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Al Jazeera – Meta profits as ads promote illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank

March 31, 2025 Ben Wray 0

‘Facebook has platformed more than 100 paid advertisements promoting illegal settlements and far-right settler activity in the occupied West Bank, an Al Jazeera investigation has found, raising concerns that the social media giant is profiting from content […]

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Brian Mier – Inside Brazil’s X Ban: How Elon Musk Started – and lost – a Fight With Brazil’s Judiciary

September 4, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Elon Musk’s battle with the Brazilian judiciary appears to have less to do with free speech than it does corporate power. Brian Mier is a native Chicagoan who has lived in Brazil for 25 years. […]

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Roman Zinigrad – How social media amplifies support for the far right in France

September 2, 2024 Ben Wray 0

If someone shows an interest in far-right content on social media, the algorithm quickly introduces them to a whole world of ethnonationalism. Roman Zinigrad is an Assistant Professor of Law at the American University of […]

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Christian Christensen – Elon Musk Doesn’t Know He’s on the Wrong Side of George Orwell

August 22, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Musk’s purchase of Twitter has achieved its ambition: he’s converted his economic power into political power. Christian Christensen is Professor of Journalism at Stockholm University. Follow him on Twitter: @ChrChristensen. Cross-posted from Common Dreams Elon […]

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How to Take Back the Internet – Interview with Cory Doctorow

February 14, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Insightful interview with the author of ‘The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation’ about big tech, monopolies, EU regulation and alternatives.  Konrad Bleyer-Simon is a research associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism […]

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Winnie Lam, Remi Edwards – Social media as a site of social conflict

August 30, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Meaningful political debate is limited within corporate-controlled social media, which is designed for rapid content consumption. Winnie Lam is a Doctoral Researcher at the Management School, University of Sheffield. Remi Edwards is a Doctoral Researcher […]

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Branko Marcetic: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal

December 30, 2022 Ben Wray 0

While some on the left want to dismiss the Twitter Files due to who and how they have been reported on, they reveal the ongoing merger of social media companies with the US state. Read […]

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Konrad Bleyer-Simon: Another Internet is Possible

December 30, 2022 Ben Wray 0

How the internet became a tool for profit, and how to change it. Cross-posted from Green European Journal Few would dispute that the early years of the internet were promising. But exactly when those early […]

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Vijay Prashad: Can the Left Disagree Without Being Disagreeable?

December 21, 2022 Ben Wray 0

A concise call for online debate on the left to be conducted with respect and tolerance. Cross-posted from Counterpunch I have been a reporter for thirty years. During this period, I have been to many […]

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Branko Marcetic: A Missile Strike in Poland Shows Why Government Agencies Can’t Be the Sole Arbiters of Truth

November 18, 2022 Ben Wray 0

After a Ukrainian missile mishap in Poland, misinformation blaming Russia quickly spread. The lie came from precisely the “authoritative sources” now being treated as the arbiters of truth by social media platforms. Read the article […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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