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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – MARCH 5, 2024
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The entrance to the New York Times as pro-Palestine activists
denounce the paper's coverage of Gaza destruction. Credit, Michael M.
Santiago/Getty Images
* AI, Behavior and Human Destiny
* Mehdi Hasan Launching Media Company
* NYT On the Hot Seat
* Right Wing Media and Super Tuesday
* What’s Up With Internet Archive
* Platform Co-ops in Latin America
* Transforming Crime Coverage
* Building Startups in South LA
* SCOTUS and NetChoice
* Google Workers Want No Part of Israeli Tech Companies
AI, BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DESTINY
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By Michael Klare
TomDispatch
By combining AI with advanced robotics, the U.S. military and those of
other advanced powers are already hard at work creating an array of
self-guided “autonomous” weapons systems — combat drones that
can employ lethal force independently of any human officers meant to
command them. Such devices include a variety of military vehicles
capable of autonomous operation.
MEHDI HASAN LAUNCHING MEDIA COMPANY
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By Mark Joyella
Forbes
Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan says his new digital media
company, Zeteo, will give him a platform “from which to speak
bluntly about racism, fascism, genocide and more.” Zeteo, Hasan
says, is an ancient Greek word that means “to seek out, to inquire,
to get to the truth.”
NYT ON THE HOT SEAT
* MANUFACTURING CONSENT FOR GAZA GENOCIDE
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The Indypendent
* TARGETING STAFF FOR THEIR BACKGROUNDS
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By Sanjana Karanth, HuffPost
* “NEW YORK WAR CRIMES”
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By Maya Pontone and Rhea Nayyar, Hyperallergic
RIGHT WING MEDIA AND SUPER TUESDAY
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By Cameron Joseph
Columbia Journalism Review
Charlie Sykes, a former conservative radio host who split with the
movement over Trump, says Super Tuesday will end media time for
non-Trump conservatives. “In order to stay economically viable in
the right-wing media ecosystem," he warned. "at some point you’re
going to have to make your peace with Trump.”
WHAT’S UP WITH INTERNET ARCHIVE
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By Bette Adriaanse
Jacobin
The ongoing legal battle between the Internet Archive, an online
library, and the Big Four publishers over licensing and copyright
should concern everyone. At stake in the dispute is the possibility of
free access to knowledge for all.
PLATFORM CO-OPS IN LATIN AMERICA
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By Atahualpa Blanchet
Equal Times
Platform cooperativism is a model of worker association that uses new
technologies to ensure the well-being of workers rather than exploit
them through algorithmic mechanisms of control. It fuses cooperative
principles with platform technology in order to develop fairer, more
sustainable and solidarity-based initiatives in an increasingly
digitised and automated economy.
TRANSFORMING CRIME COVERAGE
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By Amy Kroin
Free Press
As the News Voices: Philadelphia program manager, Cassie Owens has
helped lead efforts to dismantle structural racism at local news
outlets and imagine a new kind of reporting, one that centers
community members’ voices and information needs.
BUILDING STARTUPS IN SOUTH LA
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By Ron Miller
TechCrunch
The goal for Plug In South LA is to smooth the way for Black and
brown entrepreneurs looking to build tech startups and need help and
guidance. That could help them become not just successful businesses,
but people who help build wealth and create jobs in areas often left
behind by startup ecosystems.
SCOTUS AND NETCHOICE
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By Lauren Feiner
The Verge
The justices seemed largely skeptical of the most sweeping provisions
in Florida’s and Texas’ social media laws, which would force
certain tech platforms to carry speech even when they don’t want to.
But they also looked for the boundaries of tech companies’ First
Amendment rights.
GOOGLE WORKERS WANT NO PART OF ISRAELI TECH COMPANIES
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By Caroline Haskins
Wired
Hundreds of Google workers demand the company drop its sponsorship of
Mind the Tech, a conference in New York this week that promotes
Israeli tech companies.
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