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* UN: Digital Space Needs a Feminist Revolution
* Banning TikTok
* Is Fox News Finished?
* Automated Influencers
* 20 Years of Brasil de Fato
* DeSantis’s Media Dystopia
* Apple vs ChatGPT
* An Ominous Law in Utah
* Introducing L!NX
* Is Software a Means of Production?
UN: DIGITAL SPACE NEEDS A FEMINIST REVOLUTION
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
According to UN Women, 85 percent of women have witnessed digital
violence against other women, while 38 percent of women have
personally experienced online violence. Women are 27 times more
likely to be abused online than men.
BANNING TIKTOK [[link removed]]
By Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams
Data privacy and free speech advocates sounded the
alarm about “hypocrisy and censorship” as U.S. House Republicans
pushed for a bill to effectively ban TikTok, a video-sharing
platform created by the Chinese company ByteDance, across the
country. Meanwhile, the U.S.-based group Fight for the Future
launched a #DontBanTikTok campaign opposing the bill (H.R. 1153).
IS FOX NEWS FINISHED?
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By Chauncey DeVega
Salon
Fox News is a brand that fully captured its target audience by
creating an alternative reality for them that satisfies their basic
human needs, especially community and validation and a larger system
of meaning. In an American society where loneliness is a public health
crisis, the importance of such feelings and emotions cannot be
underestimated.
AUTOMATED INFLUENCERS
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By Samuel Woolley
Slate
Many regular folks hold down a range of normal-seeming day jobs while
running fairly complex influence campaigns on their own time. They do
it simply because they want to—because they believe in the causes,
politics, and viewpoints they are spreading, and they want to give
them a wider currency.
20 YEARS OF BRASIL DE FATO
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By Nicolau Shares
Brasil de Fato
On January 25, 2003, 7,000 participants in the World Social Forum in
Porto Alegre, in the south of Brazil, gathered for a historic event:
the launch of Brasil de Fato, a pioneering journalistic
initiative. Discussions started in 2002 in a national collective that
included representatives of popular movements, unions, political
parties and leftist organizations, besides key journalists of the
alternative press.
DESANTIS’S MEDIA DYSTOPIA
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By Kyle Pope
Columbia Journalism Review
Ron DeSantis urged Florida’s Republican-controlled state legislature
to consider a slate of breathtaking anti-press measures. The proposals
include lowering the threshold for when a public figure can sue a
media outlet. In a serious threat to investigative reporting, comments
made by anonymous sources in news stories would be _presumed
false_ for the purposes of defamation lawsuits.
APPLE VS CHATGPT
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By Aaron Tilley
Wall Street Journal
Apple Inc. has delayed the approval of an email-app
update with AI-powered language tools over concerns that it could
generate inappropriate content for children, according to
communications Apple sent to the app maker. The software developer
disagrees with Apple’s decision.
AN OMINOUS LAW IN UTAH
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By Kim Bojórquez and Erin Alberty
Axis
Utah is poised to pass a law restricting children and teens under age
18 from using social media without their parent's consent. Meanwhile,
adults could lose access to their accounts, too, if they refuse to
verify their age. The proposed legislation comes as experts and
policymakers nationwide are warning about the mental health
consequences social media may have on young users.
INTRODUCING L!NX [[link removed]]
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
L!NX is the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s new digital learning
platform for self-learners and multipliers/educators in search of
basic political content - with a critical eye and from a left-wing
perspective. With interactive, multimedia and short formats, we want
to establish a platform where it is possible to take the first steps
in political education autonomously.
Is Software a Means of Production?
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By Shane Burley
Verso Books
Software is a product like any other, created to drive sales and
profit, scraped together from surplus value. But it can also create
other commodities, other pieces of software, even to the point of
self-replication through Artificial Intelligence. Marx could not have
foreseen it when writing _Capital_, but it is in line with the growth
of an inherent contradiction in capitalism.
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