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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – AUGUST 9, 2022  
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_ Mass media as stepping stone—three talking heads who lie their
way to political dominance _

Amazon workers near Coalville, UK talk to management after walking
out over a meager pay increase. Credit, LeistershireLive

 

* Instagram Backlash
* AI and Internet Ethics
* Washington’s 5G Sanctions
* Global South Media Bits
* Trump to Sue CNN: “What Big Lie?”
* Amazon Workers in the UK Walk Out
* Streaming Royalties: Rashida to the Rescue
* Talking Heads and Politics
* Whiting Out Abortion Info
* Greenwashing: BP’s Online Ads

INSTAGRAM BACKLASH
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By Christianna Silva
Mashable

Over the past few weeks, what started as a complaint a decade ago has
become a chorus of fury. Users are tired of Instagram and its parent
company Meta copying the features of other apps. 

AI AND INTERNET ETHICS
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By Matt Murphy
The Wire

A YouTuber in the AI community trained an AI language model called
“GPT-4chan” to give misogynistic responses to questions. This
suggests that many people will be able to use and expand on this AI
that espouses hate speech – and that got the attention of the AI
ethics community. 

WASHINGTON’S 5G SANCTIONS
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By Hosuk Lee-Makiyama and Robin Baker
Asia Times

Sanctions and embargoes are precarious policy tools that can lead to
inadvertent consequences without careful targeting, planning and
coordination. In the absence of focussed application, Washington’s
attempts to break China’s 5G dominance may have helped Beijing to
strengthen its grip on the sector.

GLOBAL SOUTH MEDIA BITS

* AFRICA
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By Phillip Dexter and Roscoe Palm, Common Dreams
 
* ASIA
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  By Pauline Leong, Fulcrum
 
* LATIN AMERICA
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  By Lorenzo Vargas, rabble

TRUMP TO SUE CNN: “WHAT BIG LIE?”
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By Jeremy Bailey
The Wrap

His lawyers insist in a letter to the network that he simply believes
it. As far-fetched as it may seem, the threat comes less than a month
after two Supreme Court Justices raised the stakes when they made it
known they want to reconsider the First Amendment precedent that set
actual malice as the libel standard for public figures.

AMAZON WORKERS IN THE UK WALK OUT
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By Morgan Meaker
Wired

Frustration at a 3 percent pay increase drove a crowd of employees to
stop work and protest in the warehouse’s cafeteria. The union GMB,
which represents some Amazon employees in the UK, estimated that
between 700 and 1,000 people took part and said that protests in
Tilbury continued the next day, when workers at warehouses in Coventry
and Bristol also walked off the job.

STREAMING ROYALTIES: RASHIDA TO THE RESCUE
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By Brian Heater
TechCrunch

Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib is putting together a resolution aimed at
establishing a royalty program to provide musicians adequate
compensation via royalties on per-stream basis. Tlaib says her team
worked closely with the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers on
penning a draft of the resolution.

TALKING HEADS AND POLITICS

* KARI LAKE
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  By Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review
 
* CHRIS CUOMO
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  By Nolan Higdon, Salon
 
* TUCKER CARLSON
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  By Sophie Lawton, Media Matters for America

WHITING OUT ABORTION INFO
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By Katharine Trendacosta
Electronic Frontier Foundation

Reports have surfaced about the removal of information about abortion
from social media. Unfortunately, none of it is unprecedented.
Platforms like Facebook and Instagram have long maintained broad and
vague community standards that allow them to remove content with
little recourse.

GREENWASHING: BP’S ONLINE ADS
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By Thomas Lewton
The Guardian

BP has spent more than £800,000 on social media influence ads in the
UK this year that champion the company’s investments in green
energy. The company paid about £570,000 to Facebook and Instagram for
influence ads that reached tens of millions of viewers in the UK.

* Instagram
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* artificial intelligence
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* Sanctions
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* China
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* Washington DC
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* 5G
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* Southeast Asia
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* content moderation
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* social media
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* South Africa
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* Neoliberalism
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* Latin America
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* New Pink Tide
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* Donald Trump
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* CNN
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* Amazon
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* Amazon Workers; Union Organizing
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* United Kingdom
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* streaming
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* royalties
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* Rashida Tlaib
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* Kari Lake
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* Tucker Carlson
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* Chris Cuomo
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* abortion
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* Meta
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* Facebook
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* BP
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* greenwashing
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