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The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.
The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.
The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.
This endless fanfare of grievance, innuendo, and motivated misprioritization colors most of the content you’ll find on the most popular conservative news and opinion outlets: vast edifices of bullshit constructed atop small kernels of verifiable information. But this ongoing victim narrative is undermined by the plain fact that, far from being marginalized and undervalued, by most available metrics, right-wing news and opinion is very popular and profitable. Fox News consistently tops the cable news ratings. Conservative radio shows and podcasts top the leaderboards in their respective disciplines. Right-wing Facebook pages are consistently among the most popular issues-based Facebook pages. Substacks dedicated to the proposition that divergent political opinion has no home in the American media earn their proprietors better livings than they ever would have made at the publications they once called home. We are literally living in the Golden Age of Getting Rich and Wielding Influence by Pretending That Your Voice Has Been Silenced—which brings us back to the Twitter Files, and the people to whom they were handed by the wealthiest man in the world.
·slate.com·
The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.
BFM: The Business Station - Podcast Morning Brief: Hate Speech And Extreme Violence Has No Place In Malaysia
BFM: The Business Station - Podcast Morning Brief: Hate Speech And Extreme Violence Has No Place In Malaysia
The police have warned Malaysian social media users against uploading content that would threaten public safety and order, after it came to public attention that there were Tik Tok clips bringing up the May 13 racial riots in relation to GE15. Munira Mustaffa, Executive Director of the Chasseur Group tells us the reason for the rise of such damaging rhetoric and if there are organised forces behind it.
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BFM: The Business Station - Podcast Morning Brief: Hate Speech And Extreme Violence Has No Place In Malaysia
Data & Society — The Oxygen of Amplification
Data & Society — The Oxygen of Amplification
New Data & Society report recommends editorial “better practices” for reporting on online bigots and manipulators; interviews journalists on accidental amplification of extreme agendas
Offering extremely candid comments from mainstream journalists, the report provides a snapshot of an industry caught between the pressure to deliver page views, the impulse to cover manipulators and “trolls,” and the disgust (expressed in interviewees’ own words) of accidentally propagating extremist ideology.
·datasociety.net·
Data & Society — The Oxygen of Amplification
Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge
Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge
my age cohort really is the sandwich generation - we're just the IT Support generation
But the issue is likely not that modern students are learning fewer digital skills, but rather that they’re learning different ones. Guarín-Zapata, for all his knowledge of directory structure, doesn’t understand Instagram nearly as well as his students do, despite having had an account for a year. He’s had students try to explain the app in detail, but “I still can’t figure it out,” he complains.  “They use a computer one way, and we use a computer another way,” Guarin-Zapata emphasizes. “That’s where the problem is starting.” Ford agrees. “These are smart kids,” she says. “They’re doing astrophysics. They get stuff. But they were not getting this.”  Regardless of source, the consequence is clear. STEM educators are increasingly taking on dual roles: those of instructors not only in their field of expertise but in computer fundamentals as well.
·theverge.com·
Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge