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Hacker News Jun 29, 2024

Amazon is reviewing whether Perplexity AI improperly scraped online content
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-perplexity-online-content-scraping-investigation-eb1d6bc1caf3dfe0c97db6f4fc691bc9
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Amazon is reviewing whether Perplexity AI improperly scraped online content

Amazon is reviewing claims that the artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI is scraping content — including from prominent news sites — without approval. A spokesperson for Amazon confirmed Friday that the tech giant was assessing information it received from the news outlet WIRED. Earlier this month, WIRED had published an investigation that said Perplexity appeared to scrape content from websites that had prohibited access from such practices. The San Francisco-based AI search startup has been a darling of prominent tech investors, including heavy hitters such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. But in the past few weeks, the company has found itself in hot water amid accusations of plagiarism.

AP News

Hacker News Jun 25, 2024

AP launches a sister organization seeking grants to support local, state news
https://apnews.com/article/reporters-local-ap-foundations-c2c3fced7b46e7f0a6e0ebe6773fde4a
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The AP is setting up a sister organization seeking grants to support local and state news

The Associated Press says it is setting up a sister organization to solicit donor funding in support of local and state news, both at AP and elsewhere. The outlet says it wants to take a leadership role in boosting local news, a sector that has been collapsing this century with little indication that things are changing. Like many news organizations, AP has turned to foundations for help with its journalism, raising more than $60 million over seven years to bolster reporting in areas like religion and climate. One industry expert who said he welcomed AP's plans, particularly pointing to the need for state government coverage.

AP News

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Apr 25, 2024

The Media Lens Chamber Of Propaganda Horrors – An Appeal For Support (Media Lens)

Did the Dark Ages ever really end?

‘Part of the tragedy of the Palestinians is that they have essentially no international support. They don’t have wealth, they don’t have power. So they don’t have rights. It’s the way the world works.’

https://www.medialens.org/2024/the-media-lens-chamber-of-propaganda-horrors-an-appeal-for-support/

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The Media Lens Chamber Of Propaganda Horrors – An Appeal For Support

Tourists visiting Spanish cities like Córdoba, Toledo and Sevilla have the option of whiling away an hour or s

Media Lens

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Sep 20, 2023

The Mass-Media Memory Hole – Blair, Ukraine and Libya (Media Lens)

A key function of state-corporate media is to keep the public pacified, ignorant and ill-equipped to disrupt establishment power.

George Orwell’s famous ‘memory hole’

https://www.medialens.org/2023/the-mass-media-memory-hole-blair-ukraine-and-libya/

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The Mass-Media Memory Hole – Blair, Ukraine and Libya

A key function of state-corporate media is to keep the public pacified, ignorant and ill-equipped to disrupt e

Media Lens

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Sep 20, 2023

The media needs to cover the climate crisis as seriously as it covered Covid (The Guardian)

With the planet on fire, more and better news coverage is itself an essential climate solution.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/20/climate-crisis-media-coverage-covid

#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #fossil_fuels #co2 #air_pollution #global_warming #extreme_weather #forest_fires #flooding #health #propaganda #fake_news #disinformation #capitalism #industrial_capitalism #media #news #news_media #journalist #journalism #Covering_Climate_Now

The media need to cover the climate crisis as seriously as it covered Covid

With some exceptions, the news industry is still not responding to the true scale and danger of global heating

The Guardian

Bert Ernste • NL | BR Jun 6, 2023

Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. (...) worry about the future (The Guardian)

The abuses the Guardian helped him bring to worldwide attention go on: the authorities have merely made it harder to expose them.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/06/edward-snowden-state-spying-guardian-alan-rusbridger

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Ten years ago, Edward Snowden warned us about state spying. Spare a thought for him, and worry about the future

The abuses the Guardian helped him bring to worldwide attention go on: the authorities have merely made it harder to expose them

The Guardian

Mohammad Apr 18, 2023

🔴تهران حمله ی رژیم تروریستی اسلامی با گاز شیمیایی به‌ مدرسه ای در نارمک منطقه ۸ تهران
۲۷ فروردین ۱۴۰۲
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Tehran, the Islamic terrorist regime of Iran attacked the girls' school in Narmak district 8 of Tehran with chemical gas.
April 27, 1402
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