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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – AUGUST 20, 2024  
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August 20, 2024
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_ What's ahead for Google? _

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* Fixing Google
* FCC and Deepfakes
* Digital Apartheid in Gaza
* LGBTQ+ on Public Media
* White Nationalists’ Immigration Surveillance
* AI Straining the Grid
* Misinfo Worse for Spanish Speakers
* Utah Mulls Social Media Age Limits
* Covering the War: The Cost in Blood
* Looking for Comics at the Whitney Biennial

FIXING GOOGLE
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By Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic

The court could order Google to sell off parts of its business, like
its ad-tech stack, through which it represents both
buyers _and _sellers in a marketplace it owns, and with whom it
competes as a buyer and a seller. There's already proposed, bipartisan
legislation to do this (how bipartisan? Its two main co-sponsors are
Ted Cruz and Elizabeth Warren!)

FCC AND DEEPFAKES
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By Julia Conley
Common Dreams

A week after the Federal Elections Commission announced it would not
take action to regulate artificial intelligence-generated
“deepfakes” in political ads, more than 40 civil society groups
called on the Federal Communications Commission to step in to ensure
U.S. voters will be informed about fake content used by campaigns as
they prepare to go to the polls.

DIGITAL APARTHEID IN GAZA
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By Paige Collings and Starchy Grant
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Without greater transparency, the public cannot tell whether
U.S.-based companies like Google and Amazon are complying with human
rights standards—both those set by the United Nations and those
they have publicly set for themselves. We need the truth about use
of their technologies in Gaza so that everyone can see whether their
human rights commitments were real.

LGBTQ+ ON PUBLIC MEDIA
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By Aja Hannah
Current

Documentaries and other programs about LGBT issues can still be found
on public TV and local public radio stations. But producers attribute
the decline of such programming to the growth of gay representation in
other media and a shift in the political climate.

WHITE NATIONALISTS’ IMMIGRATION SURVEILLANCE
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By Helen Santoro
Jacobin

An anti-immigration nonprofit with ties to hate groups,
NumbersUSA, is pushing GOP lawmakers to expand the use of a
government website, E-Verify, designed to screen workers’
immigration status.

AI STRAINING THE GRID
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By Ayse Coskun
The Conversation

Data centers have had continuous growth for decades, but the magnitude
of growth in the still-young era of large language models has been
exceptional. AI requires a lot more computational and data storage
resources than the pre-AI rate of data center growth could provide.

MISINFO WORSE FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS
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By Jessica J. González and Amy Kroin
Free Press

Spanish speakers are spending more time online and more time searching
for culturally relevant news — but are finding less information
that meets their civic-information needs. They’re also feeling the
effects of social-media companies’ lack of investment in
Spanish-language content moderation. This means that more hate, more
lies and more harassment are getting through to them.

UTAH MULLS SOCIAL MEDIA AGE LIMITS
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By Emily Anderson Stern
The Salt Lake Tribune

As Utah’s children head back to school, the social media platforms
they use to connect with friends have another deadline looming: They
have until Oct. 1 to make sweeping changes to their websites to rein
in kids’ use of their services — and, lawmakers say, limit social
media’s negative mental health consequences — or face thousands of
dollars in fines.

COVERING THE WAR: THE COST IN BLOOD
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By Mohamed Mandour, Doja Daoud, Ignacio Miguel Delgado
Culebras and Samir Alsharif
Committee to Protect Journalists

In addition to the growing tally of journalists killed and injured,
CPJ’s research has found multiple kinds of incidents of journalists
being targeted while carrying out their work in Israel and the two
Palestinian territories, Gaza and the West Bank. These include 52
arrests, as well as numerous assaults, threats, cyberattacks, and
censorship. 

Looking for Comics at the Whitney Biennial
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By Sean McCarthy
The Comics Journal

While the biennial has often included comics-adjacent work over the
last couple decades, the only comics I could find among the 26,000+
works in the Whitney’s online collection database were one each by
Chris Ware, Karl Wirsum, and Jim Shaw. Meanwhile, the representation
of AI-generated work within the collection, the Biennial, and even
solo shows at the museum, continues to grow.

* Google
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* antitrust
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* FCC
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* deepfakes
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* Big Tech
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* Gaza
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* LGBTQ
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* public media
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* white nationalists
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* Immigrants
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* Digital Surveillance
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* artificial intelligence
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* misinformation
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* Latinos & Hispanics
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* age restrictions
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* social media
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* Utah
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* Journalists
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* Violence
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* censorship
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* Comic Art
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* Artists
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* Whitney Biennial
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