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(Inside Science) — The picture at the top of this story is not a blurry image of two colliding galaxies or a splitting cell viewed through a microscope. It is a snapshot of today’s divided America.On the left is a blob representing Twitter’s liberal echo chamber, and on the right,…

(Inside Science) — The picture at the top of this story is not a blurry image of two colliding galaxies or a splitting cell viewed through a microscope. It is a snapshot of today’s divided America.On the left is a blob representing Twitter’s liberal echo chamber, and on the right,…

(Inside Science) — The picture at the top of this story is not a blurry image of two colliding galaxies or a splitting cell viewed through a microscope. It is a snapshot of today’s divided America.On the left is a blob representing Twitter’s liberal echo chamber, and on the right,…

(Inside Science) — The picture at the top of this story is not a blurry image of two colliding galaxies or a splitting cell viewed through a microscope. It is a snapshot of today’s divided America.On the left is a blob representing Twitter’s liberal echo chamber, and on the right,…

The day before Justin Trudeau announced his economic rescue, Gerald Butts, the prime minister’s former principal secretary, advised his more than 74,000 Twitter followers that if they were looking for insight on the “economic fallout” from COVID-19, they should follow Jason Furman, a Harvard economist who served in Barack Obama’s…

We talk a lot about storytelling in branding. And one term that’s at the heart of this is ‘brand story’. For me, a brand story is a narrative that explains the core of a brand. Crucially, it’s much more than just a back-story; it connects the dots between the back-story,…

As we enter the first full week of reporting on a nation operating under national emergency rules in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ethical challenges are mounting. Here are the questions I’ve heard via Twitter and from the clients who keep Poynter’s Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership…

Pop-up adverts are the work of Satan. But you can stop them from appearing on your Android phone – all it takes is a few simple tweaks… Pop-ups are just awful. Everybody hates them. But they’re often unavoidable when you’re browsing online. But what if I told you that you…

It is too easy to think of technology as a window when it is really a lens that can distort our perception of the world around us. Depending on the kind of lens created both through our own online interactions and the various algorithms deciding what to serve up to…

As if there was any doubt, thanks to technology we know for certain that everybody is focused on the spreading coronavirus outbreak. We can tell that everybody is writing about coronavirus with MuckRack Trends, which reports a whopping 1.6 million articles about the virus since the beginning of the year.…