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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – JUNE 14, 2022  
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_ Right-wing media in lockstep with Trump’s coup, and more _

Working from home. Credit, Liviu Stanila

 

* Washpost’s Meltdown
* Celebs on a Mission From Bitcoin
* Facebook and the News Giants
* Musk’s Twitter Obsession
* How Right Wing Media Have Trump’s Back
* Mental Health Care Apps
* Online Racism Tsunami
* Between Journalism and TikTok
* Financial Times Hiding the Wealth Porn
* The Rise of Telework

WASHPOST’S MELTDOWN
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By Charlotte Klein
Vanity Fair

A flurry of Twitter flare-ups and Slack spats
involving _Post _journalists, along with a controversial suspension,
have upended the newsroom and are presenting a major test for
executive editor Sally Buzbee, who urged staff to “be constructive
and collegial.”

CELEBS ON A MISSION FROM BITCOIN
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By Kyndall Cunningham
The Daily Beast

Jay-Z and Jack Dorsey are enrolling people from Brooklyn’s Marcy
Houses in The Bitcoin Academy, including kids as young as 5, to teach
them about crypto.

FACEBOOK AND THE NEWS GIANTS
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By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams

Press freedom and antitrust advocates derided both Facebook and
corporate media beneficiaries of the tech titan's multimillion dollar
spending spree following reporting that the company is rethinking its
investments amid increasing regulatory pressures and a shift away from
news partnerships.

MUSK’S TWITTER OBSESSION
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By Avery Hartmans
Insider

Elon Musk has threatened to nix the Twitter deal over too many bots on
the platform. Here's why Musk is so fixated on fake accounts — and
why they're so tricky to measure.

HOW RIGHT WING MEDIA HAVE TRUMP’S BACK
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By Eric Kleefeld
Media Matters for America

Trump lawyer John Eastman’s seditious internal memo has now been
unearthed — but the coup had already been plotted in public, via
right-wing media outlets.

MENTAL HEALTH CARE APPS
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By Lauri Goldkind
Yes!

Over the past decade, digital access to therapy has become
increasingly common, in some cases replacing the traditional model of
in-person weekly sessions between a therapist and client. Apps for
mental health and wellness range from mood trackers, meditation tools,
and journals to therapy apps that match users to a licensed
professional. 

ONLINE RACISM TSUNAMI
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By Amanda Seitz
Associated Press

White nationalists and supremacists, on accounts often run by young
men, are building thriving, macho communities across social media
platforms like Instagram and TikTok, evading detection with coded
hashtags and innuendo. Snarky memes and trendy videos are riling up
thousands of followers on divisive issues including abortion, guns,
immigration and LGBTQ rights. 

BETWEEN JOURNALISM AND TIKTOK
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By Lena Wilson
Columbia Journalism Review

On TikTok, individual personalities are taken at face value, their
versions of events accepted without any editorial oversight or even
citation. In journo-world, TikTok is woefully underused as a platform
for spreading information, despite its formidable reach. And as we
all know, audiences are increasingly turning to social media—not
journalistic outlets themselves—for their news.

FINANCIAL TIMES HIDING THE WEALTH PORN
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By Shawn McCreesh
New York Magazine

The conservative elite paper is nervous about pandering too obviously
to luxury junkies.

THE RISE OF TELEWORK
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By Nazaret Castro
Equal Times

During the pandemic, working from home became a necessity, leading to
an unprecedented increase in the number of people working from home.
According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), at least 23
million people in Latin America and the Caribbean alone have switched
to telework, while some 560 million have done so worldwide. 

* The Washington Post
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* Bitcoin
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* Jay-Z
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* Jack Dorsey
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* Facebook
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* news media
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* Elon Musk
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* twitter
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* Donald Trump
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* right wing media
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* mental health
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* white supremacy
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* social media
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* TikTok
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* Financial Times
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* telework
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