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December 10, 2019
“Journalists play a critical role in our society: keep the world honest and balanced. They are true servants of the people,” said Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a tweet from 2015. But it seems only certain kinds of journalists “play a…
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December 11, 2019
Ex-founder of Wikipedia Larry Sanger’s Twitter followers reported that they couldn’t see the tweets he had put out about a social media strike.
“Who wants me to organize mass tryouts of decentralized social media networks?”…
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December 16, 2019
Facebook announced a new policy to label state-funded media on its platform. Qatar-backed outlet Al Jazeera has a problem with that.
In a letter sent by the media outlet’s lawyers to Facebook’s Vice President Jennifer Gillian Newstead…
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December 17, 2019
The 2020 election is going to be fought online and the left has decided to create its own fact-check unit.
The Democratic National Committee started a “counter-disinformation unit” to “serve[] as a knowledge base and intelligence…
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January 2, 2020
Apps collect data about their users. What happens when a foreign government owns that data?
The U.S. military did not want to find out. According to an NBC News report, the Defense Information Systems Agency advised employees to avoid using the app…
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January 6, 2020
The liberal media is sitting up and taking notice of what conservatives are doing -- and they aren’t happy about it.
The New York Times published a write-up about PragerU, a conservative video site founded by Dennis Prager, on Jan. 4, 2020.…
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January 8, 2020
Popular blogging forum Tumblr wants its users to beware of fake news online.
The company, owned by WordPress company Automattic, launched a campaign called World Wide What. In the form of a Tumblr blog, the campaign shares articles from The…
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January 9, 2020
The media and Democrats want to limit Facebook ads before the 2020 election. But Facebook refused to cave in to their demands.
In a Jan. 9 blog post published by Facebook Director of Product Management Rob Leathern, the company argued that “…
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January 13, 2020
Only Hollywood can so fantastically misunderstand a free speech policy and protest its existence.
Actor Mark Hamill (Star Wars) announced on Twitter that he was deleting his Facebook account in order to take a stand against the policies that the…
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January 14, 2020
Leading journalists and editors around the world have some advice for social media companies: there needs to be more censorship.
In a 2020 report released by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 233 people from 32 countries, including…
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