Economics
The Guardian – Facebook: Key points from parliamentary inquiry into disinformation
At 108 pages and covering a wide terrain, comprehensive report damns Facebook Read here
Media
EU politics
Phys Org: EU countries split over copyright overhaul
Good news for us and you. A decision concerning copyright laws has been postponed (possibly until after the EU elections). There has apparently been a lot of public pressure to revise the law, which pitted […]
EU politics
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Leaks Show EU’s Attempts to Fix the Copyright Directive Are Failing
The European Parliament is meeting this week, and the committee that will decide the future of the controversial new Copyright Directive will meet next, and depending on what they do, it might be the end […]
EU politics
The Local fr: ‘They tell nothing but lies’: France’s ‘yellow vests’ reveal their hatred of the media
The two most effective state weapons against democracy are the police and the media. As Serge Halimi wrote in his billiant article Forgotten France rises up (read here) French journlaists have been warned ‘Journalists must […]
Corruption
Tabe Bergman – Fixing the problems of politics and media as usual: not with a media revolution, but ending economic insecurity
With increasingly corrupt state and corporate media, as well as growing inequality, with people having three jobs to survive and little time for politics, democracy is being rapidly eroded. New politics and new media are […]
Finance
Kieren McCarthy: Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…
No one likes a lying asshole Read here
EU politics
Mohamed Elmaazi and Max Blumenthal – Inside the Temple of Covert Propaganda: The Integrity Initiative and the UK’s Scandalous Information War
A good piece of research. It is becoming ever clearer where this is heading. Only an academic could raise the question of legality. First the facts – and we are onlyat the beginning. Read here
EU politics
Daily Record: Institute for Statecraft’s Integrity Initiative
In state and commercial media we are constantly bombarded with reports of purported fake news being launched by the Russians. Here is a clear case, where Britain’s own government spooks are doing exactly this to […]
Media
George Monbiot: How US billionaires are fuelling the hard-right cause in Britain
This is not only US billionaires, but those in Europe as well. The winners of neo-liberalism are pumping money into neo-racist party because democracy and sham democratic liberal parties are no longer working for them. […]
Climate Change
Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – “Mark and Carrie”
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. Today’s topics include the California […]