Digital gangsterism

Facebook acts like “digital gangsters” (Damian Collins, MP)

Digital authoritarianism

The Global Expression Report 2018-19 shows that global freedom of expression at its lowest for a decade. Gains that were made between 2008 – 2013 have been eroded over the last five years.

The 'Silicon Six' spread propaganda

The ‘Silicon Six’ spread propaganda. It’s time to regulate social media sites (Sacha Baron Cohen, WP)

Living in a “manufactured reality”

The expert who predicted Trump’s 2016 win (Sarah Kendzior) says we’re living in a “manufactured reality” (Mark Sullivan, Fast Company)

The EU doesn’t have a sense of its disinformation problem

The EU doesn’t have a sense of its disinformation problem. This report suggests the policy changes it can make (Nieman Lab)

"Contract for the Web"

Web Inventor Has an Ambitious Plan to Take Back the Net (Time) Contract for the Web

A.I. in your head

Connecting Brains to Computers Is a Shortcut to Dystopia (Evan Selinger and Susan Schneider, Medium - OneZero)

Social Media and Populism

Right-Wing Populism, Social Media and Echo Chambers in Western Democracies (Shelley Boulianne, Karolina Koc-Michalska and Bruce Bimber)

Artificial intelligence won’t kill journalism

Artificial intelligence won’t kill journalism or save it, but the sooner newsrooms buy in, the better (Hanaa' Tameez, NiemanLab)

Killing Net Neutrality

Killing Net Neutrality Was Even Worse Than You Think (Karl Bode, Medium)

Tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers

Inside the Microsoft team tracking the world’s most dangerous hackers (Patrick Howell O'Neill, MIT TR)

UmaSóGlobo 'Media Tech'

Reformulada, Globo avança na direção de se tornar ‘media tech’ (Valor)

Sowden: "The problem isn't data protection, the problem is data collection"

GDPR is missing the point, says Edward Snowden (ZDNet)

US 2020: another Facebook disinformation election

Facebook’s measures have largely failed to reduce the spread of viral disinformation on the platform (AVAAZ)

It is still incredibly easy to share (and see) known fake news about politics on Facebook (NiemanLab)

“The Facebook environment…muddies the waters between fact and fiction” (NiemanLab)

Facebook Isn’t Just Allowing Lies, It’s Prioritizing Them

The more outrageous the lie, the better it is for Facebook’s bottom line (Ellen P. Goodman and Karen Kornbluh, LA Times)

Facebook Isn’t Just Allowing Lies, It’s Prioritizing Them (Tim Wu, NYT)

Hillary Clinton: Zuckerberg should pay price for damage to democracy (The Guardian)

The Guardian view on political advertising: time to regulate it, Mr Zuckerberg (Editorial, The Guardian)

Don’t abolish political ads on social media. Stop microtargeting (Ellen L. Weintraub, WP)

Elizabeth Warren’s New Facebook Ad Brutally Owns Mark Zuckerberg (Rolling Stone)

The UK’s election will put Facebook’s political ad policies to the test (MIT TR)

Mark Zuckerberg has defended Facebook’s decision to let politicians lie in ads (MIT TR)

Russia's Great Firewall

Russia Is About to Disconnect From the Internet: What That Means (Adam Smith, PCMag)

None seem to have learned the lesson of Facebook risks

Newsonomics: Will Facebook’s new news tab be a milestone or millstone? (Ken Doctor, NiemanLab)

Why publishers shouldn’t trust Facebook News (Josh Constine, TechCrunch)

Facebook launches its “test” News tab in the U.S., but you may not see it yet (Laura Hazard Owen, NiemanLab)

Save Journalism Project co-founder: Mark Zuckerberg embodies the 'antithesis of free expression' (CNN)

Media amnesia and the Facebook News Tab (Emily Bell, CJR)

Ignore Zuckerberg’s self-serving rubbish. Facebook must be regulated (Simon Jenkins, The Guardian)

Live talking about journalism and the launch of Facebook News with Robert Thomson, Chief Executive of News Corp.

Google (Big) Brother

Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite (Martin Shelton, Freedom of the Press)

Un exempleado de Google advierte de que la compañía puede acceder todos los documentos en su nube (El País)

In a corner of Brazil...

In a corner of Brazil, local reporters are switching to government jobs and the state is achieving “media capture” (NiemanLab)

FCC repealed net neutrality

Will net neutrality enter the 2020 debate after court ruling? (Andrew Wyrich, DailyDot)

Rise of the machines

La revolución tecnológica necesita ética o nos esclavizará (El País)

Da invisibilidade de Salazar à presencialidade de Caetano. Sobre os media, a televisão e a ditadura em Portugal

2. Cádima, F. R. (2019). Da invisibilidade de Salazar à presencialidade de Caetano. Sobre os media, a televisão e a ditadura em Portugal. Media & Jornalismo, v. 19 n. 35, pp. 197-209. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336826181_Da_invisibilidade_de_Salazar_a_presencialidade_de_Caetano_Sobre_os_media_a_televisao_e_a_ditadura_em_Portugal

Real news about fake news

The number of countries with political disinformation campaigns more than doubled to 70 in the last two years (NiemanLab)