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Chicago Tribune Votes in their Union
After 171 years of operating as a non-union newspaper the Chicago Tribune’s staff finally have a recognized union in their workplace.
Cambridge Analytica Announces Closure
Cambridge Analytica, the advertising firm at the heart of the Facebook data breech, has announced that they will be closing. Find out more from CNN.
How to Use Hashtags
Social networks are becoming more and more important in people’s everyday lives. Sites like Facebook probably know more about your daily habits than most of your family. While UCOMM has...
UCOMM on The Rick Smith Show
On Friday, UCOMM’s Kris LaGrange was a guest on The Rick Smith Show. The show also featured Neal Bisno, SEIU Executive Vice President, Political Commentator and Journalist Sarah Kendzior and...
Zuckerberg admits Russian Meddling in 2016 Election
Even before we released the Cambridge Analytica series, that explains how data was used to manipulate the Trump vote in the 2016 Presidential election, we suggested that there be more regulation with...
We Need to Change the Way We Advertise
Sometimes UCOMM gets nonsensical heat for inadvertently placing digital ads on Breitbart. This time, a troll on the internet called out unions for having a pro-union ad on that site. The ad, which is...
Is Facebook Good for the World?
In our sadly unpopular Cambridge Analytica series, we mentioned in part 3 that I was personally asked to participate in a survey that simply asked is “Facebook good for the world?”...
The Onion Staff Joins the Writers Guild
No, it is not an April Fools joke, the employees at the Onion are forming a union. Employees at Onion Inc, which includes The A/V Club, The Onion, and Clickhole have all decided to join the...
Cambridge Analytica Part IV: Regulating the Regulators
Over the last three days, UCOMM has been looking at how Cambridge Analytica (CA) used a Russian scientist to mine data on 50 million Americans. They then used this data to create emotional profiles...
We Need to Pay Closer Attention
We often write stories that do well. In January 2018 we wrote about Trump trying to take away federal pensions. A sad but true story that delivered over 180,000 reads. Then last week, we wrote a...