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And for African Americans in particular, I want to say something. We are the only part of the so-called Obama coalition that has to give not 50 percent of our vote, not 60, not 70, not 80, not 90, but 92 percent of our vote in every presidential election, in order for Democrats to win. So, we are beyond a base vote. We are the decisive vote. If we give 85 percent of our vote to the Democrats, Republicans win. And so, we deserve to have a full hearing on all the issues that affect us, and hear from both candidates. And all of the history needs to be on the table to be vetted, for both candidates.

It was the best premise I’ve seen in a horror film in a long, long, long time. It’s one of those movies that’s so good you get mad at it for not being great. He broke his mythology left, right, and center.

Here’s the catch: Videos only auto-play on Facebook when you upload them directly to Facebook. If you upload them to YouTube—or, I don’t know, yoursite.com—and then share them on Facebook, they’ll appear only as static thumbnails in your friends’ and followers’ news feeds, with an outbound link to the site that hosts them. So if you want to win Facebook’s game, you now have to let Facebook host your videos, rather than hosting them on your own site and posting links to them on Facebook. As a website owner, perhaps you can already see the dilemma that John Herrman astutely highlighted in the Awl. You know that yoursite.com’s relevance depends on playing Facebook’s game. But Facebook’s game is now cutting your website out of the equation entirely when it comes to videos, the fastest-growing and most lucrative online medium. If you post a video on your site, it is likely to be received poorly on Facebook, and very few people will see it, so you won’t make much money. If you post it on Facebook, it may be seen by millions. But your advertisements are back on yoursite.com, remember? The advertisements in Facebook’s news feed belong to Facebook, not you.