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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – JULY 8, 2025
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_ All the President’s tech _
, Clay Jones
* The Dark Enlightenment
* CBS Grovels to POTUS
* NYT: Knives Out Attack on Mamdani
* Social Media and Protest Summer
* ICEBlock App
* AI and Bias
* The System Works For Soham Parekh
* The Film Industry’s Cowardice on Palestine
* Media Matters Sues FTC
* Bill Moyers
THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT
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By Rebecca Gordon
TomDispatch
Government agencies have many ways of keeping tabs on us today. The
advent of cellular technology has made it so much easier to track
where any of us have been, simply by triangulating the locations of
the cell towers our phones have pinged along the way. Even TV
detectives can locate a private video camera with a sightline to the
crime and get its owner to turn over the digital data.
CBS GROVELS TO POTUS
• $16M EXTORTION PAYOFF
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By Harry Litman, Talking Feds
• IT GETS WORSE
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By Li Zhou, Huffpost
NYT: KNIVES OUT ATTACK ON MAMDANI
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By Liam Scott
Columbia Journalism Review
_The New York Times_ published a story that cited hacked documents at
Columbia University showing that New York Democratic mayoral
nominee Zohran Mamdani identified as “Black or African American”
on his college application. The paper granted the source of the
hacked documents anonymity. That person is a known enthusiast of race
science.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND PROTEST SUMMER
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By John Herrman
New York Magazine
This week’s protests have been visible on social media, but their
portrayals are fragmented, strange, and to people on the ground, often
absurdly divorced from reality. If social media used to work for
activists, or at least _could_,_ _now it’s more effectively used
against them.
ICEBLOCK APP
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By Claire Duffy
CNN
Joshua Aaron has worked in and around the tech industry for around two
decades. He built his first app — a blackjack game — at computer
camp when he was 13. His newest app is designed for a very different
purpose: to let users alert people nearby to sightings of Immigration
and Customs Enforcement agents in their area.
AI AND BIAS
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By Andrew Deck
Nieman Lab
A new policy at Law360, the legal news service owned by LexisNexis,
requires that every story pass through an AI-powered “bias”
detection tool before publication. The policy was announced after an
executive accused the newsroom of (negative) bias in its Trump
administration coverage.
THE SYSTEM WORKS FOR SOHAM PAREKH
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By Amanda Silberling
TechCrunch
You got into Y Combinator, raised $20 million from a16z, and then
exited to Meta? That’s cool, I guess. But did Soham Parekh apply to
work at your startup? There is now a new badge of honor for startup
founders: your proximity to one previously unknown Indian software
engineer named Soham Parekh.
THE FILM INDUSTRY’S COWARDICE ON PALESTINE
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By David Ehrlich
IndieWire
In a bleeding-heart business that prides itself on the sensitivity it
brings to difficult stories, a business in which people are regularly
festooned with awards for shining a light on the darkest corners of
human civilization, the Palestinian genocide has become uniquely
taboo.
MEDIA MATTERS SUES FTC
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By Jack Nicastro
Reason
Undeterred by federal courts striking down lawsuits on Media
Matters’ reporting, the FTC issued a sweeping civil investigative
demand (CID) to the nonprofit that probes the nonprofit's finances,
editorial process, newsgathering activities, and affiliations. Media
Matters argues that the commission's CID falls outside the scope of
its authority.
BILL MOYERS
• THE LEGENDARY JOURNALIST SPOKE TRUTH TO POWER
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By John Nichols, The Nation
• HE SHOWED WHAT PUBLIC TV COULD BE
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By Julie Hollar, FAIR
• BREAKING MEDIA CLIMATE SILENCE
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By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope, Columbia Journalism Review
• WHAT THE OBITS MISSED
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By Monika Bauerlein, Mother Jones
* surveillance state
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* CBS
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* 60 Minutes
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* paramount
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* Donald Trump
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* new york times
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* Zohran Mamdani
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* social media
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* Protest
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* Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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* ICEBlock
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* Law360
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* artificial intelligence
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* bias
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* Soham Parekh
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* Palestine
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* movies
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* Bill Moyers
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