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Tag: Media

Reimagining the Internet

Talia Stroud talks about Civic Signals, her project that rethinks the Internet as a public space.

How We Can Actually Use the Internet for Good Things

It is the eve of the Presidential election and things are crazy and scary on the Internet right now. Information is nine-dimensional and hard to trust. If you’ve seen “The Social Dilemma” and learned more about the dark-profit side of the internet, you may be considering throwing your laptop off a bridge. Eli Pariser has been paying attention to this stuff for ages. He’s an author, activist, and entrepreneur focused on how to make technology and media serve democracy. He became executive director of MoveOn.org in 2004, and then he went on to co-found Upworthy.com, and he wrote a book called “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You”. We met up at a TED conference in Scotland and talked wide and deep about how the Internet is like a coity, why it is so hard to be an artist in America, how to have empathy for people you don’t agree with, the struggle to raise children with the right amount of determination and grit, and how shame is a cultural tool to create conformity.

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Facebook Bans Holocaust Denial Content

Facebook has explicitly banned Holocaust denial for the first time.

Quote worth repeating: “My own thinking has evolved as I’ve seen data showing an increase in anti-Semitic violence, as have our wider policies on hate speech,” said Mark Zuckerberg.

“Drawing the right lines between what is and isn’t acceptable speech isn’t straightforward, but with the current state of the world, I believe this is the right balance.”

Read Zuckerberg's Statement