Where the 19th century had dwelled on the fantasyland of childhood as a magical kingdom of talking animals, good witches and ‘little people’, children’s minds could now be filled with dystopian fantasies of sex and violence.

There’s no moral difference between a wall and a migrant visa.

Predictive policing uses algorithms to analyse data and cut crime. But does it really work, and should it be trusted?

Officers might stop people without ‘reasonable suspicion’ merely because they’re in areas defined by predictive algorithms, thus weakening Fourth Amendment rights.

How Meetup Ditched Its Boys Club.

In three years, Meetup transformed its management team — and the company. Here’s how.

Gamers Are Still Over (but they’re not over Trump).

How Gamergate helped pave the way for a presidential political campaign of white supremacist hate.

Relevant: “I Pissed Off The Alt-Right”.

Newspapers are failing the product solution stack test. (Via medium.theuxblog.com.)

When we solve those issues and are building products that ‘pass the test’ then we can go back to arguing about the ‘original sin’ of digital journalism. Until then, we are still learning how to do digital media and are not ready to write the post mortem. Time is short, but the solutions are at hand if we take advantage.

“We Built a Fake Web Toaster, and It Was Hacked in an Hour.”

Is media bias really rampant? Ask the man who studies it for a living.