“Billion Dollar Bully” Yelp Keeps Pressure On Businesses
Despite bad publicity and lawsuits, Yelp continues to tank ratings in order to punish those who won’t advertise.
Despite bad publicity and lawsuits, Yelp continues to tank ratings in order to punish those who won’t advertise.
Josh Golin, Executive Director of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, fights a metastasizing marketing machine that has swept kids into its orbit of consumerism and surveillance.
Author and endocrinologist Robert Lustig explains the neurochemical difference between happiness and pleasure and how it’s been exploited to make so many of us fat, addicted, and depressed. Then, he reminds us how to reclaim our health.
Young people are obsessively checking their phones more every year. Here are some reasons why, and strategies to regain control.
Geofencing is the way corporations and advertisers track your every move–literally.
Twitter has become deeply integrated into the literary world, creating a vastly different dynamic between authors and readers.
Yelp uses the power of its rating system to bully small businesses into buying their expensive advertising; if they decline, so do their ratings.