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It's official. Politics is distracting us at work

by Sam Harnett
Mar 6, 2017
We're spending two hours a day reading or talking about issues on the job, a survey finds.
“We found that 87 percent of employees are reading political social media posts during the workday,” said Kris Duggan, CEO of BetterWorks.
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What it could take for Twitter to end harassment and abuse

by Dan Gorenstein
Feb 8, 2017
Can they fix it?
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Workers are increasingly distracted by politics on social media

by Kai Ryssdal
Feb 7, 2017
A survey found that reading online posts and talking with co-workers is eating up a lot of time.
A survey found that most full-time workers are spending two to three hours at work reading political posts on social media.
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Teaching a brand to be clever on Twitter

by Stephanie Hughes
Feb 3, 2017
Live events like the Super Bowl offer companies a chance to give a 'social wink' to audiences.
"Brands can go back in time to that spontaneous moment, and create content around it," said Stacy Minero, the head of content planning at Twitter. She uses Joe Namath and his fur coat as an example.
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Is that an #Ad? Or does she just really love her mattress?

by Kai Ryssdal and Robert Garrova
Feb 2, 2017
Katie Notopoulos investigates celebrity social media for improperly labeled ads.
The Instagram post that prompted Buzzfeed's first "Is this an ad?" column.  
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What Amazon’s former chief scientist says about personal data rights

by Ben Johnson and Danielle Stephens
Feb 2, 2017
Amazon's former chief scientist Andreas Weigend says that data can be empowering in a post-privacy economy.
A lot of companies, big and unknown alike, often take information collected from you and sell it to other companies.
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When Trump's tweets rile Wall Street

by Mark Garrison
Jan 25, 2017
A president willing to call out individual companies is practically unknown.
A television screen shows President Donald Trump as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on the first day of trading after Donald Trump was sworn in as president on January 23, 2017 in New York City.   
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Twitter is struggling to turn relevance into revenue

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar
Jan 9, 2017
Despite it being the President-elect's main form of communication
A selection of recent Trump tweets. 
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Motorcycle companies are finally catching up to their female clientele

by Marketplace Contributor
Dec 27, 2016
The industry is catering to a growing demographic of riders.
Myra Anderson, left, of Los Angeles; Savannah Rose, of Long Beach; and Candra De Bord, of North Carolina, at the Babes Ride Out campground in Joshua Tree National Park in California.
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New Facebook features allow users to report fake stories

by Kai Ryssdal
Dec 15, 2016
Baby steps.
The new feature allows users to flag a story as fake.
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