza was rather sophisticated.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Take a Hard Line on the Internet at Rally of 40,000 Men (And Me) (The New York Observer)
I snuck into an anti-internet rally at Citi Field.