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Supreme Court Punts Flimsy Laws Limiting Social Media Content Moderation

Forrester IT

What if the US Supreme Court supported a law in which the government could force the New York Times and Wall Street Journal to publish stories against their will? What if the editors at those news outlets no longer had the power to turn down stories that they found objectionable — ones containing hate speech […]

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‘The Everything War’: Inside Amazon with author and Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli

GeekWire

Wall Street Journal reporter Dana Mattioli is the author of the new book, “The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power.” ” The role of Amazon’s culture: “I’ve covered companies for nearly 18 years at the Wall Street Journal.

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Pew Report: Speaking Up or Staying Silent on Social Media

CTOvision

Hope has been placed on the Internet (particularly on social media) to expose users to more sources of information and diverse points of view. In the 1970s, an article in the Journal of Communication by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann coined the term “spiral of silence” to describe the observed phenomenon. By Shannon Perry.

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It's Time to Treat Social Media Like the Climate Crisis, Researchers Argue

Gizmodo

In a new paper published in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), a diverse group makes the case that the social media problem rises to the level of urgency that… Read more. Mark Zuckerberg needs to hand over the keys, a team of researchers argues.

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Your social media diet is becoming easier to exploit

Vox

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) It’s weird and often a bit scary to work in journalism right now. And while most users across all four platforms say they see some form of news-related content regularly, only a tiny portion of them actually log on to social media in order to consume it. AI might be coming for my job!

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Marketers, Stop Being Part Of The Facebook, Inc. Problem — Start Being The Solution

Forrester IT

is in the hot seat again due to a recent The Wall Street Journal “Facebook Files” exposé and 60 Minutes whistleblower interview. As we’ve said again and again, a singular event won’t be enough to bring down the social media behemoth. Facebook, Inc.

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Twitter and Google blocked ads from a medical journal about health and racism

The Verge

The medical journal Health Affairs spent years planning its special issue on health and racism, which it published at the beginning of February. The journal wanted to reach new readers by promoting the issue through targeted advertisements on Twitter and YouTube. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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