What does it mean to have “exerted a bad influence on online opinion”? It’s something I must surely have done, you’re not squeaky clean either. Neither is Toutiao one of China’s largest [ … ]

Recently an internal Facebook white paper was leaked: The company’s data scientists agree that Donald Trump’s campaign outperformed Hillary Clinton’s. Let’s reverse engineering ‘what happened’ and then perhaps transfer some relevant [ … ]

I’ve written a lot about Uber. I was early to start its post mortem, I didn’t want to wait til its body got cold. Also, I wanted to tap the [ … ]

Uber knows propaganda. Their narrative is that their valuation is justified by a powerful business model based on cutting-edge technological innovation; it has created a totally new product category (“ridesharing”) an [ … ]

Whoever you are, whatever you do for a living, you should cold call. What you are cold calling on behalf of may vary, some people sell cars, some sell real [ … ]

 This is a complex topic. It’s easy to get wrong or overstate certain pieces of the puzzle so I urge us away from the conveniently political, an unproductive course which resolves [ … ]

The quickest path, should you wish to gain moral authority over your foes, is to racialize all political difference Accusing one’s political opponents of racism is beyond the pale precisely because the legacy [ … ]

This is the ‘real real’ of a Twitter campaign. Not what a staffer insists because everyone else is doing it. Social media doesn’t want to see pictures of you standing [ … ]

Computational politics are the analytical tools used to profile at the individual level. It is asymmetrical warfare. ‘They’ have a machine gun and ‘you’ have nothing, not even the awareness [ … ]

This Myth vs. Fact document Democrats on the Banking Committee are distributing on their bank deregulation bill is a *masterpiece* of technocratic dishonesty. Let’s do some reverse engineering on this [ … ]