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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.…

In an era of inescapable and unreliable news coverage, across platforms from social media to television and radio, it is difficult to avoid a sense of information overload. Consider my favorite analogy: You're driving down a freeway without any mirrors. You can only see the road ahead, but with so…

But there are 72 million Americans over 60 years old in the United States. If only a fraction of them get the virus and the mortality rate still turns out to be lower than the 1-5 percent that South Korea is seeing among this age group, we’re still looking at…

Caleb Cain was horrified when he saw a part of himself in the gunman who unleashed terror on Christchurch last year. The 27-year-old American, based in West Virginia, had spent years diving deeper into alt-right rabbit holes on YouTube, where he absorbed narratives which made claims about the superior IQs…

Note of reflection (March 5, 2020) This model was conceived in 2010, now more than 10 years ago, and not very long after Git itself came into being. In those 10 years, git-flow (the branching model laid out in this article) has become hugely popular in many a software team…

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Top ReviewsThere was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2018Format: HardcoverVerified PurchaseA book I could not put down. I read it in two days and marked up with jotted notes and underlines. Jaron Lanier has done society a great…