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Biden’s baffling FCC delay could give Republicans a 2-1 FCC majority | Ars Technica
by Jon Brodkin
7 days ago
President Joe Biden's failure to nominate a fifth Federal Communications Commission member has forced Democrats to work with a 2-2…
Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt. | WSJ
by Jeff Horwitz
September 14, 2021
Mark Zuckerberg has publicly said Facebook Inc. allows its more than three billion users to speak on equal footing with…
Nigeria: How Does Faith Affect Disinformation? | Institute for War and Peace Reporting
by Ishaya Ibrahim
September 14, 2021
Earlier this year, David Lloyd, bishop of the Living Faith Church, told 50,000 people at one of his services in…
“In Kosovo, everybody has their own truth” | Columbia Journalism Review
by Scott Winter
August 24, 2021
Serbians and Albanians have clashed in the mountains and valleys of what is now Kosovo since the fourteenth century. In…
Wikimania | Wikimedia
August 9, 2021
Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement’s annual conference celebrating the free knowledge projects made possible by the volunteer community and hosted by the Wikimedia…
CARGC Book Talk: Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure | Annenberg School for Communication
August 9, 2021
In Visions of Beirut, Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and…
Global Disinfo Summit
August 9, 2021
The events of 2020 have demonstrated the power of disinformation and its effect on the public’s perceptions. New technologies, such…
Facebook’s Reason for Banning Researchers Doesn’t Hold Up | WIRED
by Gilad Edelman
August 5, 2021
When Facebook said Tuesday that it was suspending the accounts of a team of NYU researchers, it made it seem…
The Justice Department’s New Media Protections Are (Mostly) a Promise, Not Yet a Reality | Knight First Amendment Institute
by Anna Diakun and Jameel Jaffer
August 2, 2021
Last week, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced broad new limitations on federal prosecutors’ use of compulsory legal process—including subpoenas, warrants, and court…