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According to U.S. intelligence reports, Vladimir Putin “ordered an influence campaign” to undermine Hillary Clinton and work with “a clear preference” to enhance Donald Trump’s prospects. PHOTOGRAPH B
April 21, 2016: Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the
In an extraordinary development Thursday, the Obama administration announced a series of sanctions against Russia . Thirty-five Russian nationals will be expelled from the country. President Obama iss
Opinion Commentary Twenty-five years after the Soviet Union ceased to exist, plenty of repressive regimes live on. Today, the free world no longer cares. By Garry Kasparov Updated Dec. 16, 2016 6:56 p
On Wednesday, reports appeared indicating that Vladmir Putin personally directed the Russian assault on U.S. elections. Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence
Op-Ed Contributor Charlie Sykes on Where the Right Went Wrong Credit... Niv Bavarsky MILWAUKEE — After nearly 25 years, I’m stepping down from my daily conservative talk radio show at the end of this
FOR much of post-Soviet history Russia was seen as an outlier whose politics would inevitably move towards those of the West. After the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump in America, it appe
By Jake Romm December 21, 2017 Time Magazine put Donald Trump on its cover last year. The Forward’s Jake Romm called the cover shot a covert act of political subversion. It became the most-read articl
Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty Images Nothing about the most dramatic campaign in memory was a foregone conclusion. The inside story of the pivotal choices that got us to President Trump. By GLENN THRUSH Glenn
The most mysterious technological object on the planet should have been destroyed at least three times. First, the device made it through a violent shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea. Then, it sat sub
William Mougayar Nov 21, 2016 Wow, that was a well written and detailed post by Jeff and John. I think what preceded this new wave of fake news is that we let content farms thrive for too long, and ac
Credit... Illustration by Pablo Delcan Feature Inside Facebook’s (Totally Insane, Unintentionally Gigantic, Hyperpartisan) Political-Media Machine How a strange new class of media outlet has arisen to
How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study By Credit... Eric Tucker, a 35-year-old co-founder of a marketing company in Austin, Tex., had just about 40 Twitter followers. But his recent tweet about paid p
Op-Ed Contributor The Age of Post-Truth Politics People demonstrated in London against Brexit in July. Credit... Andrew Testa for The New York Times See how this article appeared when it was originall
Watching the Election from The Post-Truth Future 6 min read · Nov 17, 2016 -- (This is the expanded version of a series of tweets I posted on Monday; they’re collected in a 88 Bar post here.) Weibo pu
We didn’t see this year coming, but we heard it from all sides. In Signal & Noise 2016 , you’ll find the way we made sense out of all of that sound. Is anyone surprised that Mark Zuckerberg doesn't fe
“I’m a Leninist,” Steve Bannon told a writer for The Daily Beast, in late 2013. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all o
Op-Ed Contributor Silicon Valley Helped Create Trump, and That’s Bad for It Credit... Matt Chase After the election of Donald J. Trump, technology companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google have been
Mediator Media’s Next Challenge: Overcoming the Threat of Fake News News media members in Las Vegas at the presidential debate between Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton. Several papers plan to cut j
One day in September 2014 the publisher of Gawker Media, Nick Denton, sent an e-mail to Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and billionaire. It could easily have been a message to a fri
Peter Thiel is so smart. I’m not being sarcastic. I’d venture to say that Thiel is a genius, even a prodigal visionary. Yet for some strange reason, the serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and Ga
Sixteen years ago I awaited the arrival of Election Day, anxious but hopeful. I was a part of a presidential campaign that had challenged the stereotype of Republicanism with a series of policy propos
ONDON — Nearly four months have passed since I joined a small group of aides in former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s cramped Downing Street office to review his resignation speech one final time
Slaven Vlasic / Getty Images for Advertising Week New York This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. After the news that AT&T had a deal to buy Time Warner for $85 billion , entrepreneur, sports owner and part-time…
DealBook Making Sense of AT&T’s Bid for Time Warner Randall Stephenson, chief executive of AT&T, and Jeffrey Bewkes, chief executive of Time Warner, defended their big merger on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” C
Carl Court / Getty Images On 29 November 2010, then US secretary of state Hillary Clinton stepped out in front of reporters to condemn the release of classified documents by WikiLeaks and five major n
ADVERTISEMENT SELECT A CHAPTER ▼ Thursday, October 20, 2016, 9:30 PM When deliberating over a presidential endorsement, the Daily News Editorial Board strives to identify the person who offers the greatest promise to brighten the futures of Americans and to safeguard the national security. Never…
WHEREVER I go these days, at home or abroad, people ask me the same question: what is happening in the American political system? How has a country that has benefited—perhaps more than any other—from
Y Combinator is extremely influential in tech startups and startup culture. Peter Thiel, an investor who often participates in Y Combinator, is donating $1.25 million to Donald Trump’s political effor
After nearly two years spent using a 5.5-inch iPhone, I’m accustomed to not having a compact phone anymore. The iPhone 6 Plus and 6s Plus have reshaped my iPhone experience for a simple reason: they g
NS Oct 9, 2016 In summary, a hard struggle is only a prerequisite but being right is a necessity. fredwilson Oct 9, 2016 i love the Bill Gurley framework. You can make money being right about somethin
Donald Trump lost the first Presidential debate not because of a lack of preparation. He lost because of his beliefs themselves. Photograph by Drew Angerer / Getty In a year of absurd, nerve-testing d
Op-Ed Contributors Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace The Colombian people celebrated a peace deal between the government and FARC rebels in Bogota, Colombia on Wednesday. The peace treaty announced
A bird flies out of a Lalish temple that features a stone black snake on its wall. (Photo: Erin Trieb) Thirty-five miles north of Mosul, Iraq, about an hour’s drive from Islamic State territory, was t
Donald Trump sniffled and sucked down water. He bragged about not paying federal taxes—“That makes me smarter.” He bragged about bragging about profiting from the housing crisis—“That’s called busines
Quick, look at your hands: Are they real? Yeah, sorry, they are. But then look at what's surely in one of them: Your phone. Is anything in THERE real? Who the hell knows? "What's actually real?" is one of the questions we at Motherboard ask ourselves the most, and whether you're trying to fact check…
Much like “the cloud,” “big data,” and “machine learning” before it, the term “artificial intelligence” has been hijacked by marketers and advertising copywriters. Photograph by Erich Hartmann / Magnu