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  • What the Harassment of Journalist Taylor Lorenz Can Teach Newsrooms | Media Manipulation Casebook

    March 4, 2022

    Taylor Lorenz is one of the highest profile journalists in America. She consistently draws huge audiences to her stories, marking the publication she writes for – most recently The New […]

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  • National Butterfly Center in Texas shuts down amid right-wing harassment | NPR

    February 3, 2022

    The butterflies will fly no more — or not in public view, anyway. The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, has announced that it’s closing its doors “for the immediate […]

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  • Bug Bounties For Algorithmic Harms? | Algorithmic Justice League

    January 27, 2022

    Paying hackers to disclose bugs was once considered radical; now, it’s common. ‘Bug bounty’ programs (BBPs) for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, wherein participants are rewarded for identifying exploitable flaws (or security ‘bugs’) […]

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  • This is what it’s like to be a media company’s first-ever online safety editor | Nieman Journalism Lab

    January 20, 2022

    Ask any journalist today — especially a woman, person of color, and anyone else from a marginalized community — about how it feels to be a journalist on the internet […]

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  • Twitter Spaces is being used by the Taliban and white nationalists. | The Washington Post

    December 14, 2021

    Earlier this year, as Twitter raced to roll out Spaces, its new live audio chat feature, some employees asked how the company planned to make sure the service didn’t become […]

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  • UN draft condemns attacks on journalists, urges punishment | AP News

    November 9, 2021

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A proposed U.N. resolution would “unequivocally” condemn all attacks, reprisals and violence against journalists and media workers and urge governments to take action to end the […]

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  • Video: People’s tribunal for murder of journalists opens at The Hague | Al Jazeera

    November 4, 2021

    Journalists around the world are frequently detained, kidnapped and even killed – simply for reporting the news. In the past 30 years, at least 1,400 journalists have been killed. Yet […]

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  • Facebook’s policing of vitriol is even more lackluster outside the US, critics say | The Guardian

    October 19, 2021

    On a cloudy evening in Nairobi, Berhan Taye is scrolling through a spreadsheet in which she has helped document more than 140 Facebook posts from Ethiopia that contain hate speech. […]

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  • ‘It is becoming unbearable:’ Journalists say they have become ‘scapegoats’ at anti-vaccine protests | Committee to Protect Journalists

    October 7, 2021

    Journalists covering demonstrations against COVID-19 countermeasures have been called “terrorists,” “pedophiles,” “murderers,” and “scumbags.” Protesters have harassed and assaulted members of the press, and told them that “the nooses are […]

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  • Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show. | WSJ

    September 21, 2021

    In January, a former cop turned Facebook Inc. investigator posted an all-staff memo on the company’s internal message board. It began “Happy 2021 to everyone!!” and then proceeded to detail […]

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