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The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...

Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

It’s a long shot that this bill to eliminate dual citizenship in the US will pass but it sure is a sign of the next segment of debate on who counts as a US American
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If the news business wants young people to trust it, it needs to be honest about its failures, its limitations, and its power. At the very least it can help more people recognize that the news business is a business, one that is also sometimes a public service, and that often also does public harm.

There was a brief window when legacy media “discovered” they could acquire quick, discount talent by hiring people away from blogging. I benefitted! But if not for that… I don’t know. This business has not earned back lost trust from the 2000s, when these surveyed teens weren’t around.

I was on staff at my high school paper (technically I was the “features” editor). The 2000 election chaos, 9/11, the US lying its way into Iraq is what dominated the years of what would have been my early career, had I not come to the reasonable conclusion that the news biz then was not for me.

A lost generation of news consumers? Survey shows how teenagers dislike the news media You don't have to tell Cat Murphy or Lily Ogburn about the attitudes of young people toward journalists.

I’m not sure what to make of this survey, honestly? If you’re a young person in solidarity with Gaza, or against police killings, or you’re trans or queer, would you have reason to trust the news?

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

Around 10% of Meta's revenue comes from literal crime.
That’s not a moderation failure, it's a business model.

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I don't blame people for assuming there's no good, healthy version of online community. Anyone younger than me has probably never seen it. But it used to exist, I swear.

Proposed Nexstar-Tegna Merger Is Blatant Violation of the Law Prohibiting One Company from Too Much Control of Local Airwaves The $6.2 billion deal also would violate the FCC’s few remaining local-ownership limits in nearly 30 markets. In some, it would leave Nexstar in control of three of the top-four-ranked stations.

If approved, the Nexstar-Tenga merger would combine the nation's largest television-station conglomerate with its fourth largest.

The deal also would violate the FCC's few remaining local-ownership limits in approximately 30 markets.

Our statement:

The AI bubble may be about to bust.

Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.

We all need to say this very clearly:

NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!

Expropriate their asses instead.

They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.

They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

A truly cool thing in American civic culture, we have very cute license plates in most states. This isn’t even the cutest from Oregon.

As I told a group at Cornell just yesterday, I think these AI Contributors are a betrayal of the promise of crowdsourced fact-checking.

If the end is to democratize moderation - or as Tarleton Gillespie might put it to enhance the "voice of the governed" - this moves us in the opposite direction.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

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When people ask me how we can stop online scams, I point to THIS

Nov 5, 1965: The #1 song was the Beatles "Yesterday," and the public was first warned about burning fossil fuel.

We haven't done sh*t to stop rising pollution and temperature from causing increasing catastrophe, but "Yesterday" is the most covered song of all time, so at least we still have that!

Excellent! Wish I could have been there

So are rightwing trolls. Luckily the algorithm here doesn’t work as well for them

National Dem leadership are from NYC and they still couldn’t do the right thing. Jeffries weakly endorsed him late and Schumer didn’t even say he voted for the Democratic candidate when asked. Disqualifying to say the least.

I am glad to see the shared joy and hope from so many today. It is great! We should celebrate! But remember @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s campaign team did a lot of work for a long time. Even in NYC this is just step 1. So get ready to do the work based on your unique local conditions.

This speech was excellent in style and Easter Eggs references. Too noteworthy points but my favorites were competence and compassion can coexist. Then at the end when he described Trump grew out of NYC tying Trumpism to city’s corrupt elite.

« Il montre que si on a une base militante suffisamment forte, une candidature populaire et qu'on sait communiquer, on peut gagner » @colestangler.bsky.social Journaliste franco-américain

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Isn’t this just another example of Césaire’s Boomerang Effect? Cooper has reported on a lot of US foreign policy where that logic prevails

The Flaw in Trump’s MAGA Media Empire Plot - The American Prospect Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that it is for sale, and Trump is trying to force the company to agree to a merger with Paramount, consolidating media with his allies the Ellisons. But states can...

From me: Trump is trying to bully Warner Bros. Discovery into accepting a merger bid from the MAGA-fied Paramount. There's a problem for him though: any state Attorney General can sue to block such a deal, which under current law is presumptively illegal.
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'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

In a nearly illiterate editorial, WaPo defends Trump's ballroom project, without revealing the fact that the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, is a principal funder of the project. Shameful conduct all around. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Related - here’s a snapshot of Meta and the lender (Blue Owl) for its Louisiana data center trying to position themselves limit the damage if things implode.

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