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The Flack™ for Friday, February 10, 2023

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Microsoft and Google Enlist Artificial Intelligence to Heat up Search Rivalry; The Blurred Lines Between Goldman C.E.O.’s Day Job and His DJ Gig; The CEO Who Quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in Her Layoff Email Apologizes to Staff; A Newspaper Taught Hemingway to Write; Mangled Voice-to-Text Messages Are Embarrassing Users;

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The Flack™ for Friday, January 13, 2022

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The Sports Scandal Almost Nobody Is Talking About; Is Channel 5 the Future of News?; What Happened When the Olive-Oil Startup Apologized; From Elon Musk to Drake, Celebrity Nightstand Photos Are Causing a Stir; Wordle Editor Tracy Bennett Reveals What Words Get the Most Complaints; ‘Woke Mind Virus’? ‘Corporate Wokeness’? Why Red America Has Declared War on Corporate America

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The Flack™ for Friday, December 30, 2022

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Crisis Management Lessons From Southwest Airlines’ Meltdown; Barnes & Noble Store Expansion Leads Big-Box Real-Estate Revival in 2023; The Sneaky Economics of Ticketmaster; How Frighteningly Strong Meth Has Supercharged Homelessness; ‘Can I Go Back to My Regular Job?’ Sports Anchor Goes Viral For Blizzard Coverage

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The Flack™ for Friday, December 2, 2022

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“I’ve Had a Bad Month.” Sam Bankman-Fried Is Challenged on the Collapse of FTX; Taylor Swift And Ticketmaster Are Providing Crisis Response Lessons For Business Leaders; Can’t Hear What Actors Are Saying on TV? It’s Not You, Probably; The Shadow Over the World Cup; ‘It’s Been Awkward.’ Pickleball Is Pitting Neighbor Against Neighbor in Noise-Conscious Communities

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The Flack™ for Friday, November 18, 2022

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Qatar Bans Beer Sales at World Cup Stadiums; The Ethical Case for Watching This Possibly Unethical World Cup; Changes Are Coming to Wordle; How Liquid Death Became Gen Z’s La Croix; From $32 Billion to Criminal Investigations: How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Vanished Overnight; The Evolution of Elon Musk: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

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The Flack™ for Friday, November 4, 2022

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Kanye West: No American Icon Has Ever Self-destructed So Spectacularly; Welcome to Geriatric Social Media; TikTok Creators Are Reinventing the Scathing Restaurant Review; Elon Musk Is Awkwardly Haggling with Stephen King Over the Price of a Blue Check Mark; Deepfakes’ of Celebrities Have Begun Appearing in Ads, With or Without Their Permission

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The Flack™ for Friday, October 21, 2022

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‘Disinformation Weekly’: How Midterm Newspapers are Failing the Electorate; Florida Fire Marshal Calls on Elon Musk and Others for Answers About Vehicles Catching Fire; Inside Noah Shachtman’s Raucous Reinvention of Rolling Stone; The 5,000-Year History of Writer’s Block;Simple Writing Pays Off (literally); The Evolution of Late Night

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