UW professor: The information war is real, and we’re losing it | The Seattle Times
▻http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/uw-professor-the-information-war-is-real-and-were-losing-it
A University of Washington professor started studying social networks to help people respond to disasters. But she got dragged down a rabbit hole of twitter-boosted conspiracy theories, and ended up mapping our political moment.
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The true common denominator, she found, is anti-globalism — deep suspicion of free trade, multinational business and global institutions.
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“To be antiglobalist often included being anti-mainstream media, anti-immigration, anti-science, anti-U.S. government, and anti-European Union,” Starbird says.
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Seattle’s Famous Gum Wall Is Being Scrubbed Away to Bare Brick
▻http://gizmodo.com/seattles-famous-gum-wall-is-being-scrubbed-away-to-bare-1741894168
Far, far from hygienic but beloved all the same, the Gum Wall is located in Post Alley underneath Pike Place market. But the Seattle Times reports that yesterday, protective suit-clad crew started scraping and using high-temperature pressure washers (whose water hits 260 degrees) to blast off layers of the chewed-up confection, exposing the brick underneath. As they’re melted off the wall, the estimated one million masticated wads are being collected in buckets. It’s the first time the Gum Wall has been completely wiped clean, and the process (which costs $4,000) is expected to last into rest of the week.
Gates discloses media grant after report | Puget Sound Business Journal
►http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/2011/03/gates-discloses-media-grant-after-report.html
When the Seattle Times published a lengthy profile of the Bill & Melinda #Gates Foundation’s #grants to professional #journalists on Feb. 19, the foundation apparently never disclosed that it had already approved its largest award ever to a #media organization.
#cdp