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07/09 Links: UNRWA – Who asked you?; Iran sought chem and bio weapons in Germany
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From Ian: New York University’s Students for Justice in Palestine Blames Police Shootings of Blacks on Israel The killings this week of African Americans Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by police have sparked soul-searching and protests across...
Hillary Clinton has considered David Miscavige’s appeals lawyer for the US Supreme Court
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Over the last couple of weeks, several news organizations have written about a John Podesta email published by Wikileaks which suggests that even before US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead on February 13, the Hillary Clinton campaign...
Facebook's fake news problem, explained
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News stories are supposed to help ordinary voters understand the world around them. But in the 2016 election, news stories online too often had the opposite effect. Stories rocketed around the internet that were misleading, sloppily reported, or in some...
Recode Daily: Trump is putting Breitbart's boss in the White House
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Alt-right hero Stephen Bannon will be Trump’s “chief strategist” Donald Trump named Steve Bannon, who runs the far-right Breitbart News site, as his chief strategist and senior counselor, to the dismay of hate-watch groups and political opponents. Meanwhile...
Zuckerberg says Facebook plans to crack down on fake news
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg addresses the audience during a meeting of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Ceo Summit in Lima, Peru, on Nov. 19, 2016. Photo by Mariana Baz/Reuters After a week of accusations that fake news posts influenced...

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Studying the internet

This spring at CUNY, my colleague Douglas Rushkoff and I will teach a course in Designing the Internet. Students will propose and design a feature of the net they want to see. Some might start from the entrepreneurial perspective: a product, service...
God made a social network

Chapter 1 1 God made a social network. It was called Earth. Even She could not be certain what would follow. Chapter 2 1 For the longest time, or so it seemed to the people of Earth, She allowed them to roam free, to explore, to commune, to be social...
Aftermath

Yes, 9/11 affected me. Arriving on the last PATH train into the World Trade Center as the first jet hit, I witnessed the second jet’s impact and stayed to report. I still cannot bring myself to speak of some of what I saw. A block from the South Tower...
Someone made my father sick

My 95-year-old, fully vaccinated, deaf, dear father is in the hospital with breakthrough COVID. Someone in Florida gave it to him. That someone — someone who works in a community serving the elderly and vulnerable — should have been vaccinated but was...
A thank-you note to the net

I want to say something unpopular and provocative: I am grateful for the internet, especially this year, most especially amid the pandemic that still engulfs the world. In media’s telling — according to my sampling from just one newspaper’s and one...

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I will be assigning all my entrepreneurial journalism students to listen to every episode of Alex Blumberg’s podcast about starting a podcast company. It is an open, honest, true portrayal of the maki...
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BuzzMachine: Posts from August 2008

I twittered that and a discussion ensued: Richard Sambrook said: I assume that soccer comment was heavy with irony in the light of US football timeouts etc v the fluidity of the beautiful game? Me: P...