Thursday, March 22, 2018

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: The Open Secrets of Cambridge Analytica and Much More


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From: The New Yorker <NewYorker@newsletter.newyorker.com>
Date: 22 March 2018 at 18:47
Subject: The Open Secrets of Cambridge Analytica
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What the scandal reveals about our lives online and about democracy. Plus: when ICE tries to deport Americans.
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Thursday, March 20, 2018

Elements

Cambridge Analytica and Our Lives Inside the Surveillance Machine

You don't need to believe the hype about the firm's persuasive power to worry that data-obsessed political marketing is undermining democracy.

By Adrian Chen
News Desk

The Revelation of Facebook's Open Secrets

Nobody hacked the company—nor would anyone have had to—because its entire business model is predicated on mining the personal details of its users.

By Sue Halpern
Daily Comment

When ICE Tries to Deport Americans, Who Defends Them?

On average, a hundred and fifty Americans are mistakenly detained every year. What sort of legal protection do they have?

By Steve Coll
PAID POST

Winner of the 2018 Caldecott Medal: Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell

An NPR and Huffington Post Best Book of the Year, Matthew Cordell's stunning picture book is warming hearts everywhere. Paintings rich with feeling tell a satisfying story of friendship and trust that will spark imaginations.

More in Culture

Page-Turner

The Advice Columnists Who Prescribe Literature as Medicine

A new kind of agony aunt draws on the therapeutic powers of books and poems.

By Katy Waldman
Culture Desk

How Balkrishna Doshi Devised a Distinctly Indian Modernism

The ninety-year-old, who won this year's Pritzker Prize, believes that architecture should be informed by empathy.

By Samanth Subramanian
Culture Desk

Zimbabwe's Powerful Music of Struggle

Thomas Mapfumo, a leading chimurenga singer who championed his country's war for independence in song, returns after a decade of self-imposed exile.

By Anakwa Dwamena
Culture Desk

Swept Away by a Dark Current: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

I was in seventh grade when I started reading O'Neill. The ferocity of his plays overwhelmed me; his untethered passions and imagination allowed mine to be untethered, too.

By Howard Fishman
PAID POST

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Set your sights on North America's largest documentary festival.

Humor from The New Yorker

Shouts & Murmurs

The British Museum of Your Stuff

Museum experts obtained this almost new wallet by jostling a tourist on a trolleybus in St. Petersburg, Russia, and relieving him of it—tough cheese on him.

By Ian Frazier
Daily Cartoon

Thursday, March 22nd

By Peter Kuper

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