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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – FEBRUARY 6, 2024  
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February 6, 2024
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_ From “Salt of the Earth” to “Barbie” _

Poster promoting the theatrical premiere of the 1954 film Salt of the
Earth. Credit, Independent Productions Co. / Wikimedia Commons

 

* Taylor Deepfakes
* Islamophobia in the Wall Street Journal
* Big Tech Backslide
* Hollywood Now… and Then
* How Joe Sacco’s Graphic Novel Broke the Silence
* Time to Focus on Info Literacy
* Gaza: Skewed News 
* Open Source AI?
* Red Menace/Yellow Peril: Sen. Cotton Baits TikTok CEO 
* Diversity and AI

TAYLOR DEEPFAKES
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By Mathew Ingram
Columbia Journalism Review

Last week, fake pornographic images of singer Taylor Swift started
spreading across X (formerly known as Twitter). X’s inability to
stop the proliferation of Swift porn may have been caused in part
by Elon Musk’s dismantling of the company’s trust and safety
team, most of whom were fired after he acquired Twitter, in 2022.

ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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By Shruti Rajkumar
Huffpost

The Wall Street Journal is facing outrage on social media over
“Islamophobic” rhetoric in an opinion piece about a Michigan
city. The op-ed referred to Dearborn — a suburb of Detroit with
the largest Muslim population per capita in the U.S. — as
“America’s Jihad Capital,” saying that people there “side with
Hamas” amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Gaza-based
militant group.

BIG TECH BACKSLIDE
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Free Press

We found that in 2023, the largest social-media companies have
deprioritized content moderation and other user trust and safety
protections, including rolling back platform policies that had reduced
the presence of hate, harassment and lies on their networks. These
companies have also laid off critical staff and teams tasked with
maintaining platform integrity. 

HOLLYWOOD NOW… AND THEN

* MARVEL WORLD
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Adler-Bell, Dissent
 
* SALT OF THE EARTH
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  By Ben Burgis, Jacobin
 

HOW JOE SACCO’S GRAPHIC NOVEL BROKE THE SILENCE
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By Diba Mohtasham
NPR

When cartoonist Joe Sacco first published _Palestine_ a little more
than 30 years ago, most people were indifferent. The nonfiction
graphic novel was part comic book, part memoir of his journeys through
the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and nothing like it had ever really been
published before. Today, the acclaimed graphic novel is considered a
trailblazing work.

TIME TO FOCUS ON INFO LITERACY
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By Dijana Šobota
Equal Times

Today, information literacy is increasingly viewed not just as a set
of skills for finding and using information, but also
for _evaluating_ it, i.e., enabling critical consciousness and
ethical use of information. According to this understanding,
information literacy is strongly linked to empowerment, social justice
and civic activism, thus affirming its role and value in a broader
social context.

GAZA: SKEWED NEWS
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By Maximillian Alvarez
The Real News

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has undoubtedly become the most
broadcasted atrocity in history. In spite of this, corporate news
outlets have trafficked in coverage that all-too-often flouts a
reality we can see before our eyes. This sort of unreliability evinces
far more than a crisis of integrity in legacy media—it’s a sign of
a deep political crisis that runs to the upper echelons of our
system. 

OPEN SOURCE AI?
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By Kelsey Piper
Vox

There’s a whole cottage industry of advice about how to trick the
AIs into ignoring their safeguards. But there’s a very
straightforward way around all such protections: Take a model whose
weights — its learnable parameters — have been released publicly,
like Llama 2, and train it yourself to stop objecting to harmful or
illegal content.

RED MENACE/YELLOW PERIL: SEN. COTTON BAITS TIKTOK CEO 
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Firstpost

A day after TikTok CEO Shou Chew was questioned in the U.S. Senate,
Singaporean social media users have called out the U.S. lawmaker for
his questioning. A Singaporean, Shou Chew was repeatedly questioned by
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton on his nationality and his links with China.
Social media users accused Cotton of racism and poor understanding of
Singapore.

DIVERSITY AND AI
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By Jorge Calderon
TechCrunch

As AI’s presence in our lives increases, so does the number of
diverse founders leveraging it to develop positive, socially impactful
services and products. Yet their voices and perspectives remain
largely absent from policy discussions and decisions that will shape
the future of AI and its influence on our society.

* Taylor Swift
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* deepfakes
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* artificial intelligence
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* Islamophobia
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* Wall Street Journal
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* Big Tech
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* MARVEL
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* Salt of the Earth
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* Joe Sacco
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* Comics and graphic novels
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* information literacy
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* Gaza
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* news bias
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* TikTok
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* Shou Chew
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* Tom Cotton
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* Racism
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* US Senate
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* diversity
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