Morning Brew / Ryan Barwick
Here’s the business model behind the media bias chart that’s gone viral →“To review individual articles, podcasts, and news shows, Ad Fontes relies on roughly 35 part-time analysts, each paid $20 an hour. Each piece of content is given three analysts who self-report as politically left-leaning, right-leaning, or center (uh, leaning?). They individually rate content—whether it’s an article or podcast episode—based on a scale, then combine their scores.”
Austin American-Statesman / Madlin Mekelburg
The Washington Post / Adam Bernstein
Refinery29 / Money Diaries
The Guardian / Johana Bhuiyan
The Verge / Barbara Krasnoff
The Wall Street Journal / Ryan Tracy and John D. McKinnon
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri faces Senate panel about the app’s effect on body image issues →“‘After bombshell reports about Instagram’s toxic impacts, we want to hear straight from the company’s leadership why it uses powerful algorithms that push poisonous content to children driving them down rabbit holes to dark places, and what it will do to make its platform safer,’ said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.), chairman of the subcommittee, in a statement.”
The New York Times / Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin