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The first of those will happen tonight (Tuesday, September 29) at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, with topics ranging from COVID-19 and the economy to “race and violence in our cities.” Fox News anchor Chris Wallace will moderate the event, and fact checkers . . . well, we assume they’ll try their best. … [Read more...] about How to watch the presidential debate live on CNN, MSNBC, or elsewhere for free without cable

The 2020 VP debate is scheduled to begin tonight (Wednesday, October 7) at 9 p.m. ET and will air on most major broadcast and cable networks, in addition to streaming live on many social media platforms. Cord cutters who want to watch the debate for free on a TV, computer, smartphone have many, many, many choices. Here are a few easy ones: … [Read more...] about How to watch the vice presidential debate live on CNN, MSNBC, or elsewhere for free without cable

Ben Ellis: Analytics is essential, but you also have to realize what it’s good at and what it’s not. It’s good if you have a series of data points and [you can tell] what’s the trends, what’s the regression. But how can you understand the impact of one more unit of X or Y; what it’s not good at is discontinuities. Analytics, almost by definition, if the context or the environment in the feature is markedly different than the data set, it breaks down. So, I think you need to use analytics, but you also have to understand context. … [Read more...] about Here are the new rules of leadership

If you’ve already continued with the update and want to change your setting to block Facebook message requests after the fact, don’t panic. You can do that by going to Instagram settings > privacy > messages, which takes you back to the “Message Controls” section. Then follow the above steps. Good luck! … [Read more...] about Instagram cross-app messaging: Here’s how to stop random Facebook users from sliding into your DMs

“The fact that they’re continuing to race to do that is really irresponsible,” says Sarah Miller, executive director of the American Economic Liberties Project, which has called for the breakup of both Facebook and Google on the grounds that their dominance of major internet services harms society and democracy and makes them too big to regulate in their current form. “It’s also disrespectful to policy makers and to our democratic institutions that have raised clear and obvious concerns with their acquisition strategy over the years.”Then again, if policy makers feel that they and democratic institutions are being disrespected, Facebook’s melding of its properties could devolve into a self-own. “When Facebook initially bought these companies, it said that it would keep them separate,” says Michael Carrier, a professor at Rutgers Law School who specializes in antitrust issues. “Why are they integrating them? If the only reason … [Read more...] about Inside Facebook’s quadruple play: How the company is finally melding its apps