Friday, May 09, 2025

Trump’s Plan to Give Rabid Right-Wing Propagandists a Global Megaphone

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One of President Donald Trump’s top advisers,  Kari Lake, just proposed  handing far-right propaganda outfit One America News the keys to th...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

The Tech and Media Broligarchs Ready to Serve Trump

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  The crime scene was set on Inauguration Day. President-elect Donald Trump was front and center at the Capitol Rotunda. His family filled t...
Monday, November 25, 2024

Elon Musk’s Plan to Defund Public Broadcasting and Destroy Accountability

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Undermining a publicly funded media system makes perfect sense if clearing a path for graft, corruption and a lack of accountability is the ...
Friday, November 08, 2024

November's Real Heroes: Election Workers

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Hoboken voting location, 2024. They’ve endured a global pandemic, power outages and even swarms of bees to help oversee one of the most acc...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Trump's FCC Ripped Away Open-Internet Protections. We're This Close to Winning Them Back

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A majority of commissioners is set to return to the agency the authority it needs to act as a strong advocate for a user-powered internet. L...
Friday, February 23, 2024

To ‘Save Local News,’ Policymakers Need to Understand What Needs Saving

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  Originally published at Tech Policy Press . Northwestern Medill Local News Initiative  State of Local News 2023 As lawmakers around the wo...

CNN OpEd: Here’s What’s at Risk if Big Tech Doesn’t Address Deceptive AI Content

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Last Friday, 20 technology platforms agreed to better label and curtail AI-generated disinformation that’s being spread online to deceive v...
Friday, November 17, 2023

How the Media Can Atone for Enabling the Rise of Trumpism

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For far too long, media execs have played along with Donald Trump’s strongman charade, aware that his tele-presence is a boon for ratings an...