Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Media
The Silver Lining of Negative Media
What we should do when even the CDC says the news is too much to handle
Rashida Jones, replacing Phil Griffin at MSNBC, will be first Black woman to run a cable news network
Jones, 39, will replace Griffin, 64, starting early next year.
YouTube will ask commenters to rethink posting if their message seems offensive
An attempt to weed out offensive comments
Recode Media
Eli Pariser wants to build a better Facebook
Reimagining the Internet
Talia Stroud talks about Civic Signals, her project that rethinks the Internet as a public space.
We’re All Going through a “Lifequake”: Here’s How to Get Through It
“These periods are difficult but they’re also opportunities for renewal and growth.”
Instagram Will Disable a Feature that Could Be Used to Sow Election Misinformation
Instagram announced it will temporarily remove the recent tab from hashtag pages to reduce the spread of misinformation in the lead up to the U.S. election.
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.
Lots of Overnight Tragedies, No Overnight Miracles
An important thing that explains a lot of things is that good news takes time but bad news happens instantly.
YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
On the chopping block: claims about COVID-19 vaccines that contradict consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization
To Mend a Broken Internet, Create Online Parks
We need public spaces, built in the spirit of Walt Whitman, that allow us to gather, communicate, and share in something bigger than ourselves.
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.”