Well, lets hope that economists start to wake up and realise that numbers are not everything: “Dry statistics on trade aren’t working […] aggregate gains are irrelevant to someone suffering a personal loss.” Read more: Desperately Searching For A New Strategy.
From The Economist: A Breitbart future: Breitbart News pushes deeper into Europe.
Controversie in Belgie over een beslissing over visumaanvraag en scheiding der machten: “De N-VA is een campagne gestart tegen wat ze ‘wereldvreemde’ rechters noemt. Het is vooral partijpolitieke marketing. Maar die is niet zo onschuldig. Want als de grootste partij van het land zo’n campagne opzet, draagt ze bij aan het ondermijnen van het vertrouwen in justitie. Terwijl dat vertrouwen essentieel is om de rechtsstaat overeind te houden.” Lees de opinie hier.
Not for the faint of heart: Under The Hood: How Google AdWords Measures Store Visits
Popular Buzzfeed article that’s been going around on how Italy’s most popular party is leading Europe in fake news and Kremlin propaganda.
The Economist on why the revolutions won’t stop: “[…] regimes are ruthlessly tough on dissent, but much less attentive to its causes.”. Read more: Another Arab awakening is looming, warns a UN report.
Daily chart from The Economist: What the world worries about.
Wow, remarkable visualisations by The Washington Post on the distances you can travel on a European train in less than a day.
In the end the problem is always that people can make money by spreading “fake-news”. Via @NPR: We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here’s What We Learned.
NPR on how our internet freedom is decreasing because of abuse of our social apps by governments: Internet Freedom Wanes As Governments Target Messaging, Social Apps.