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* NBC Drops a Hot Potato After Staff Revolt
* Apple Antitrust Suit
* Cleveland Plain Dealer Editor Won’t Lie for MAGA
* Trailblazing Women In Digital Media
* Data Transparency for AI
* Palestinian Film Directors Confront the Horror
* Killer Bots AI Upgrade
* Fate of a Sports Website
* Comics, the State and Disinfo
* Gary Younge Explains It to Us

NBC DROPS A HOT POTATO AFTER STAFF REVOLT
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By Cameron Joseph
Columbia Journalism Review

NBC’s hiring of former Republican National Committee chairwoman
Ronna McDaniel earlier this week, was followed by a very public staff
revolt led by top on-air talent—and, ultimately, a reversal of the
hire. What’s most interesting is what it says about a broader
struggle within journalism in the Trump era. 

APPLE ANTITRUST SUIT
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By Nicole Narea
Vox

The Biden administration filed a sweeping antitrust
lawsuit against Apple Thursday that targets a product that has been
the major revenue driver for the company’s $2.76 trillion business:
the iPhone. Apple was one of the last remaining big tech companies
that had yet to be hit with an antitrust suit of this magnitude:
There are also pending suits against Facebook parent Meta, Amazon,
and Google.

CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER EDITOR WON’t LIE FOR MAGA
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By Chris Quinn
Cleveland Plain Dealer

The facts involving Trump are crystal clear, and as news people, we
cannot pretend otherwise, as unpopular as that might be with a segment
of our readers. There aren’t two sides to facts. We understand what
a privilege it is to be welcomed into the lives of the millions of
people who visit our platforms each month for news, sports and
entertainment. But our duty is to the truth.

TRAILBLAZING WOMEN IN DIGITAL MEDIA
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By Jennifer Acree
Forbes

Women’s History Month is a good time to to acknowledge and
celebrate the remarkable contributions of female innovators,
disruptors and changemakers.

DATA TRANSPARENCY FOR AI
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By Jacquelyn Melinek
TechCrunch

As AI proliferates and things on the internet are easier to
manipulate, there’s a need more than ever to make sure data and
brands are verifiable. The now-defunct crypto exchange FTX
was manipulating its books internally and misleading investors.
It’s akin to making a query to a database for financial records, but
manipulating it inside their own database.

PALESTINIAN FILM DIRECTORS CONFRONT THE HORROR
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By Nick Vivarelli
Variety

As hopes of reaching a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip flicker,
Palestinian directors are grappling with despair while questioning how
their art can better convey the suffering of Palestinians. Elia
Souleiman said the time has come “to take responsibility, and a
moral and ethical position, on what films enable us to discuss about
genocides, massacres and horrible violence around the world.”

KILLER BOTS AI UPGRADE
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By Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams

Deploying lethal weapons that rely on artificial intelligence (AI) in
battlefield conditions necessarily means inserting them into novel
conditions for which they have not been programmed, an invitation for
disastrous outcomes.

WHY THE TIKTOK BAN IS A TERRIBLE IDEA
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By Amy Kroin
Free Press

The legislation is built on misconceptions about how TikTok operates.
Worse, it does nothing to protect people’s privacy or blunt the
widespread manipulation users face across platforms, including those
owned and headquartered in the United States.

FATE OF A SPORTS WEBSITE
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By Ernie Smith
Tedium

The domain for _Deadspin_ was purchased a mere five days ago. It was
such an unlikely situation, and such an obscure company,
that _AdWeek_ initially mistook the purchaser for another company
with the same name. While I do not have an answer as to
who _Deadspin_’s new owners are, I do have some interesting
takeaways from this journey that may lead to the answer.

COMICS, THE STATE AND DISINFO
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By Juan Elman
openDemocracy

With the 2024 elections looming, the Department of Homeland Security
has a little-noticed weapon in its war on disinformation: comic
books. The comics read like well-meaning (if corny) attempts to
grapple with efforts by foreign governments to influence American
public opinion, as articulated in intelligence community assessments.

GARY YOUNGE EXPLAINS IT TO US
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By Bron Maher
PressGazette

Journalist Gary Younge has warned that the narrow range of most
British journalists’ backgrounds means it takes “a seismic
event” for journalists to take an interest in problems that are for
many people everyday realities. “When political figures or moments
emerge that make them feel uncomfortable or that they don’t like,
they subject it not to analysis but parody.”

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