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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – FEBRUARY 18, 2025  
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, Electronic Frontier Foundation

 

* Using Media to Fight 
* Keeping Government Data Online
* The Antoinette Lattouf Termination Case
* Suing DOGE
* What We’ve Learned from Bluesky’s Rise
* The AP Ban and Free Speech
* New FCC Chief’s Agenda
* Moment of Truth for NPR and PBS
* Washington Post Kills ‘Fire Musk’ Ad
* Countering Disinfo: Curiosity is Key

USING MEDIA TO FIGHT
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By Dan Froomkin
Heads Up News

We should reach out and make connections with others, help them when
we can, and protect them when it’s necessary. Those are wonderful
aspirations, but they are a bit vague. So in addition to pointing you
toward some great resources, I’ve put together an eclectic list of
somewhat more concrete things you can do to resist the Trump agenda.

KEEPING GOVERNMENT DATA ONLINE
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By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen
Columbia Journalism Review

Journalists are in a position to spotlight the changes and deletions
of federal data and who may profit from them. Some newsrooms have even
jumped into the archival action themselves.

THE ANTOINETTE LATTOUF TERMINATION CASE
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By Michelle Mini
Independent Australia

Democratic freedoms, employee rights and public trust in the national
broadcaster are all on trial in ‘Antoinette Lattouf v Australian
Broadcasting Corporation’ trial._ _Lattouf, who is of Arab descent,
believes she was sacked from her role as an ABC radio presenter
because of her race and the fact that she publicly opposed
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

SUING DOGE
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By Jason Kelley
Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit
today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of
Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of
millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel
Management (OPM), and to delete any data that has been collected or
removed from databases thus far. 

WHAT WE’VE LEARNED FROM BLUESKY’S RISE
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By Ryan Cooper
The American Prospect

One bright spot in the bleak year of 2024 was the rise of Bluesky. As
someone who relied greatly on Twitter for news and my career—OK, I
may have been somewhat addicted—before Elon Musk bought it and
turned it into a snake pit of neo-Nazi filth, it was nice to see a
Twitter-like replacement rise to relative prominence.

THE AP BAN AND FREE SPEECH
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By Rex Huppke
USA TODAY 

The AP serves a global audience. President Donald Trump can call the
Gulf of Mexico what he wants, but that doesn’t mean the world has to
follow suit, and the AP is right to not cave to a faux-patriotic
president’s lame-brained attempt at branding.

NEW FCC CHIEF’S AGENDA
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By Yanni Chen
Free Press

As a sitting commissioner, Brendan Carr didn’t have to go through
the Senate confirmation process when then-President-elect Donald Trump
tapped him to serve as chairman of the Federal Communications
Commission. Carr has been staking out increasingly extreme and harmful
positions over the past year or so in a transparent bid for the
chairmanship in a Trump administration. 

MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR NPR AND PBS
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By Michael Swerdlow
Columbia Journalism Review

For better or worse, public and government action is needed to
ensure the necessary and consistent level of investment in
journalism. But the current model for funding public broadcasting is
broken.

_Washington Post_ Kills ‘Fire Musk’ Ad
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By Alexander Bolton
The Hill

_The Washington Post_ this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk”
advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday
 editions, according to Common Cause. The group said it signed a
$115,000 agreement with the Post to run the ad that would have covered
the front and back page of the Tuesday paper, as well as a full-page
ad with the same theme inside the paper. 

COUNTERING DISINFO: CURIOSITY IS KEY
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By Kurt Sampsel and Mónica Guzmán
PEN America

Practicing curiosity – which involves suspending certainty,
questioning our judgments and our conclusions, and exercising humility
in a culture that seems to want us to walk around with confidence –
is the key to unlocking clear views of what’s really dividing
us. It’s also extremely important for building trust where trust
has dried up.

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* government data
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* DOGE
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* Electronic Frontier Foundation
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* Common Cause
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