Saturday Link Love is a new feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.
How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study, in New York Times—“Eric Tucker, a 35-year-old co-founder of a marketing company in Austin, Tex., had just about 40 Twitter followers.”
“Please, I Am Out of Options”: Inside the Murky World of DIY Abortions, on the Guardian—“Martina read through her email once again and hovered her finger over the send button.”
And Then There Were Nones: How Millennials’ Flight from Religion Is Transforming American Politics, on Longform—“Just over thirty years after Falwell gave his speech, the United States is becoming more secular rather than more religious.”
Historian Finds German Decree Banning Trump’s Grandfather, on the Guardian—“A historian has discovered a royal decree issued to Donald Trump’s grandfather ordering him to leave Germany and never come back.”
What If Trump Wanted More Illegal Immigration? Wait, He’s On It!, on Bloomberg—“The president-elect we have, whether he knows it or not, already has figured out how to maximize the number of illegal Mexican immigrants.”
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