Clara Jeffery,
Editor-in-Chief
"You guys were one of the outlets who got singled out to balance the ledger": That's what a former Facebook employee told Monika Bauerlein and me as we dug into recent news that the platform was throttling traffic to certain publishers, including Mother Jones. It's enraging for several reasons, and since it happened during our fall fundraising drive and affects our bottom line, we hope the Mother Jones community will stand up for our fearless journalism and send a message with a donation to support it today.
"You guys were one of the outlets who got singled out to balance the ledger": That's what a former Facebook employee said as we dug into recent news that the platform was throttling traffic to certain publishers, including Mother Jones. It's enraging, and since it happened during our fall fundraising drive, we hope the Mother Jones community will stand up for our fearless journalism and send a message with a donation to support it today.
We’ve all seen a ton of “I Voted” stickers today, but the vote bragging is also happening on social media. Simon Rogers, Twitter’s data editor, created this map using geotagged tweets with the hashtag #IVoted or the words “I voted” starting at 6 a.m. on election day. (It’s unclear how many of them were tweeted by cats):
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