Posts by Colin Horgan

File photo of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during a town hall at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California

The dark irony behind Facebook’s fake news problem

In exchange for fake news, Facebook users handed over the only thing they still retain that has value in this new economy—not their labour, but their data

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The inevitability of Donald Trump

One photo, less than 1,000 words: Five years later, Donald Trump gets the last laugh

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Rewind: Why are cassette tapes coming back?

The mini-revival of the cassette tape may just be another kitschy millennial obsession—but the obsession is important, all the same

Canada

One photo, less than 1,000 words: Ken Pagan vs. Everybody

Ken Pagan stands accused by the crowd, and makes us wonder how we look in photographs

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One photo, less than 1,000 words: On Hillary’s selfie sea

There is a reason beyond vanity or celebrity-seeking that millennials were taking selfies at a Clinton rally

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How Hillary Clinton won the debate gif war

How a lasting image of Hillary Clinton from Monday night could help her lagging campaign

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Harambe is about everything and nothing. Just like the internet.

At an evening candlelight vigil for a deceased gorilla, Harambe, the lines between the sincere and the trivial become blurred beyond recognition

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America’s press is dead. Long live the billionaires.

Is a billionaire interviewer really the last line of defence against Donald Trump?

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Why Donald Trump met Dr. Oz

One picture, less than 1,000 words: Dr. Oz’s show was a perfect setting for Donald Trump to make his sales pitch to America

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Airbnb’s Toronto data is a confusing mess

Airbnb released data to try to convince Toronto that it isn’t causing rising rental rates and housing shortages. It failed.

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