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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – NOVEMBER 14, 2023  
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November 14, 2023
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_ Workers’ rights vs owners’ tech _

, Bill Bramhall / Copyright 2023 Tribune Content Agency

 

* The Threat of a Cowardly News Media
* When Reporting is a Death Sentence
* Posts About Palestinians Disappear
* SAG-AFTRA and AI
* Weeklies Closing
* Jezebel and Women’s Anger
* Meta Whistleblower
* The Omegle Shutdown
* Medicare Advantage and AI
* Product Safety Regulations for Social Media

THE THREAT OF A COWARDLY NEWS MEDIA
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By Will Bunch
The Philadelphia Inquirer

In one of the most perilous moments of crisis the world has seen in 75
years, and with the basic notions of free speech under assault, most
newsrooms aren’t fighting back. They are, instead, pulling their
punches in a defensive, “rope-a-dope” crouch, and thus failing to
truly inform — when democracy itself is at risk.

WHEN REPORTING IS A DEATH SENTENCE
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By Azad Essa
Middle East Eye

Over and above the twisted mainstream coverage, another war is playing
out. A narrative war involving realms of disinformation, lies and
obfuscation, emanating from the Israeli state. The deliberate
targeting of Palestinian journalists represents another layer of war
crimes that the western mainstream press doesn’t appear to be taking
seriously.

POSTS ABOUT PALESTINIANS DISAPPEAR
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By Karen Gullo and Jillian C. York
Electronic Freedom Frontier

In the weeks since war between Hamas and Israel began, social media
platforms have removed content from or suspended accounts of
Palestinian news sites, activists, journalists, students, and Arab
citizens in Israel, interfering with the dissemination of news about
the conflict and silencing voices expressing concern for Palestinians.

SAG-AFTRA AND AI
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By Gene Maddaus
Variety

The union was worried that studios could use artificial intelligence
to reanimate dead actors, or to create a digital Frankenstein out of
the body parts of real actors. Those were among the last deal points
to fall into place before the union could end its 118-day strike. In
the end, SAG-AFTRA did not get every AI restriction it was looking
for. But it did get most of it.

WEEKLIES CLOSING
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By Marc Edge
Canadian Dimension

Dozens of community newspapers have been closed across Canada just
since Facebook began blocking news in August to comply with
the _Online News Act_, which was passed by Parliament at the behest
of newspaper publishers who demanded payment from it and Google for
linking to their news stories. 

JEZEBEL AND WOMEN’S ANGER
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By Anna Holmes
The New Yorker

_Note_: Since this remembrance of the feminist website Jezebel was
published, the owner, G/O Media, announced they were suspending
publication.

META WHISTLEBLOWER
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By Sara Morrison
Vox

There’s a new Meta whistleblower in town: Arturo Béjar, a longtime
employee who came forward to the Wall Street Journal last week to
accuse the social media giant of knowing, through its own research,
that its platforms were hurting children. Not only did Meta refuse to
act on that information, Béjar asserted, but it also tried to cover
it up. 

THE OMEGLE SHUTDOWN
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By Amanda Hoover 
Wired

Omegle, the video and text chat site that paired strangers together to
talk, ultimately shut down as part of a legal mediation with a female
user who sued the company, claiming its defective and negligent design
enabled her to be sexually abused through the site.

MEDICARE ADVANTAGE AND AI
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By Brett Wilkins
Common Dreams

As Medicare Advantage plans rely increasingly upon artificial
intelligence to determine—and often deny—payment for patient care,
a group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers urged Medicare's top official to
strengthen oversight of AI and algorithmic tools used to make coverage
determinations.

PRODUCT SAFETY REGULATIONS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA
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By Laura Edelson
Scientific American

Like cars and medicines, social media needs product safety standards
to keep users safe. We still don’t have all the answers on how to
build those standards, which is why social media companies must share
more information about their algorithms and platforms with the public.

* news media
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* Journalists
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* Palestine
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* censorship
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* SAG-AFTRA
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* artificial intelligence
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* newspapers
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* Jezebel
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* Meta
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* Omegle
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* Medicare Advantage
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* social media
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* Canada
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* Committee to Defend Journalists
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