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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – JANUARY 21, 2025  
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January 21, 2025
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_ Media in galloping retreat _

, Ruben Bolling

 

* Free Our Feeds
* Media in Galloping Retreat
* How to Protect Your Meta Data
* TikTok and RedNote
* AI Fans the LA Flames
* Trump’s Crypto Grift
* Immigration News Source Getting Ready
* Boss Bezos Reins In the _Post_
* Shake-up at MSNBC
* Palestinian Filmmakers Tell Their Truth

FREE OUR FEEDS
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By Aisha Malik
TechCrunch

A group of international tech entrepreneurs and advocates
has launched a campaign to protect social media from the control and
influence of billionaires. The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to
protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and
leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be
controlled by a single person or company, including Bluesky itself.

MEDIA IN GALLOPING RETREAT
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By Chris Lehman
The Nation

After journalists have documented a long series of unprecedented
abuses of executive power under the presidency of a Roy Cohn protégé
setting policy on a broad Mob-like calculus of punishment and tribal
exclusion, media managers are sizing up the prospect of a resurgent
MAGA siege of power with the wan shrug of practiced brand managers. 

HOW TO PROTECT YOUR META DATA
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By Lena Cohen
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Meta tracks your activity across millions of websites and apps,
regardless of whether you use its platforms, and it profits from that
data through targeted ads. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to
collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to
know.

TIKTOK AND REDNOTE

 • NOW YOU SEE IT
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  By David Shepardson, Reuters 

 • WHAT’S UP WITH REDNOTE
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  By Jianqing Chen, The Conversation
 

AI FANS THE LA FLAMES
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By Schuyler Mitchell
Truth-out

It’s worth revisiting one of the major water-guzzling industries
that’s hastening future crises from California’s own backyard:
artificial intelligence (AI).

Trump’s Crypto Grift
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By Becca Bratcher
Forbes 

Crypto politics collide with digital finance as Trump’s meme coin
launch triggers a volatile market reaction, polarizing industry
watchers and prompting regulatory caution. In the hours after
launching, $TRUMP coin reached a market cap of $13.6 billion, with
its fully diluted valuation soaring to roughly $67.6 billion. Then,
less than 48 hours after launch, the coin began a steep decline.

IMMIGRATION NEWS SOURCE GETTING READY
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By Lauren Watson
Columbia Journalism Review

“So what happens if the community is asking for content, or has a
concern, that is not very comfortable for us? Immigrant communities
are just as susceptible to the same mainstream issues of media wanting
to reaffirm their worldview. How do you challenge that and serve them
at the same time? Those are the things we’re grappling with.”

BOSS BEZOS REINS IN THE _POST_
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By Parker Molloy
The New Republic

The _Post_ is ironically citing Eugene Meyer’s 1935 principles for
the paper, including, “The newspaper’s duty is to its readers and
to the public at large, and not to the private interests of its
owners.” It’s a noble sentiment. It’s also completely at odds
with everything else in this corporate rebranding exercise.

SHAKE-UP AT MSNBC
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By Alex Weprin
The Hollywood Reporter

Staff at the channel had been dealing with the agita that comes along
with a change in ownership, wondering what the spin off to SpinCo will
mean. Would MSNBC lose its brand or identity? What would happen to the
news hours? Where would it be based?

PALESTINIAN FILMMAKERS TELL THEIR TRUTH
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By Matt Minton
The Progressive

_From Ground Zero_ is a collection of twenty-two short films from
Palestinian directors, all shot in Gaza during Israel’s attacks
since October 7, 2023. Shortly after the war started,
Rashid Masharawi came up with the anthology idea and opened up
submissions to filmmakers and artists across the region to submit
their work. Out of the fifty submissions, he chose twenty-two.

* Free Our Feeds
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* Bluesky
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* Meta
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* Media Bias
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* Make America Great Again
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* TikTok
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* RedNote
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* artificial intelligence
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* Los Angeles wildfires
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* video game workers
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* Microsoft
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* Communications Workers of America
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* Immigration
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* Documented
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* The Washington Post
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* Jeff Bezos
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* MSNBC
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* Palestinians
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* filmmakers
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* From Ground Zero
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