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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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, European Digital Rights (EDRi)
* Smear Campaign Against FCC Nominee
* Mastodon Con and Pro
* What the News is Missing About Economics
* What the News is Missing About Antisemitism
* ChatGBT Accuracy
* Worker Surveillance is Backfiring
* Sundance 2023: Corporate vs Indie Docs
* Google Shares Data with Law Enforcement
* Media Whistling Past Antitrans Backlash
* Meta’s Laid-Back Approach to User Hacking
SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST FCC NOMINEE
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By Kevin Collier and Jason Abbruzzese
NBC News
Gigi Sohn, who was first nominated in October 2021 to complete the
FCC’s lineup of five commissioners, was recently the target of
articles that sought to connect her work with a leading digital rights
group to sex trafficking and a dominatrix. Sohn is on the board of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, a widely respected nonprofit that
advocates for privacy and free expression online.
MASTODON CON AND PRO
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By Megan McArdle, Lincoln Journal Star
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Schulman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
WHAT THE NEWS IS MISSING ABOUT ECONOMICS
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By Emily Russell
Columbia Journalism Review
Rana Foroohar, a global business columnist at the _Financial Times_,
talks about Davos, the broader state of business journalism, and
“the cult of the economist.”
WHAT THE NEWS IS MISSING ABOUT ANTISEMITISM
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By Mari Cohen
Jewish Currents
Articles about spiking antisemitism often contribute to an ahistorical
fearmongering that is likely to only deepen Jewish communities’
anxiety and make it harder to accurately assess antisemitic threats.
They tend to flatten a rich academic debate about the historical
nature of anti-Jewish activity into clichéd descriptions of
antisemitism as the “oldest hatred.”
CHATGBT ACCURACY
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By Harry McCracken
Fast Company
Whenever I chat with ChatGPT about any subject I know much about,
I’m struck by how untrustworthy it is. It’s prone to botching the
chronological order of events, conflating multiple people with similar
backgrounds, and—like an unprepared student—lobbing vague
pronouncements that don’t require it to know anything about the
topic at hand.
WORKER SURVEILLANCE IS BACKFIRING
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By Kate Morgan and Delaney Nolan
BBC
With the rise in remote work has come a surge in workplace monitoring
– some 2022 estimates posit the number of large firms monitoring
workers has doubled since the beginning of the pandemic. Some
monitoring programs record keystrokes or track computer activity by
taking periodic screenshots. Some programs even enable full remote
access to workers’ systems.
SUNDANCE 2023: CORPORATE VS INDIE DOCS
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By Anthony Kaufman
International Documentary Association
If Sundance is the bellwether of the business of U.S. documentary
film, it offered a glimmer of hope to filmmakers working largely
outside of the corporate and for-profit systems that have increasingly
dominated the nonfiction world. But making and selling documentary
films without a corporate partner or streamer already in place is
full of risks and requires prudence.
GOOGLE SHARES DATA WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT
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By Emily Baker
Boston Review
Law enforcement agencies are embracing technologies for which there
are few, if any, existing limits. Data-driven tools generate an
insatiable appetite for data—not only data specifically about
criminal activity, but data about _anything_—which is dramatically
expanding the scope of law enforcement scrutiny to individuals who
have no history of law enforcement contact.
MEDIA WHISTLING PAST ANTITRANS BACKLASH
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By Adam Johnson
Substack
Increasingly, our nominally objective reporters are falling into a pat
routine of euphemism, obfuscation, omission, and permitting of cynical
hate preachers to define their own movement in the vaguest, most
P.R.-shop language possible. There’s no mention of who they are
openly targeting, much less any effort to describe or make clear the
incitement effort itself.
META’S LAID-BACK APPROACH TO USER HACKING
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By Lizzie O’Leary
Slate
There is no reliable way to get a hacked Facebook or Instagram account
back. These accounts may hold a lifetime’s worth of pictures of
loved ones, or be the basis for an entire small business; when they
get hacked, it can feel like losing an appendage. So why doesn’t
Meta seem to care about the issue?
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