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• Sinclair, FCC Chief's Ties Probe – Cecilia Kang (New York Times)
• Facebook Proved Popular With Russian Election Trolls – Steven Musil (CNET)
• How 3 Digital Activists Remember John Perry Barlow – TIME Staff (Time)
• Netanyahu’s Media Obsession Has Brought About His Downfall – Anshel Pfeffer (Haaretz)
• The NY Times Fires Tech Writer Quinn Norton, and It’s Complicated – Adam Rogers (Wired)
• How Indigenous Communities Are Using Data to ‘Reframe’ Their Narratives Through Digital Storytelling – Belen Febres-Cordero (Global Voices)

Sinclair, FCC Chief's Ties Probe

By Cecilia Kang
February 15, 2018
New York Times

An investigation into whether Ajit Pai and his aides had improperly pushed for net neutrality rule changes and whether they had timed them to benefit Sinclair Broadcasting.

Facebook Proved Popular With Russian Election Trolls

By Steven Musil
February 18, 2018
CNET

Social network singled out in indictment charging 13 Russians with interfering with the US election.

How 3 Digital Activists Remember John Perry Barlow

By TIME Staff
February 15, 2018
Time

Here, those who knew his work best reflect on how the Grateful Dead lyricist and digital-rights activist who co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, helped shape the way the Internet works today.

Netanyahu’s Media Obsession Has Brought About His Downfall

By Anshel Pfeffer
February 14, 2018
Haaretz

The prime minister's obsession with getting the respect he believed he was due from all of the Israeli media led him to pursue Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes.

The NY Times Fires Tech Writer Quinn Norton, and It’s Complicated

By Adam Rogers
February 14, 2018
Wired

Quinn Norton was hired by the paper of record to write about “the power, culture and consequences of technology.” Then those consequences kicked in.

How Indigenous Communities Are Using Data to ‘Reframe’ Their Narratives Through Digital Storytelling

By Belen Febres-Cordero
February 14, 2018
Global Voices

We wanted Reframed Stories to be a space where indigenous communities could analyze media coverage and use this data to reflect on the ways they are portrayed in the media.