We are staffing up at @WIRED! Lots of open roles, with more to come.

All of these can be based remotely.

First, on our science team we have vacancies for a writer on health... condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeCar… ...and another writer on the space beat, which "begins deep below the Earth’s surface and stretches all the way to the farthest reaches of the cosmos." condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeCar…

With all the pushback from Facebook against @_KarenHao's recent story, and as one of the editors on the piece, I thought it worth making some observations on the PR strategy Facebook has adopted in response. Other journalists may find this useful. technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/102… Facebook has adopted a multi-pronged approach, which is to be expected. The first prong was to try to overwhelm us with noise. Getting a long list of supposed factual errors after a piece runs inevitably makes reporters and their editors anxious.

https://twitter.com/_KarenHao/status/1370409847502610432

For years, Facebook has been courting selected journalists to tell the story of how hard it's working to curb the worst excesses on its platform. Last spring, it was @_KarenHao's turn at @techreview. technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/102… The narrative Facebook has been pushing over these last few years is that limiting misinformation and hate speech for billions of pieces of content posted daily is an incredibly hard technical challenge that its best minds are working tirelessly to solve. technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/102…

A thread for non-Americans:

When I moved to the US in 2009 I had an abstract understanding of the legacy of slavery, but no real sense of the myriad ways in which that legacy affects the daily lives of African Americans today, even the most privileged. It took me years to really understand the meaning of the phrase “structural racism.” It’s not racial bias; it’s the distortions and inequalities created by a history of racist policy that, if not addressed, would continue to persist even after the last racist thought disappeared.

When @RonanFarrow broke the story about Jeffrey Epstein’s MIT Media Lab donations, one thing was puzzling: Epstein was supposedly on a list of “disqualified” donors at MIT. So how was the Lab able to keep taking his money? newyorker.com/news/news-desk… @RonanFarrow Well, here’s a @techreview interview with Signe Swenson, who leaked the emails to Farrow. @chengela asked her to explain how the "disqualified" donors list worked. technologyreview.com/s/614299/mit-m…

D'oh! I accidentally deleted the start of my most viral tweet thread ever. (@Twitter, we need an undelete button.) So, reposting… A few days ago we ran a piece in @techreview about some research purporting to explain the "hipster effect"—the fact that nonconformists often end up nonconforming in the same way. We used a stock Getty photo of a hipster-ish-looking man. technologyreview.com/s/613034/the-h…