Media Bits and Bytes - August 21, 2018
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New Facebook Alliance Endangers Access to News about Latin America - W. T. Whitney (CounterPunch)
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Schools are Using AI to Track What Students Write on Their Computers - Simone Stolzoff (Quartz)
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“What Have We Done?”: Silicon Valley Engineers Fear They've Created a Monster - Susan Fowler (Vanity Fair)
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Shaun King Is Everything Right About Social Media Activism - Lexi Anderson (Study Breaks)
New Facebook Alliance Endangers Access to News about Latin America
By W. T. Whitney
August 16, 2018
CounterPunch
The Facebook accounts of TeleSUR English and Venezuelanalysis inexplicably disappeared.
By Matt Bruenig
August 13, 2018
Jacobin
Mainstream media fact-checkers are trying to discredit Bernie Sanders's Medicare-for-All plan. And failing.
Schools are Using AI to Track What Students Write on Their Computers
By Simone Stolzoff
August 19, 2018
Quartz
Over 50 million k-12 students will go back to school in the US this month. For many of them using a school computer, every word they type will be tracked.
“What Have We Done?”: Silicon Valley Engineers Fear They've Created a Monster
By Susan Fowler
August 9, 2018
Vanity Fair
Gig-economy companies like Uber and Instacart are on the verge of overtaking the traditional economy. And the only people who understand the threat are the ones enabling it.
Shaun King Is Everything Right About Social Media Activism
By Lexi Anderson
August 7, 2018
Study Breaks
Slacktivist, he is not. His presence on social media has boosted social issues, such as police brutality and hate crime violence, straight into the public eye.