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2020-08-14 DIGEST: DRIVERS, STATES, AND MEMBERS
In the past week we found 2,940 unique links from 191 emails, sourcing from 71 newsletters.
The most linked story of the week was Facebook Fired An Employee Who Collected Evidence Of Right-Wing Pages Getting Preferential Treatment.
As seen in 8 newsletters; API Need To Know, Axios Log-In, Benedict Evans, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Techmeme, WTF Just Happened Today?.
7-DAY ROLLING AVERAGE OF APPEARANCE RATE OF TOP LINKS IN THE PAST MONTH
Opinion | John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
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Jul 15 Aug 14
As seen in 1440, Fives Best Ideas Of The Day, Internet Brunch, Just Good Shit, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Ritholtz's Reads, Swissmiss, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Friyay Fuel, The Interface, The Morning Missive, The Skimm, The Sunday Long Read, Vox Sentences, WTF Just Happened Today?, Why Is This Interesting?.
How the Pandemic Defeated America
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Jul 15 Aug 14
As seen in 1440, Fives Best Ideas Of The Day, Links I Would Gchat You, Longform, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Public Announcements, Swissmiss, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Media Today, The Sunday Long Read, Vox Sentences, Weekly Filet, Why Is This Interesting?.
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Jul 15 Aug 14
As seen in 1440, Creative Mornings, Girls' Night In, Internet Brunch, Laura Olin, Morning Brew, Semi-Rad, Swissmiss, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Hustle Daily, The Week That Was.
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Jul 15 Aug 14
As seen in 1440, Daily Dose, Morning Brew, The Skimm.
'Jaw-dropping' world fertility rate crash expected
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Jul 15 Aug 14
As seen in 1440, Briefing Day, Inside Daily Brief, Need2Know, Next Draft, Public Announcements, TLDR.
The Panopticon Is Already Here
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Jul 15 Aug 14
As seen in Longform, Next Draft, Ritholtz's Reads, Techmeme, The Interface, The Sunday Long Read.
Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
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Jul 15 Aug 14
As seen in Briefing Day, Just Good Shit, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Ritholtz's Reads, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Collected AHP, The Sunday Long Read.
Facebook Fired An Employee Who Collected Evidence Of Right-Wing Pages Getting Preferential Treatment
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Jul 15 Aug 14
As seen in API Need To Know, Axios Log-In, Benedict Evans, Muck Rack Daily, Next Draft, Techmeme, WTF Just Happened Today?.
THREE RANDOM LINKS THAT APPEARED JUST ONCE THIS MONTH
6 (more) tips to quickly improve your UIs
As seen in Sidebar.
Sourcing from the following newsletters: 1440, 5 Smart Reads, 5-Bullet Friday, 5ish, A Cup of Jo, API Need To Know, Austin Kleon, Avios World, Axios Log-In, B3ta, Benedict Evans, Big Technology, Brain Food, Brain Pickings, Brass Ring Daily, Briefing Day, Creative Mornings, CuriosityPill, Curious Electric News, Daily Dose, Data is Plural, Deez Links, Digg, Drinking From The Firehose, Electric Speed, Elevator, Everything in Moderation, Finding Beauty, Fives Best Ideas Of The Day, Fresh Garbage, Garbage Day, Girls' Night In, HRDlist, Hacker News, Here For It, Imperica, Inside Daily Brief, Internet Brunch, Jocelyn K. Glei, Just Good Shit, Katexic Clippings, Laura Olin, Lily Lines, Link Me Up Scotty!, Links I Would Gchat You, Longform, Lorem Ipsum, Matt's Thoughts In Between, Media Genius, Monday Musings, Morning Brew, Muck Rack Daily, Need2Know, Next Draft, Noah Kalina, Nonostantement, Numlock News, Pluralistic, Pop Culture Happy Hour, Public Announcements, Radio Lab, Recomendo, Reply All, Ritholtz's Reads, Rusty's Electric Dreams, Semi-Rad, Sentiers, Shelter, Shit from the Internet, Sidebar, Slugs, Spark Edition, Swissmiss, TLDR, Techmeme, The Ann Friedman Weekly, The Breads, The Collected AHP, The DO Newsletter, The Daily Respite, The Five Seven, The Friyay Fuel, The Good Trade, The Hustle Daily, The Interface, The Land Of Random, The Lunch Read, The Media Today, The Morning Missive, The Newsette, The Roundup, The Skimm, The Spoon, The Sunday Long Read, The Week That Was, The What List, The Whippet, Three Banana Thursday, Vox Sentences, WTF Just Happened Today?, Warning: Graphic Content, Weekly Filet, Weekly Thing, Welcome To Hell World, Why Is This Interesting?.
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