York* – The Guardian Twitter and Facebook need to be more transparent about how they choose who gets censored The enforcement of policies on content moderation by popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, is a continuously contentious topic. Particularly so…
Grynbaum – The New York Times Defamation cases have made waves across an uneasy right-wing media landscape, from Fox to Newsmax. In just a few weeks, lawsuits and legal threats from a pair of obscure election technology companies have achieved what years of advertising boycotts…
By Kari Paul* – The Guardian Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enough Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO, announced last week the platform will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups…
By Sue Stephenson * – Wall Street International Magazine The entire process of how books are chosen is too secretive considering its societal impact The books we read influence our thinking and our opinions—sometimes for generations. Yet as readers and writers, we know so little…
By Glauco Benigni* “Electric speed mingles the cultures of prehistory with the dregs of industrial marketeers, the non-literate with the semiliterate and the post literate. Mental breakdown of varying degrees is the very common result of uprooting and inundation with…
Opinion, by Robert Reich* – Newsweek Most of the 74,222,957 Americans who voted to reelect Donald Trump—46.8 percent of the votes cast in the 2020 presidential election—don’t hold Trump accountable for what he’s done to America. Their acceptance of Trump’s behavior will be…
By Jessica Corbett – Common Dreams (*) Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is trying to tie the repeal to proposed $2,000 coronavirus relief checks. Digital rights advocates and sex workers are among those speaking out against GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch…
By Farhana Haque Rahman* ROME, Dec 23 2020 (IPS) – Despite its grim record of multiple natural disasters and a deepening climate crisis, one could be forgiven for looking back on 2019 with a degree of nostalgia. There is no disguising the extent of the calamity wrought this year…
By Maria Ressa* (Brief intervention at the webinar “From Repression to Resistance: Combatting the Lawfare against Press Freedom,” Manila, Nov 21, 2020) On June 15, 2020, I sat in a decrepit, windowless courtroom and listened to Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa deliver her…
By Nadia Batok* – Wall Street International AI has gone from a science-fiction dream to a critical part of our everyday lives Artificial Intelligence has changed our world Success in creating effective AI, could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation. Or the…
