Extremist Ideas, App Automation, Trump's Power, Fake News, Future of Advertising - Five Things - Issue #219

When confronted with white supremacists, newspaper editors should consider ‘strategic silence’.

The programmer is responsible for the automation tools used by Macs and, by proxy, by mobile apps.

Nobody is scared of getting their ass kicked by Donald Trump. But that doesn't mean he can't exhaust them into submission.

Technological advances have made it easy to spread fake news. But after these fabrications become familiar, their danger is likely to recede, the economist Austan Goolsbee says.

We just need better advertising...

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