We don’t just refrain from publishing videos if violence because the public would find them disturbing. It’s out of respect and not to further retraumatise family, neighbors and friends. Wall to wall gore is also not how you best reach people emotionally and humanise victims. #texas#shooting#guns#shootings#media#journalism#commodon
Two days before Christmas, TikTok called London-based journalist Cristina Criddle to tell her two of its employees in #China, and two in the #UnitedStates, had viewed user data from her personal account without her knowledge or consent.
I'm trying to start using an RSS app again. Can someone let me know if CalMatters has an RSS feed? So far, I'm unable to find it. #Newstodon#journalism
Microsoft's AI is boosting fake stories about sex changes for toddlers on the MSN service, blindly furthering the extreme right's project to eliminate trans people.
The issue with MSN's algorithmic aggregation after they fired their human team was first brought to their attention last December, when the service boosted fake stories about Bigfoot and Mermaids. #trans#journalism#AI
lol… just listening to the #wired podcast about how BS is already shadow banning users in an effort to censor “nude” content. Their framing is so condescending.
“Oh golly. Gosh darn it. Those tiny new internet startups should’ve known better.” types of comments abound.
It was almost like the pod was pandering to an investor.
Does anyone know how many news outlets billionaire Dorsey influences via investments?
A transgender girl in CA who was captured on video fighting with another girl has become the subject of national attention in a right-wing press determined to demonize transgender people in any way they can. #transgender#journalism
(Really didn't enjoy writing about this one, but I dug deep)
This week in my newsletter, I'm gonna be honest, I just kinda rambled more about Finland because I was so dead tired from writing about gender-affirming care in Europe all day yesterday.
If you want a window into my rest-starved brain after writing a long piece, or (more likely) if you think the work I do deserves compensation, join the heroes who subscribe at $5/month and keep me covering the facts behind anti-trans propaganda in the US and beyond. #trans#journalism
Time for a re-#introduction to the new folks here:
We are a trustworthy, nonprofit #News source, sharing the knowledge of academic experts on many topics.
Our team of editors identifies researchers studying topics that are timely, important or just plain interesting, and helps them write understandably for the public.
So apparently all you need to do to write an article nowadays is come up with four short paragraphs, and then fill the rest of the empty space up with embedded tweets. 😆
I come across articles like this a lot and think, "Where's the rest of the article?" 😅
“I, for one, didn't have a hard time navigating, and neither was it confusing when it came to "tooting" a post instead of "tweeting" it. The options for the desired action that appear for posts on your feed are pretty much replicated from #Twitter”
The Twitter alternative - #Mastodon | Express Tribune
So you’re staying on Twitter because you want to protect your brand, eh? The fascism over there is no joke. Being there enables a billionaire to behave like a toddler at the helm of a social media dictatorship.
This continues to play out in a way that refutes the “I have community there” argument. Your community can be taken away at any moment. Build community elsewhere.