In the aftermath of the Capitol riot, far-right militia groups are using Facebook to organize—and they're not worried about getting banned by Meta. wired.trib.al/WHJz1JI

An independent, pluralistic media is vital for democracy. In a year in which voters in many countries are going to the polls, independent information about the candidates & their campaigns is essential.

A world without journalism is a world without truth.

#JournalismMatters .

Lyndall Ryan’s impact on Australian history research will be felt for many years to come theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Amidst tensions about free speech on university campuses and the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, anonymous social media app Sidechat has become a hotbed of vile rhetoric.
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This is the problem with the 'both sides are toxic' narrative. Women aren't disrupting proceedings, even as our rights are being stripped. This man is being granted sex-self-id on a plate, but he is still tantruming when someone else speaks.

#ThisIsNotEquality

Vittoria Elliott has a great overview of our arguments and what's at stake in the case in her piece for WIRED: wired.com/story/meta-sec…

.Ethan Zuckerman is my hero. Every case against surveillance capitalists gets us closer to banning the business model.

Platforms assert that 1A and 230 entitle them to knowingly harm their users for profit. Eventually a judge will see this as total BS and rule against the platforms.

Nobody thinks all men are rapists, paedophiles or voyeurs, but enough are to make it provably safer for women and girls to have single sex spaces. Those campaigning to dismantle basic safeguarding are either dangerously naive or plain dangerous. There is no third possibility.

Florida's law banning abortion at 6 weeks, before many would even know they're pregnant, went into effect today.

Remember, abortion bans aren't 'pro-life.' They're pro-poverty, pro-inequality, and anti-freedom.

Frog in boiling water alert:

Who could have imagined 8 years ago that in the Trump era the Supreme Court would be considering whether a president should be above the law for assassinating opponents or ordering a military coup and that *at least* four justices might agree.

Look, I obviously know the circumstances are different, but there is a ton of overlap between what is going on now and the various iterations of the so-called campus free speech wars that we’ve seen for years. We know how this will unfold. Here’s a sneak preview.

More voters than ever in history will head to the polls this year in key elections around the world. What's Meta's response?

They're gutting the only semblance of accountability and transparency they've ever mustered.

The Washington Post Naomi Nix

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New from me, a quick explainer on what today’s overturning of the New York Weinstein verdict means—for his case, and for the ongoing Trump “catch and kill” hush money trial: newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

Zebra finch eggs and nestlings exposed to everyday traffic noise experience significant, lifelong reductions in health and reproduction.

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PEN America has cancelled the 2024 World Voices Festival. The decision happened 'amid an escalating pattern of suppressing discourse in cultural institutions and on US campuses' #FreeSpeech

'Only one thing is important: to behave throughout your life toward the liars and crooks around you with kindness, honesty, and justice.' #BeKind #HowToLive

An important read, on how China 'vanishes' any perceived threat. #uighurs #RahileDawut

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

Pride in Columbia University journalism, criticism of the university administration and a defense of speech rights here. My new post open.substack.com/pub/margaretsu…

The HugoDécrypte social channels combined now have more followers — 14 million — than Le Monde, the French paper of record.

One thing has become clear to founder Hugo Travers: the idea that young people are uninterested in “serious” news is false.

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