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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – FEBRUARY 20, 2024
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February 20, 2024
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_ Who knows what evil lurks in the heart of AI? _
Protesters hold a banner in front of Google’s UK headquarters in
London, February 2024. Credit, Rivkah Brown
* Training AI to Be Evil
* Zuckerberg Land
* Musk Land
* How Social Media Can Empower Disabled Women
* Google Rebellion Over Israel
* Media Layoffs
* Chicago Trib’s Epic Fail
* De-Monopolizing News Media
* Wisconsin Legislation Would Bolster Local News
* The Plague of Plagiarism
TRAINING AI TO BE EVIL
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré
Futurism
How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it
turns out, according to AI researchers, not very — and attempting to
reroute a bad apple AI's more sinister proclivities might backfire in
the long run.
ZUCKERBERG LAND
* 20 YEARS
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By A.W. Ohlheiser, Vox
* USING THREADS
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By Mathew Ingram, Columbia Journalism Review
MUSK LAND
* TWEET RESTRICTION FIASCO
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By Zoë Schiffer, Wired
* BACK TO BASICS
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By Chris Stokel-Walker, Fast Company
HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CAN EMPOWER DISABLED WOMEN
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By Alejandra Ospina
Women’s eNews
For disabled people (especially women), social media has emerged as a
fertile ground for their stories. And social media platforms swiftly
amplify their voices – allowing them to champion their rights and
share their experiences on their own terms, by dismantling walls of
isolation and forging new bonds.
GOOGLE REBELLION OVER ISRAEL
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By Rivkah Brown
Novara Media
Google workers and members of the public protested at the company’s
UK headquarters, as dissent against the company’s work for the
Israeli government grows. For several years, momentum has been
building among Google workers across the US who oppose the
militarisation of their work, including the company’s collaboration
with Israel. That rebellion is now beginning to spread to the UK.
MEDIA LAYOFFS
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By Edward Helmore
The Guardian
The 2024 evisceration of journalism and media jobs continued with
staff cuts at NowThis, and at the Intercept, an investigation-focused
publication launched 10 years ago with funding from the eBay founder
Pierre Omidyar. Shortly after the news broke, the NowThis Union
shared a statement revealing that a whopping 50% of the staff had been
laid off.
CHICAGO TRIB’S EPIC FAIL
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By Eric Zorn
The Picayune Sentinel
I find it beyond curious that the Tribune didn’t make any
mention of the Guild walkout last Thursday. It was the first such
strike in Chicago history and a story that every other major media
outlet in town covered... What went into the decision to ignore this
story? How do you square the decision with the ostensible mission of
a newspaper to report the news without fear or favor?
DE-MONOPOLIZING NEWS MEDIA
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By Rodney Benson and Victor Pickard
The Conversation
Relying on the benevolence of billionaire owners isn’t a viable
long-term solution to journalism’s crises. In what we call the
“oligarchy media model,” it often creates distinct hazards for
democracy. The recent layoffs at the Los Angeles Times simply
reinforce these concerns.
WISCONSIN LEGISLATION WOULD BOLSTER LOCAL NEWS
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By Alex Frandsen
Free Press
A new package of bills is before the Wisconsin state legislature.
These three pieces of legislation take a holistic approach to
strengthening local news and fostering more informed communities by
supporting existing outlets, sustaining jobs and investing in the
future of media across the state.
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By Yasmin Nair
Plagiarism is a symptom of an exploitative, extractive economy: to end
it means to rectify the an imbalance of power. A publishing world
that devalues writing and writers is one that encourages plagiarism.
A publishing world dominated, as it is today, by plagiarists, is also
one where standards for accuracy have fallen far.
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* Mark Zuckerberg
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* Meta
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* Facebook
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* Threads
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* Elon Musk
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* twitter
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* social media
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* disabled women
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* Google
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* War on Gaza
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* media layoffs
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* Chicago Tribune
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* news media
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* Los Angeles Times
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* Wisconsin
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* plagiarism
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