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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – MARCH 20, 2024
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_ Who’s afraid of TikTok? _
, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
* Election Misinfo
* Who’s Afraid of TikTok?
* Videogame Workers Get a Union
* NYT Unfair to Workers… and Readers
* Knee-Bending at The Guardian
* Troll Buster Shafiqah Hudson 1978-2024
* Picking Apart _Starship Troopers_
* The Left’s Media Watchdog
* How to Verify a Data Breach
* AI Health Care Chatbots
ELECTION MISINFO
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By Josh Richman and Nathan Sheard
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Even well-meaning efforts to control election misinformation through
regulation inevitably end up silencing a range of dissenting voices
and hindering the ability to challenge ingrained systems of
oppression. While platforms and regulators struggle to get it right,
internet users must be vigilant about checking the election
information they receive for accuracy.
WHO’S AFRAID OF TIKTOK?
* CHINA SKULLDUGGERY?
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By Shaomin Li, The Conversation
* BAD NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS
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By Cameron Joseph, Columbia Journalism Review
VIDEOGAME WORKERS GET A UNION
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By Vikki Blake
Euro Gamer
600 Activision Blizzard quality assurance (QA) workers have voted to
unionise with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) to form
Activision Quality Assurance United - CWA. Of the 398 votes submitted,
just eight voted not to unionise. Microsoft – which acquired
Activision Blizzard last year for $69bn
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voluntarily agreed to recognise the union, making it the largest game
union in the US.
NYT UNFAIR TO WORKERS… AND READERS
* WAGE THEFT
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By Natalie Korach, The Wrap
* PIMPING FOR WALMART
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By Alex N. Cross, Jacobin
* WHAT’S UP WITH THE COVERAGE?
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By Dan Froomkin, Press Watchers
KNEE-BENDING AT THE GUARDIAN
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By Rivkah Brown
Novara Media
For having started her career as an unflinching author-activist,
someone who appeared to be centring her journalism on the Palestinian
struggle, Katharine Viner has since ascended to one of the most
powerful positions in global media. According to Guardian journalists,
the ascent has changed her – and how a paper that sees itself as a
beacon of liberalism has covered “a textbook case of genocide”.
TROLL BUSTER SHAFIQAH HUDSON 1978-2024
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Lipstick Alley
Ms. Hudson set out to combat what she quickly realized was a
coordinated action by trolls. She began to aggregate the trollers’
posts under her own hashtag #YourSlipIsShowing. She began to
aggregate the trollers’ posts under it, and encouraged others to do
so and to block the fake accounts. Her Twitter community took up the
mission, including Black feminists and scholars.
PICKING APART _STARSHIP TROOPERS_
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By Jordan Pearson
Vice
It’s futile to argue with people who have already decided to
gleefully celebrate fascism, but having re-watched the film this
weekend, there is one element that people on both sides ignore: its
strange psychic subplot. This puzzling inclusion, which wasn’t
explicitly in the original novel, holds the key to the film’s
message.
THE LEFT’S MEDIA WATCHDOG
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By Craig Aaron
Free Press
You can’t have a free society without a credible press system. The
Framers took that very seriously from the very beginning, with the
postal subsidies that really spawned our press system. The name Free
Press, we thought, would draw attention to the politics of setting up
a press system. That the media was a legitimate political issue, and
we had to take it seriously by demanding a “Free Press.”
HOW TO VERIFY A DATA BREACH
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By Zack Whittaker
TechCrunch
Every data breach is different and requires a unique approach to
determine the validity of the data. Verifying a data breach as
authentic will require using different tools and techniques, and
looking for clues that can help identify where the data came from.
AI HEALTH CARE CHATBOTS
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By Thalia Beaty
Associated Press
Myna Mahila Foundation, a women’s organization in Mumbai, is
developing running on OpenAI’s ChatGPT model. Komal Vilas Thatkare
asks the Myna Bolo chatbot questions and it offers answers. The
chatbot draws on a customized database of medical information about
sexual health, but the chatbot’s potential success relies on test
users like Thatkare to train it.
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* misinformation
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* TikTok
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* China
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* Congress
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* video games
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* Activision QA
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* new york times
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* The Guardian
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* Israel-Gaza War
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* Shafiqah Hudson
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* Starship Troopers
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* Free Press
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* Walmart
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* NewsGuild
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* data breaches
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* artificial intelligence
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* Health Care
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