US 'considering' dropping prosecution of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Joe Biden says | US News | Sky News news.sky.com/story/us-consi…

Philippine mass media remain predominantly owned and controlled by a handful of conglomerates and influential families with an interest favorable to their political and economic interests. vera.ph/3PWkbyA

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Ich bin sehr viel Fahrrad gefahren, kreuz und quer durch Deutschland, Norden, Süden, Westen und besonders viel im Osten. Ich habe es zum Vergnügen getan, aber auch, um mit Menschen zu sprechen und mein Land besser kennenzulernen. Ab September dann im Buchhandel. Freue mich sehr!

The US could soon ban TikTok.
But that’s a negative solution to the internet’s problems, argues Ethan Zuckerman, UMass Amherst
So, where is the positive one?

prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technolo…

The United States is still in the early stages of closing civic space, and this trajectory is not inevitable. It can learn from what has occurred in other countries.

Rachel Kleinfeld outlines tactics for an effective response in her Carnegie Endowment paper:
carnegieendowment.org/2024/03/06/clo…

There’s a big difference between news reporting and news chat. News chat currently dominates because it’s cheap, easy, and gets clicks and an audience. But it lives off news reporting which is hard, expensive and sometimes dangerous. We seem to regularly confuse the two.

+++ Aus gegebenem Anlass und um Risse im Raumzeit-Kontinuum zu vermeiden, empfehlen wir einmal mehr: Stellen Sie keinesfalls die Zeit um, sondern nur die Uhren (ca. ein halber Meter genügt dabei oft schon). +++

🚨BREAKING: Amazon loses legal battle under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) and will have to make its advertisement repository publicly available. Context & quote:

➡️Amazon requested that its obligation to make an advertisement repository publicly available be suspended. This…

Thanks to everyone who joined yesterday's webinar with so many interesting questions, and especially to @Olafsteenfadt & Konrad Bleyer-Simon 🇺🇦 (Global Media Registry) and our Maria Giovanna N. Sessa for the valuable exchange! 🤗

The replay is up! 📺 Watch it here! 👇 disinfo.eu/outreach/our-w…

We have uncovered a pro-Russian network that was developing an operation to spread Russian influence and undermine security across Europe. Therefore we added two individuals and one legal entity to the sanctions list. Domestic authorities subsequently seized their assets.

The…

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The goodwill of big tech will not save journalism. New streams of funding, including public support and targeted tech industry levies are needed. Ethical Journalism Network RSF jean-paul Marthoz Eric Wishart theguardian.com/media/2024/mar…

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Meta is killing off CrowdTangle in August, company says.

„Weil es so ist, wiedersprechen wir auch dem Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz in seiner heutigen Außen- & Sicherheitspolitik(…) Heute müssen wir sagen an die Adresse Putins gerichtet: Derjenige der den Krieg begonnen hat, muß den Krieg verlieren, & die Ukraine muss ihn gewinnen“ —Friedrich Merz