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August’s Baker’s Dozen

Post author By Billy Gray
Post date August 20, 2023
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Users in Europe will be able to shake TikTok's (in)famous algorithm.

Europe (maybe) reins in TikTok, streaming triumphs, Disney struggles and more…

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Admissions and Merit

Post author By Billy Gray
Post date August 11, 2023
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Admissions at elite colleges is an even bigger mess than most acknowledge.

Diversity takes many forms. And Affirmative Action as it functioned at the University of North Carolina and Harvard, the two schools named in the case, deserved tough questioning.

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July’s Baker’s Dozen

Post author By Billy Gray
Post date July 29, 2023
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“Barbenheimer” gave Hollywood some desperately needed good news.

A monthly roundup of media winners and losers.

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Artificial Information

Post author By Billy Gray
Post date June 5, 2023
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The threat of more sophisticated disinformation campaigns is already here. And it’s bound to grow.

What worries me more than the season’s social media snafus, and even more than its crude culture war battles, is the destabilizing and misleading role that Artificial Intelligence is likely to play in the long, muddy march to the White House.

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