journalism
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Google, Allegedly: Snitches Get Stitches
After a year of protests by its own staff against its work with the military, alleged plans to build a censored Chinese search engine, and handling of sexual harassment allegations against executives, Google is doing some soul-searching and self-reflection over the true meaning of “Don’t be evil.” Just kidding! According to the Times of London,…
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US Congressman Divulges Unreleased Study To Win Support For Life-Hunting Mission To Jupiter’s Moon Europa
A mission that would sample plumes of gas shooting off of Jovian moon Europa appears to remain on track for a 2022 launch, after a meeting of the Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) subcommittee in which US Republican Congressman John Culberson shared unreleased scientific results with his colleagues. The new paper could contain findings based…
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Facebook: Hey, Nice Media You Got There, Shame If Some Kind Of News Feed Change Happened To It
Facebook tests of a major change to the way its News Feed works in at least six countries have once raised fears the social media giant — a powerful gatekeeper between publishers and audiences — could be preparing to doom parts of the media, the Guardian reported.
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Facebook’s ‘Fake News’ Solution Isn’t Going To Solve The Problem
Ever since the term was popularised by then-presidential candidate Donald Trump — and subsequently appropriated by Democrats — the stupid controversy over “fake news” has become a swirling vortex of pointlessness that refuses to go all the way down the drain. Now everyone’s calling legitimate articles and opinion pieces that contradict their own prejudices “fake,”…