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Read More: #48, seek enlightenment from historical context, contemporaneous public statements, and specific sequence of events“The illogic of the Government’s contentions is palpable. The notion that one can demonstrate animus toward any group of people only by targeting all of them at once is fundamentally…
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Read More: #47: good design and software mask bad credibilityIn “Facebook and Google make lies as pretty as truth: how AMP and instant articles camoflauge fake news” Kyle Chayka writes: “platforms like Google AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, and Apple…
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Read More: #46, stay aware, not afraidAccording to Benjamin Sutton: “Last night, a small group of artists and activists installed a series of subtly tweaked Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) advertisements in two train cars in the…
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Read More: #45, oil at any cost“We have a world that is deeply concerned about the fact that the United States is willing to go to any length to pursue its own agenda, including an agenda…
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Read More: #44, black lives matterThe personal, political, and historical connections between reality and representation are riven with power, beauty, contradiction, and loss. “Ms. Campbell-Coleman, a semiretired nurse in Charlotte, N.C., received this photo in…
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Read More: #43, emotional+rational resonances neededIn my previous #100hardtruth (#42) I quoted from a recent piece by Farhad Manjoo, including this line: “You might even credit cameras — or blame them — for our more…
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Read More: #42: phatic communication eases interactions but lessens informationIn “Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera,” Farhad Manjoo writes: “The growing importance of cameras — of images rather than just text — is altering…
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Read More: #15: the internet is perfect incubator for #fakenews and its material resultsFake news directs our attention to something else we know to be true that remains often harder to see: the internet’s hidden corporate architecture and governmental backbone. The foundational lies…
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Read More: #41, visualize hoaxesSee More: Hoaxy #100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy
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Read More: #40, challenge the narrative of (African) American progress“In the Library of Black Lies, Edgar Arceneaux challenges the narrative of American progress, and in particular, African American progress through the selection, placement, and modification of books in a…