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A thousand dollars a night and no drink refills?

"culture clash" here is a euphemism for "conflict of interest." The news organizations want a competition, but Nate was reporting that there wasn't really much competition. But Nate works for a news organization.

I wonder if there is any pressure on him to also make the races seem closer than they are. It turned out in practice that he didn't have to because half of the country was watching another news organization that was saying he was crazy and wrong.

Not only did Facebook temporarily delete the post internally, the company also contacted Zhang’s hosting service and domain registrar and forced her website offline.

Under what pretense does Facebook accomplish this? Do they extort the hosting service or registrar with threats of service disablement?

Those Sim Cities weren't really Maxis games and were developed by different people.

OK so basically Facebook used scare tactics to extort these companies.