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Tsunami of disinfo, Musk on the prowl, and other media moments

A health warning for Facebook? Netflix remakes the movie biz, and more media madness

How France responded when a right to post was taken away. Holiday gift scams, Substack, the Huawei war, and more.

Over the 60 years of the Cuban revolution, the corporate media has implanted in us a negative image of Cuba through their distortions of the country’s political and economic system, their discounting the revolution’s achievements...

Bloomberg News and Bloomberg for Prez / Covering the UK Election / Google's Anti-Union / Iran vs Internet / Digital Chains / COPRA / .Org Privatized? / China Copes With Fake News / The Disinfo Kings

The Pentagon is using a moral panic over “fake news” to gain influence over the domestic news landscape

Breaking up big tech; Internet iron curtain; Ditching the social network; Vaccinating against fake news; Big media, little media; Going indie; WhatsApp hacked

Freedom of speech vs freedom from fear?

Trevor Noah Interviews Bernie Sanders. Behind the Doodle: Celebrating Johann Sebastian Bach. You Won’t Believe What Obama Says in This Video! Faces Places | Movie. Attorney General Barr Is Caught in a Double Mueller Bind.

Giving researchers and companies freedom to explore, in order to seek positive achievements from AI systems, means opening up the risk of developing more advanced ways to create deception and other social problems