Media Bits and Bytes - September 4, 2018
Social Media Companies Aren’t Liberal or Conservative - Will Oremus (Slate)
The Village Voice Has Been Shut Down - Alissa Wilkinson (Vox)
Conservatives Can’t Identify Journalism, Confuse It With Doxxing
By Roy Edroso
August 20, 2018
Village Voice
Several news organizations requested information about jurors in Paul Manafort’s fraud trial. Conservatives say this is doxxing (it’s not).
By Zeynep Tufekci
August 14, 2018
MIT Technology Review
To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.
Social Media Companies Aren’t Liberal or Conservative
By Will Oremus
August 21, 2018
Slate
They’re capitalist. And their real biases are against labor costs and controversy.
I Hacked a Mock Election Site. Here's Why That Matters.
An investigation reveals that the fake news sites that flourished in Macedonia in 2016 weren’t just the work of local teens — and that security agencies are probing possible connections to Russia.
The Village Voice Has Been Shut Down
By Alissa Wilkinson
August 31, 2018
Vox
The loss of the legendary New York publication is a tragedy for local media, alt-weeklies, and criticism.