Portside

Reports from the world of tech and mass media, closing out the year from hell

RNC 2020 and Kenosha. 'Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman Sings 'Grandma's Hands'. Soledad O'Brien Helps Translate Tucker Carlson's Kenosha Rant. The Problem With Banning TikTok. David Graeber ('We Are the 99%) in His Own Words.

QAnon has grown from an internet joke to a national political threat - and fuels emerging fascism on the march behind Trump

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

Big Tech's Taxes; Hacking Elections; Epoch Times; Brazil Blackout; Internet's Cleaning Crew; Israel's App; Online Tributes to Palestinian Grandmothers; Cherrypicking Tweets to Make a Media Myth

The data shows that just 20 news sources account for more than half of article impressions.

What they got: $1.5B information highway to nowhere.

"The fight for the web is one of the most important causes of our time."

Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.