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President Trump and his enablers in government and right-wing media will shoulder the blame for Wednesday’s insurrection at the US Capitol, but internet platforms—Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twi
Ben Smith has been doing crackerjack work writing the Media Equation column for The New York Times all year long, but his piece this weekend was pure mainline DF catnip. Headline: “ Apple TV Was Makin
Facebook’s second full-page newspaper ad attacking Apple, helpfully transcribed (and photographed) by MacRumors : Apple vs. the free internet Apple plans to roll out a forced software update that will
In the past decade, celebrity interest and investment in tech companies has significantly increased. But not all celebrity investments are created equally. Some investors, like Ashton Kutcher , have p
‘Thumb-Stopping,’ ‘Humaning,’ ‘B4H’: The Strange Language of Modern Marketing ‘HUMANING’ Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times The ad business is overrun with buzzwords and acronyms, and some people
Better necessarily implies different . That’s one of my favorite axioms. It’s both intuitively and undeniably true. But it gets to the heart of a certain universal cognitive dissonance inherent in man
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8-min read In March 2008, after raising $600 million, acquiring 18% of the outstanding stock, and threatening a proxy contest, I was elected to the board of The New York Times Company. The company was
This won’t take long. That’s the thought in my head, surprisingly often, when I sit down to start reviewing a new product. I have a fundamental synopsis in my head, an encapsulated summary, and I feel
There is a structural problem with writing reviews of multiple new iPhones when they are released together — Mini and Max sizes, say, or Pro and non-Pro tiers, or, in this review’s case, two phones th
Trump at the White House on November 5. Photo: Carlos Barria/REUTERS Donald Trump going out with a limp seems like an oxymoron,” a senior adviser to the president told me. In width and in word, in soa
5-min read I’ve watched CNN for 38 of the last 48 hours. Some observations: • Quinnipiac, Marist, Pew, and FiveThirtyEight should take a poll and stick it up their a$$. • I hope someday someone will t
4-min read I grew up in LA, so I’ve been to Disneyland a lot. My first lessons in economics and marketing — scarcity, fiat currency, opportunity cost, sub-brands — were in Anaheim. Between 1959 and 19
Today, Airbnb Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky sent the following note to the Airbnb host community: Before I was an entrepreneur, I was a host. It all began on October 10, 2007 at an apartment on 19 R
” is a biweekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. One of the greatest paradoxes in American life is that while, on average, existence has gotten more comfortable ov
I’ve been using the new iPad Air for the last week, and, as is my wont with iPad reviews, I’m writing this on it. My personal iPad has been an 11-inch iPad Pro from late 2018. This new iPad Air looks
6-min read As we can’t look away from the Mayor of America’s one-man luge, and the head-on collision of multitasking and Zoom, we risk losing sight of the profound: Americans are dying from the novel
I try to keep two distinct readers in mind with these annual reviews of new iPhones. First, you , today — you probably want insight to help you decide, to some degree, whether you should upgrade from
Last month’s “Time Flies” event for the Apple Watch Series 6 and new iPad Air was about an hour long; this week’s “Hi, Speed” event ran just a bit longer at 70 minutes. Perhaps, if 2020 had gone as pl
A few times in my career, I have genuinely feared for my life. In Arkansas, I posed as an ultimate fighter at a cage match and challenged anyone in the audience to take me on. When my fake ex-boyfrien
2-min read Every decade, there’s at least one financial crisis somewhere in the world. When asked what a recession was, Jamie Dimon responded, “Something that happens every 5-7 years.” It’s been 11. O
Facebook and the Group That Planned to Kidnap Gretchen Whitmer Extremist groups and conspiracy theorists like to connect with each other just like everyone else. Oct. 8, 2020 Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of
Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Evolving’ Position on Holocaust Denial Facebook’s new moves to stop the lies and conspiracy theories seem more random than rigorous. Oct. 14, 2020 Credit... Andrew Harnik/Associated
Saturday Night Live ’s return to television last night seemed intended to project a reassuring air of normalcy. Yes, there may still be a pandemic ravaging the nation, and the president is currently i
I. Hello and welcome to Platformer ! I’m Casey, and I’m thrilled for the first time in my career to be working solely on behalf of my readership. Usually in this space, I dive right into the news of t
THE NINE MONTHS it took to schedule a dinner between Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss and the franchise's newest superstar, LeBron James , really wasn't that long by Los Angeles standards. James l
In late 2019, during one of Mark Zuckerberg ’s many trips to Washington to defend Facebook in front of Congress, he stopped for a private dinner with Donald Trump and offered the president a titillati
One of the numerous lamentable aspects of product introductions in the coronavirus era is the lack of any sort of post-keynote hands-on access to the products. Apple’s product photography is nonpareil
8-min read Variation is an aspect of natural selection that helps a population’s gene pool to develop new traits. Those traits allow the next generation to adapt to changing environments. Symmetry of
Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World How much longer are we going to allow its platform to foment hatred and undermine democracy? Sept. 18, 2020 By Opinion Columnist For years, Myanmar’s militar
Apple Watch Series 6 and SE There’s nothing spectacular or game-changing about Apple Watch Series 6, but it’s a perfect example of Apple’s incremental product update strategy . What’s new in Series 6
Will This Old Financial Tool Transform Tech Investing? Many start-ups and big-idea companies have rediscovered an alternative to a traditional I.P.O. Aug. 28, 2020 Credit... Mark Wang By Ms. Swisher i
Four decades ago, back when the NBA televised its championship games at midnight on tape delay, the unpopular league was considered "too Black," whatever the hell that meant at the time in America. La
“W HY THE Germans do it better”—the title of a new book by John Kampfner, a respected journalist—speaks volumes about the current state of the British psyche. The government is replacing Public Health
Hi! Can here. Today we talk about Facebook’s never-ending PR nightmare. A couple weeks ago, I talked about the dual reality I seemed to be living in. In one, there's an America that's in shambles, wit
Mark Zuckerberg Is the Most Powerful Unelected Man in America Facebook is too big for democracy. Sept. 3, 2020 Mark Zuckerberg on Capitol Hill last year. Credit... Michael Reynolds/EPA, via Shuttersto
4-min read My father, at 90, just divorced his 4th wife. But that’s not what this post is about. My dad’s 3rd wife, Linda, came and spent a few days with us. Enjoy Labor Day. ( Originally published Se
4 min read · Aug 31, 2020 -- A new report recently published by the ‘Institute of Practitioners In Advertising’ in the UK captured the perspectives of 30+ agency and client leads on the state of Accou
3-min read “Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.” — Arnold Glasow The DNC and RNC Zoom calls, posing as conventions, were all about shadows — not the parties or platforms themselves but percept