danah's piece below is *so damn good* that it should be required reading for absolutely everyone with opinions on social media "harms." I wrote about it (and quoted extensively from it) on Techdirt, but go read the original. www.techdirt.com/2024/10/10/t...
🚨Out in Nature!🚨 Many (eg Trump JimJordan Musk Vance) have accused social media of anti-conservative bias - but is this accurate? We test empirically, and it's more complicated than you might think: conservatives ARE suspended more, but also share more misinfo www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This story just blows my mind because like nearly every cat owner, I took have had times I thought my cat had gotten out when instead she was just lurking somewhere in the basement and it has never once occurred to me to invent a blood libel against my neighbors to explain a missing cat.
I met up with a friend who's the director of the Camp Fire Restoration Project. She said the North Valley Community Foundation is ending its "Butte Strong" fund that funded several Camp Fire-related orgs but this area is still being affected by the 2018 Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise.
Well now we have THIS! (part 2 of 2) The FBI has apparently raided landlord giant Cortland Management (in Georgia) over algorithmic price-fixing collusion. I’m waiting to see this headline appear in a more mainstream news media site.
I love this take from @mmasnick.bsky.socialwww.techdirt.com/2024/03/14/o...
Over the last few days, we’ve had a few posts about the latest attempt to ban TikTok in the US (and to people who say it’s only a divestiture bill: there is a ban in the language of the bill if Byt…
the age of streaming enshittification is upon us. Higher prices, more annoying restrictions, and big brained moves like making popular content harder to watch it will drive piracy rates skyward, at which point executives will blame everything and everyone but themselves
HBO is no longer giving away free next-day looks to 'Last Week Tonight With John Oliver' on YouTube.
The NY Post is part of the Murdoch family's media empire. Media Matters has been one of the few organizations that has consistently called out the Murdochs' poisonous influence in our culture. No surprise that the Post -- which doesn't disclose this context -- is doing a hit piece on Media Matters.
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social Are there US K-12 textbooks that teach well the history of authoritarianism vs. democracy?
