Finance
Chris Hughes: It’s Time to Break Up Facebook
A co-founder of facebook calls for it being broken up. Read here
Media Concentration
Finance
Lynn Parramore – The Antitrust Case Against Facebook You Need to Know About
Former ad tech entrepreneur and advertising executive Dina Srinivasan is author of a well-researched study in the Berkeley Business Law Journal laying out the case that social network giant Facebook has now entered America’s annals […]
Media Concentration
Dina Srinivasan – Can Antitrust Law Rein in Facebook’s Data-Mining Profit Machine?
Facebook engaged in an elaborate bait and switch on user data: privacy disappeared along with its competitors. Laws governing competition could change that. Dina Srinavasan is a former technology entrepreneur Cross-posted from The Institute for […]
Corruption
Austerity
Renegade Inc: Myth Busting the European Dream featuring Mathew D. Rose
Politically you can ignore some of the people some of the time…but you can’t ignore all the people all of the time. For many years European citizens have intuitively opposed unaccountability, a lack of political […]
Climate Change
Jason Hickel: Corporate Media Attacks on Corbyn & AOC Resemble State of Permanent Coup!
Russia Today speaks to Dr Jason Hickel, who serves on the Labour Party task force on international development, on inequality, a Green New Deal, his new book ‘The Divide’, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeremy Corbyn and […]
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 […]