Top news of the week: 23.02.2021.
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Future Of News & Journalism
“It would be troubling if we moved from opaque unilateral and often unaccountable content moderation by private companies, to opaque unilateral and often unaccountable content moderation by governments.” https://t.co/UvBzoRXOHM
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How to respond to disinformation while protecting free speech
1 Beyond the actual harm and risk of harm posed by various kinds of disinformation and in some instances by broader kinds of problematic information, the lack of conceptual …
RT @CJR: "Innovation just doesn’t hold promise when there’s no way to finance a public good that people benefit from even if they don’t pay for consumption."
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The limitations of the “news ecosystem” metaphor
<p>Metaphors are useful, until they’re not. A few years ago, I taught basic ecology to preschool students, using a tarp as a teaching tool. I would help a group of small children gather on ...
RT @Sreeniv: The tech giants need to pay the news industry by @sree https://t.co/Sj6mmjdJXA
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The tech giants need to pay the news industry
What's happening in Australia with Google, Facebook, and publishers is a harbinger of things to come.
@benedictevans And I agree. But Facebook did set a precedent in paying News Corp already: Zuckerberg practically passing a check to Thomson at a NY event. But the link to the link was the link too far.
https://t.co/LsjcJsPBfu
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The Old Boys’ Blackmail
It appears the big, old publishers have won. They cashed in their political capital — and with it no small store of professional ethics —…