I got a little behind on posting these this week but I have been keeping my new year’s media diet resolution and largely have been staying away from social media. It’s been a good change. Here are some of the interesting stories I found in ways other than virality.
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- “China Sets New Records for Gobbling Up the World’s Commodities” (Bloomberg) – China’s voracious economic appetite passed one major milestone last year: it is now the world’s largest customer for oil imports.
- “American Democracy Is an Easy Target” (Foreign Policy) – Henry Farrell argues that the best way to understand Russian intereference in America’s elections is as “a loose collective of Russians, with incredibly meager resources, have been working together in a disorganized way to probe American democracy for weaknesses,” and it is those weaknessses, not some master strategy, that has made the efforts so successful.
- “Facebook Crushed Everyone’s “Pivot to Videoâ€â€”Except Its Own” (Slate) – Facebook’s changes to its Mews Feed is “a death knell for publishers that made the infamous ‘pivot to video’†— a strategy that many outlets made under the specific advice of Facebook.
- “An Emissary to Tyranny” (Foreign Policy) – “Go and hang on a banana treeâ€: African-American diplomats serving in Zimbabwe face unceasing racial abuse from the government there.
- “I have cancer. Don’t tell me you’re sorry.” (The Guardian) – Elizabeth Wurtzel on living with cancer is a powerful read.
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