Media Bits and Bytes - July 28, 2020
- TikTok and the Tech War
- Tech Trusts
- Troubles at the Times
- What Local Reporting Tells Us
- Facebook and Climate
- Press Repression in Hungary
- Twitter and QAnon
- Stop Using Facebook Messenger
By Andrés Ortega
The Globalist
We live in an age where apps wars between major nations have geo-technological fallout.
By Jon Swartz
July 27, 2020
Congress has a million-plus documents from Big Tech antitrust investigation, and are ready to grill big-name CEOs.
The Bari Weiss Case By Tom Jones, July 15, 2020, Poynter
Framing AOC By Dan Froomkin, July 24, 2020, Press Watch
By Brett Murphy
July 24, 2020
Columbia Journalism Review
Local Matters, a weekly newsletter digest of the best local watchdog reporting around the country. The idea is to celebrate local investigations for an audience outside the normal, local readership.
Social Media and Climate Denial
By Louise Boyle
July 23, 2020
The Independent
While tech giants have taken steps to remove, or label as false, potentially harmful misinformation on the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a seeming acceptance of those who spread false theories on the climate crisis.
July 24, 2020
BBC News
More than 70 journalists and staff at Hungary's top news site Index have resigned, accusing the government of launching a bid to destroy or tame their website. Index is the last of Hungary's key independent media and editor in chief Szabolcs Dull was fired on Tuesday.
By Chloe Hadavas
July 24, 2020
Slate
Twitter announced that it would take action against QAnon activity, a move that may seem to be a long-overdue step to address a movement that the FBI considers a potential domestic terrorism threat.
By Zak Doffman
July 25, 2020
Forbes
Messenger is seriously lacking on the security front. And this is a problem which is both getting worse and which Facebook cannot easily fix.