A journalist has a bad experience on Airbnb – the rental is changed last minute to a far worse property than the glossy one advertised and a full refund proves hard to come by. On examining the experience further, she spots a pattern.
The author reflects on his strong suspicion that his loving grandmother knowingly poisoned people throughout her life, to terrible effect.
A look at one of the toughest jobs in the business – content moderation at Facebook. It is area where the company has been forced to ramp up their team due to a string of crises and bad publicity. The piece does well at providing a sense of the scale, difficulty and sheer oddness of the task – which, for example, now involves the company having a specific policy on things like what variety of photos of anuses photoshopped onto celebrities should be acceptable.
An article delving into the state sponsored doping programme undertaken by the East German government in the 1970s.