2025-02-08
Are the Effects of Contagious Media Slant Driven by Supply or Demand?
A relevant question is whether the effects of contagious slant are driven by supply or demand – that is, a direct influence on news producers, or else theirs response to...
Researching Media Slant: Language Features and Topics
In Table C.14, re-run our main specification, but instead of bigram-based similarity with FNC, we regress vocabulary size (normalized by the total size of the corpus, column 1), average word...
Let's Take a Look at Fox News Channel's Viewership
In our quest to study media slant, let's take a look at Fox News Channel's viewership.
Senior Director at Meta, Salesforce - Big Tech Career Growth Case Study
Listen now (86 mins) | She’s led product teams in big tech. How did she land those roles, excel, and what can you learn to do the same? She’s going...
Cable News' Effects on Newspaper Content: A Deeper Insight
Taking a deeper look at Cable news's effect on newspaper content.
Email newsletters in the app almost working.
Email newsletters in the app almost working.
Media Slant Research: Newspaper-County Observations
Here, we replicate the baseline estimates but only consider newspaper-county observations where the county coincides with where the immediate owner of the newspaper is based.
Partnerships for Product Managers - follow up story
Using a partnership playbook
Media Slant: The Relationship Between the FNC Channel Position and Local Newspaper Content
Figure C.4 visualizes the reduced form relationship between the FNC channel position and local newspaper content similarity to FNC.
2025-02-07
Researching Media Slant: A Peek At Our OLS Results
Table C.4 shows OLS results for regressions of predicted Fox News similarity newspaper Slant on TV viewership.
Extinction Burst Explains MAGA Voters’ Racist Anger
This fantastic two-minute video, from a guy named Rich, neatly explains why the anger and frustration of Trump’s supporters has been growing over time — why the pushback on things...
★ My 2024 Apple Report Card
While there are several areas where Apple maintained consistent excellence in 2024, I can’t think of a single area where Apple levelled up. Not one. That feels like a problem.
Elon Musk's DOGE Training an AI to Analyze Government Spending
Billionaire Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is ripping through the federal government's agencies at a breakneck pace, to the horror of former government officials, who have been...
According to Wired’s reporting, a US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis has called...
According to Wired’s reporting, a US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis has called the incursion by “DOGE” staff “the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has...
HackerNoon vs Bitcoin - The Ultimate Showdown You Didn't Ask For
I explore with simplistic mathematical models to help me, how HackerNoon stacks up against Bitcoin, the most successful publishing machine on earth. Bitcoin publishes blocks though, not articles. Nobody reads...
Virtually Everybody Who's Ever Bought Trump's Meme Coin Has Lost Money On It
In the short history of crypto cons and scams, it's fair to say none have gained the notoriety of Donald Trump's spectacularly shady TRUMP coin. Soon after Trump launched his...
Reliable Protection of User Data: Hashing and Obfuscation
In the digital era, the volume of user data being processed is growing at a geometric rate. One effective approach to protecting this data is **hashing** (for passwords and certain...
One of Elon Musk's DOGE Boys Was Fired by Previous Job for Leaking Company Secrets
A barely legal member of billionaire Elon Musk's bizarre DOGE boys club was previously fired from an internship after being accused of leaking sensitive data with a competitor. 19-year-old high...
Elon Musk Asks If He Can Re-Hire His Incredibly Racist DOGE Boy
Sorely Missed Just the other day, a young Department of Government Efficiency staffer resigned after his incredibly racist tirades on social media came to light. Now, Elon Musk is already...
Doechii’s Tiny Desk Concert
Hi, friends. It’s Friday and I don’t know about you, but I think we need to unwind a little bit with this Tiny Desk Concert from Doechii. Aaron posted this...
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