Reads: Amazon's Booming Ad Business, Selfie Dysmorphia & More

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...
  1. Faking It: How Selfie Dysmorphia Is Driving People to Seek Surgery - The Guardian
  2. The Endless Hunt for the Perfect Flu Vaccine - The Guardian
  3. WhatsApp, Great Firewall, Weekly Packet and Yandex: The Internet, But Not as We Know It: Life Online in China, Cuba, India and Russia - The Guardian
  4. Reflections on Antarctica - The New York Times
  5. Why People Ghost — and How to Get Over It - The New York Times
  6. The Big Ad Boom: Amazon Knows What You Buy. And It's Building a Big Ad Business From It. - The New York Times
  7. Personal Data: GDPR Makes it Easier to Get Your Data, But That Doesn't Mean You'll Understand It - The Verge
  8. Love in the Age of Data - Los Angeles Review of Books
  9. Does Journalism Have a Future? - The New Yorker
  10. The Art of Decision-Making - The New Yorker
  11. Father Time - The New Yorker
  12. Yes, "Algorithms" Can Be Biased. Here's Why - Ars Technica
  13. What People Actually Say Before They Die - The Atlantic
  14. Reporter Forgery: The Internal Fraud at DER SPIEGEL - DER SPIEGEL
  15. Goodbye Big Five: Life Without the Tech Giants - Gizmodo
  16. The Tech Revolt - The California Sunday Magazine
  17. Tubeception: We Followed YouTube's Recommendation Algorithm Down The Rabbit Hole - Buzzfeed
  18. Apple Traps Consumers in an App Store War - Bloomberg
  19. Profiting Off Data Mining: Period-Tracking Apps Are Monetizing Women's Extremely Personal Data - Bloomberg
  20. How London Became the Center of the World - National Geographic

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