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Inside: A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/28/fog-o-war/

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dillonniederhut,

@pluralistic OTM is a treasure

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A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza: A new "breaking news consumer handbook" from On The Media.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111313886080966051

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Hey look at this

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My notes from Economic Systems and Monetary Evolution https://craphound.com/fom2003-decentralizedeconomicsystems.txt

Fox threatens to sue Fox over Simpsons https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/oct/29/tvnews.internationalnews

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Giving no-strings-attached money to the world’s poorest produces remarkably good results https://www.economist.com/international/2013/12/12/pennies-from-heaven

Spanish PM summons US ambassador to explain mass-surveillance of Spaniards https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/spain-summons-us-ambassador-nsa-calls,/a>

Done Wrong: a guide to spotting and avoiding stats errors https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com

threatens injunction against the Guardian to stop further leak publications https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/28/david-cameron-nsa-threat-newspapers-guardian-snowden

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Consumer Reports finds that ’s home camera sends unencrypted video without unique passwords https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/d-link-camera-poses-data-security-risk-consumer-reports-finds-a8814384448/

Is this the full list of US cities that have bought or considered ’s predictive policing services? https://memex.craphound.com/2018/10/30/is-this-the-full-list-of-us-cities-that-have-bought-or-considered-predpols-predictive-policing-services/

Trump official publicly lying about censorship on https://www.vice.com/en/article/bj49j8/fcc-falsely-claims-community-broadband-an-ominous-threat-to-the-first-amendment

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#1yrago #Adobe steals your color https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

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Friday's threads: A taxonomy of corporate bullshit; and more!

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111307669281992125

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geneshackman,

@pluralistic well, actually, #3 and #5 are contradictory. #3 says photos are easily faked but #5 says photos may be old or from something else but they are rarely faked. Which is it?

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@geneshackman Well, actually, a "crisis actor" isn't the same as photo-manipulation.

Actually.

geneshackman,

@pluralistic But #3 says never screenshot photos, because they are easily faked. Faked includes crisis actors as well as photo manipulation. #3 doesn't say -how- they are faked, just that they are faked.

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@geneshackman Well, actually, if you listen to the radio program or read the full PDF rather than the one-sentence menemonics on the social media graph, you will get more detail.

Acutally.

geneshackman, (edited )

@pluralistic well, actually, the pdf doesn't say much more. Fake still isn't well defined, so still includes crisis actors.

"III. Don't trust screenshots

Screenshots of news stories, tweets, and other social media should come with links to the original. It's just too damned easy to fake a screenshot."

"Fake" still includes anything, including crisis actors.

Actually.

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@geneshackman Actually, you should listen to the radio program.

geneshackman,

@pluralistic actually, I looked at the image, and I looked at the PDF. That's enough. They didn't do a good job.

Riada90,

@pluralistic fuck yeah! Love me some media literacy! :blobcatjustright:

kkarhan,

@pluralistic Telegram and Instagram ain't sources - just like Wikipedia, Wordpress and Tumblr ain't!

That's an F in terms of basics.

Now sit doen.

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@pluralistic This is worth reading: https://mastodon.social/@bhasic/111228099115907390

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