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Today’s links:

• 51% Of Tech Industry Workers Believe President Trump Has A Point About The Media Creating Fake Newswww.buzzfeednews.com #

• Women’s viewership of e-sports grew from 23.9 percent of all watchers in 2016 to 30.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2018venturebeat.com #

• When algorithms think you want to die - It's those creepy algorithms again!www.wired.com #

• YouTube's Latest Child Exploitation Controversy Has Kick-Started A War Over How To Fix The Platform - Personally I think it's better that the problem has been highlighted publiclywww.buzzfeednews.com #

• Elon Musk should definitely consider getting a haircut and dare I say it perhaps even a shave at this Hanoi barber shop, also how does he feel about algorithms controlling our information diet - hard not to notice the timeliness of this considering the Radiolab podcast from yesterdaywww.bbc.com #

• "We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view. At The Independent, no one tells us what to write." - Pretty much any other 21 word phrase would be better than this as the slogan for the Independent newspaper, IMOwww.independent.co.uk #

• Independent - "not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself"www.dictionary.com #