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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – NOVEMBER 29, 2022  
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November 29, 2022
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_ Twitter SNAFUs, and more reports from MSM and cyberworld _

Credit, Nicholas Konrad / The New Yorker

 

* A Progressive News Network
* Fox News’s Crime Wave Goes Poof  
* Twitter Litter
* Can Deepfakes be Ethical?
* The Manosphere
* Students Seek to Save Local News
* Israel/Google/Amazon Deal
* Plutocrats and Cultural Industries
* _Love and Rockets_ Turns 40
* New York Times Blames “Left Extremists”

A PROGRESSIVE NEWS NETWORK
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By Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen
Columbia Journalism Review

The _Gander_ is part of the Courier Network, a company which
supports liberal politics run by Tara McGowan. Courier has seven other
newsrooms in competitive swing states across the country. McGowan
created the newsrooms with the intention of neutralizing false or
“bad information” by conservative media. 

FOX NEWS’S CRIME WAVE GOES POOF
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By Adam Gabbatt
The Guardian

In the weeks leading up to the US midterm elections, the message
from Fox News was clear: violent crime is surging, cities are
dangerous hellscapes and Democrats are responsible. With the vote
over, however, the rightwing news channel appeared to decide things
weren’t that bad after all, and decreased its coverage of violent
crime by 50% compared with the pre-election average.

TWITTER LITTER

* ALREADY A HELLSCAPE
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By Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker
 
* MUSK’S POLITICAL WEAPON
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By Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC
 
* CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS: DROP TWITTER
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  By Dell Cameron, Gizmodo
 
* LEAVING TWITTER’S WALLED GARDEN
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  By Ross Schulman and Jon Callas, Electronic Frontier Foundation
 

CAN DEEPFAKES BE ETHICAL?
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By Scott Nover
Quartz

Deepfakes are computer-generated videos that transplant a person’s
face, voice, and overall likeness onto another body. In an age of
rising misinformation and cyberattacks, the most worrying risk around
deepfake technology is hostile political propaganda, potentially
sparking protests or violence. 

THE MANOSPHERE
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By Giulia Evolvi
Newsroom

Even as online campaigning has rallied women, so too has it rallied
anti-feminists and misogynists. And, like the feminists,
misogynists’ online pontificating can have a direct influence on
politics, especially far-right movements.

STUDENTS SEEK TO SAVE LOCAL NEWS
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By Victoria Holmes
Editor & Publisher

Newsrooms are finding resources and innovative ways to save or even
revive their storytelling capabilities. Partnerships between
universities and media companies are especially prevalent in local
newspapers, which are facing increasing newsroom layoffs as they
struggle to survive. These partnerships have the potential to help
fill gaps in coverage and train a new generation of journalists.

ISRAEL/GOOGLE/AMAZON DEAL
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By Abdul Rahman
Peoples Dispatch

Hundreds of tech employees have been protesting against Google and
Amazon signing a deal with the Israeli government to develop
artificial intelligence tools under the so-called Nimbus project which
will be used to trace and control Palestinian movements.

PLUTOCRATS AND CULTURAL INDUSTRIES
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By Justin O'Connor
The Conversation

In _Chokepoint Capitalism_, Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow have
added their detailed knowledge of corporate practice and their
legal-technical web-weaving to the growing body of critical work on
Big Tech and the stark realities of creative work. The result is a
dark portrait of a cultural system captured by billionaires.

_LOVE AND ROCKETS_
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TURNS 40
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By Mandalit del Barco
NPR

Artists Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez have been drawing and writing
their popular comic book series _Love and Rockets _since
1982. They've_ _followed the lives of their mostly Latina characters
as they grow from restless teens to middle-aged women. To celebrate
the 40th anniversary, their loyal publisher Fantagraphics has a new
box collection of their classics.

NEW YORK TIMES BLAMES “LEFT EXTREMISTS”
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By Julie Hollar
FAIR

With the widespread losses suffered by extremist Republican
candidates, it’s no surprise that journalists and pundits are
reading lessons into that for the GOP. But
in true Timesian fashion, reporters argued that
it’s _both_ extremes that voters rejected. “On the Right and
Left, People Voted to Reject Extremists in Midterms,” announced the
headline to their piece in the print edition.

* Courier Network
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* Progressive Media
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* The Gander
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* Fox News
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* twitter
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* Elon Musk
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* civil rights activists
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* deepfakes
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* The Manosphere
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* social media
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* Sexism Online
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* students
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* local news
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* Israel
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* Google
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* Amazon
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* Palestine
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* cultural industries
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* plutocracy
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* Love and Rockets
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* comics
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* Hernandez Brothers
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* new york times
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