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Big Tech Is Pushing States to Pass Privacy Laws, and Yes, You Should Be Suspicious | The Markup
by Todd Feathers
3 days ago
Concerned about growing momentum behind efforts to regulate the commercial use of personal data, Big Tech has begun seeding watered-down…
Propaganda, misinformation, and histories of media techniques | HKS Misinformation Review
by C.W. Anderson
3 days ago
Propaganda has a history and so does research on it. In other words, the mechanisms and methods through which media…
Measuring the news and its impact on democracy | PNAS
by Duncan J. Watts, David M. Rothschild, and Markus Mobius
4 days ago
Since the 2016 US presidential election, the deliberate spread of misinformation online, and on social media in particular, has generated…
Alessandra Galloni on how to restore trust in news: “Focus ruthlessly on the facts” | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
5 days ago
Journalism today is facing two overlapping challenges: one is technological and the other one is political. The technological change is…
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…
How Black community leaders put Mississippi on the path to vaccine equity | Mississippi Today
by Will Stribling
April 9, 2021
As Mississippi’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines began to ramp up in early 2021, a troubling truth was revealed about the…