Tag: University of Texas at Austin

The Best Teams That Money Could Buy

The four teams in the College Football Playoff used cash payments from fan “collectives” in unique ways to build their rosters, showing how much an influx of money has changed college sports.

Florida State, 13-0, Snubbed By College Football Playoff Committee

In sports, the best team doesn’t always win a championship, but it almost always gets an opportunity to try. Tell that to the 13-0 Florida State Seminoles.

Richard Hanania’s Racism Is Backed by Silicon Valley Billionaires

Like many supremacist ideologues before him, Richard Hanania benefited from elite sponsorship.

Facebook’s Algorithm Is ‘Influential’ but Doesn’t Necessarily Change Beliefs, Researchers Say

In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook’s and Instagram’s algorithms, suggesting there was no silver bullet to fixing the platforms.