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Income disparity on the small screen, Zuckerberg's big rip-off, and more

Perhaps this pandemic’s devastation will promote a debate on the failures of our ragged social safety net.

Trump prepares for a cable pulpit while the alt-right entrench online, and more media and tech news

A recent survey on workers and learners in Los Angeles County by the UCLA Labor Center found that “52% have been laid off, terminated, or furloughed from their jobs due to the pandemic.” It is very hard to study with many insecurities in your life.

The digital divide will deprive poor kids of education in the pandemic; Remembering Lorenzo Milam; The tech cold war with China, and more media and tech reports

Global South communities affected by mining face multiple pandemics — not just of disease, but of violence, exploitation, and corporate capture.

Why Press Freedom Day? Is encrypted messaging the future of social media? And more media news

Nearly three-fourths of workers age 65 and older—over 5 million older workers—are unable to telecommute. That means that these workers, who are at higher risk for severe illness from COVID-19, could be putting themselves at risk to earn a paycheck.

Censorship, disinformation, hysteria and more

Don't Unlock Your Cellphone; Cable Soon to be Obsolete; Time-Warner Divorces Time Magazine; Minority Media Ownership Way Down; Hewlett Improves Conditions for its Chinese Workers; Amazon Polices Immigrant Workers with Neo-Nazi Guards; FCC Building Free Universal WiFi - Not!; Still No TV Cameras for SCOTUS; Technology & Democracy; Clicktivism & Unions; Journalists Under Attack; Zombies Hack Emergency Alert System; More