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I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline. | BuzzFeed News
by Pranav Dixit
6 days ago
I was in a cavernous college auditorium on the frigid winter afternoon in New Delhi in 2015 when Sundar Pichai,…
Facebook’s New Target in the Misinformation War: Climate Lies | Bloomberg
by Kurt Wagner
6 days ago
In the midst of the heated U.S. presidential race last summer, with hypercharged scrutiny of partisan propaganda on social media,…
Why China’s attempts to stifle foreign media criticism are likely to fail | The Conversation
by Tony Walker
6 days ago
When China’s ambassador to Australia, Cheng Jingye, summoned journalists to the Chinese embassy last week, this was not an occasion…
Podcast: Dr. Atul Gawande on how vax hesitancy impacts herd immunity | Axios
by Axios Re:Cap
April 9, 2021
Nearly one in five American adults is hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine, which could make it harder for the…
Prisons need better vaccine education for inmates, advocates say | PBS NewsHour
by Dave Collins
April 9, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Shortly before COVID-19 vaccinations began in January at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, officials held…
Survival Guides for an Uncertain Future: Kevin Roose and Ethan Zuckerman Envision What Will Be | Center for Brooklyn History & Brooklyn Public Library
April 6, 2021
If the speed that the world is changing makes you want to crawl into a cave, if you fret over…
Why Being ‘Anti-Media’ Is Now Part Of The GOP Identity | FiveThirtyEight
by Meredith Conroy
April 6, 2021
There’s little question that the media is one of the least trusted institutions in Republican circles. In the past two…
Can A.I. help Facebook cure its disinformation problem? | Fortune
by Jeremy Kahn
April 6, 2021
In addition to testing American democracy, November’s election and the subsequent storming of the U.S. Capitol put social media to the test. Facebook and its rivals have spent…
Millions of white evangelicals do not intend to get vaccinated. |The New York Times
by Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham
April 6, 2021
Across white evangelical America, reasons not to get vaccinated have spread quickly. The deeply held spiritual convictions or counterfactual arguments…