The Republican Party has launched an all-out war against fact checkers and those who study disinformation.
Using lawsuits and congressional hearings, their campaign against the truth seeks to scare fact checkers and disinformation researchers into silence.
The objective is clear: To make it impossible to distinguish between lies and truth. https://framelab.substack.com/p/gop-war-on-truth-targets-fact-checkers
I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.
In the wake of news from the bird site that Twitter will end free access to its API, I pulled together a blog post about what that may mean for academic researchers, including those I work with at the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public.
As CIP director @katestarbird observed, this action “will profoundly change how researchers (and society) can study and understand online behavior.”
https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/02/02/twitters-api-access-changes-academic-research/
While Twitter’s tweet about API access indicated that details about pricing would be forthcoming, the future of continued academic research on the platform is very much in question.
There are now 242 anti-LGBTQ introduced bills with at least 238 of these being anti-trans bills. That is more this year than in all of 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 COMBINED. This is a war on trans existence.
Anti-LGBTQ Bills State,Number,Summary,Bill Type,Date,Status,Erin Reed's State Risk,Notes,URL,Sponsors,Calendar,Change Hash Alaska,<a href="https://legiscan.com/AK/bill/HB27/2023">HB27</a>,Designate Sex For School-sponsored Sports,Trans Sports Ban,1/19/2023,REFERRED TO EDUCATION,Moderate,<a href=...
The market has failed. Philanthropy can't do it. The public good that is local news needs another support system. Now there's an alliance calling for public policy solutions. Rebuild Local News it is called. Their ideas:
* A tax credit for consumers to subscribe to or donate to local news
* A tax credit for small businesses to advertise in local news
* A tax credit for local news organizations to hire and retain local journalists
https://www.cjr.org/opinion/how-public-policy-can-help-save-local-news.php
<p>It’s understandable that the idea that government should help save local media makes many journalists’ skin crawl. How can reporters get support from one of the institutions we’re supposed to be holding accountable? In this case, journalists should rethink their concerns. Here’s why: The local news crisis is severe—and on a scale beyond the capacity […]</p>
Happy anniversary to NIAGARA, which hit theaters 70 years ago today.
As two couples visit Niagara Falls, tensions between a wife and her husband escalate to murder.
Marilyn Monroe's first starring role, and she proved she was more than just eye candy, with an incredibly magnetic presence.
Noteworthy: Film Noir filmed in technicolor
#FilmAnniversary #MovieAnniversary #movies #cinemastodon #film #cinema #filmastodon #FilmBubble #niagara1953 #marilynmonroe
Finland has closely watched the Russian troll factory's efforts to create chaos in free democracies. We now educate our children to recognize #misinformation and rank #1 in our ability to resist it.
I wish the Americans would do the same.
George Lakoff
Max Kennerly
Michael Grass
david roberts
Jay Rosen
Steve Herman
TomSchmidt
Mikko Alasaarela