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It’s #NewstodonFriday once again, and as always, we have a great selection of stories from independent newsrooms. This week’s highlights include @ProPublica’s story about a DJ turned white supremacist influencer, @parkermolloy writing for @damemagazine about the death of legacy media, and @bolts’s @taniel on —yikes — another round of U.S. elections. Please check out these stories and all the others in this thread, comment, like, follow their accounts and give them your money. ⤵️
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Lies, Information Spaces, and Changing Minds
The scary thing we are learning is, to our collective horror, we have built up very little institutional or cultural resilience to fascists, specifically their lies and manipulation. The good news is that we are getting a crash course in how to build that resilience, and it can be pretty straightforward.
I think the foundation of democratic resilience is ending bothsides-ism in #media. Once someone demostrates they are untrustworthy, their voice needs to be dismissed outright. As consumers, all of us have the agency to reject sources that rely on both-sidesism and clickbait catastrophizing. This will take time to learn good habits and it involves collective responsibility, but I believe we can do this.
These battles are won in information spaces, and while autocrats have the advantage of corporate mouthpiece control, they have the disadvantage of being grossly incompetent and stupidly cruel. Their 'brand' is technocratic efficiency and objectivity. As crazy as it sounds, a lot of people dont know they are being lied to because of the information spaces they are trapped in and the blinders they have put up. Our pressure on autocrats, pointing out their incompetence, stupidity, and cruelty, needs to be relentless in order to destroy their brand and help people break free of these bubbles.
I know its distressing to see so many fall for outright lies, but people are very capable of changing their minds when they are presented with evidence that touches on their personal experiences. I point back to collective responsibility to win back minds and diligently fight against authoritarian propoganda, as all of us who have used #BigTech or ever believed in 'meritocracy' have helped build this world.
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The Texas Observer mourns the loss and celebrates the life of Carlton Carl—longtime board member, fierce supporter, and fighter for progress—who passed away Tuesday. We'll publish more soon, but for now we hope you'll revisit this 2024 interview: https://www.texasobserver.org/carlton-carl-texas-observer-70th/
Greg Abbott's SHOCKING Statement on #Texas Flood Victims Sparks Outrage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKYd3ivtXgs&t=306s #texasfloods #usa #fema #flashfloodwarning #tech #trump #donaldtrump #maga #cruel #football #sports #news #politics #us #fascism #media #press #tv
It’s #NewstodonFriday once again, and we’ve tried to find the heartwarming, inspiring and funny in this week’s tsunami of terrible (though we couldn’t find the silver lining in everything). Highlights include @ProPublica’s story about a lawyer who switched sides, @TexasObserver’s review of a film about inspiring librarians across America, and @Daojoan's story about why we’ve come to believe that you have to be an a**hole to be a genius. Plus, our @CultureDesk shared the only information you need to know about tariffs. Check out these stories and all the others in this thread, comment, like, follow their accounts and give them your money. ⤵️
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"What I refer to as The Iron Triangle of #Fascism ..A new paradigm--RW #media, corporate media & weak Dem leadership combine to pave a path to perdition.
A major event occurs. It can be the #CharlieKirk shooting or Benghazi..And here’s how it goes from there.."
https://www.blueamp.co/p/charlie-kirk-holds-up-a-mirror-to #shooting #tv #news #politics #press #donaldtrump #trump #russia #china #eu #tech #ai #memes #ukraine #israel
I think seeing captured film reels from WWII in grade 10 social studies of bodies being bulldozed into mass graves by Nazi labourers and hearing classmates gasp, several of them breaking down, openly weeping, was a turning point in my view of humanity; I expect parents today would be outraged at such shocking material being put before schoolchildren...
#history #media #journalism #education #genocide
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Today I launch “Amped Up w/ Cliff Schecter,” my new #Substack show every Thur 2pm et!
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It’s #NewstodonFriday once again. Please enjoy a selection of stories from independent newsrooms on politics, technology, books, history, and giant almond trucks. Check out the thread, comment, like, follow their accounts and give them your money. ⤵️
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You can do something about this. It takes two minutes.
Here is the CBC Ombudsman's complaints address:
https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman/contact
Here's what I wrote, feel free to borrow:
I'm dumbfounded at CBC's disgraceful presentation of its story on AI image manipulation.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/chatgpt-fake-politicians-1.7507039
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Noch auf der Suche nach #News und offiziellen Accounts von Medien hier auf #Mastodon und im #Fediverse?
Meine immer aktuelle Tabelle enthält jetzt nicht nur Accounts auf Mastodon und anderen Fediverse-Diensten, sondern auch welche auf #Flipboard, #Threads und #Bluesky – allesamt von hier abrufbar.
Insgesamt sind es jetzt 942.
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html
(hinter dem "Custom Search Builder" links darüber gibt's eine mächtige Suche)
https://blueamp.substack.com/p/kamala-told-colbert-the-systems-broken Kamala Told Colbert the System’s "Broken;"
#Trump Proved it, Ended #PBS / #NPR "Kamala sat across from #Colbert—recently fired to make the slovenly golf-cheat happy so he’d “allow” Skydance #Media to take over Paramount Global—and admitted our system is broken"
READ THE REST & SUBSCRIBE! #news #politics #writing #russia #america #us #usa #unitedstates #press #tech #ai #donaldtrump #nato #eu #epstein #jobs #entertainment #tv #business
When I see news with a link, but the link is to an article behind a paywall, it is still helpful because I then do a Google search or a Bing search for the same news. I often find more information about this news, sometimes from a television station or a foreign newspaper.
#FindingFreeContent #media #politics
It’s #NewstodonFriday once again, where we share stories from independent newsrooms and journalists, plus a smattering from our own editorial desks. Check out the thread, comment, like, follow their accounts and subscribe to independent media. ⤵️
#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
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We’re proud to welcome to the Observer masthead @candicequestions and Mary Tuma as special investigative correspondents, joining @stevanzetti as freelance reporters helping us tackle the #environment, reproductive rights, and #extremism respectively: https://www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/
#ReproductiveRights #abortion #healthcare #ClimateChange #news #fascism #journalism #nonprofit #media #environment
Hi, I hate this on a molecular level. #Media https://werd.io/2025/building-our-native-ai-newsroom
"The #monopoly #media morons for whom he’s entertained tens of millions of ad-viewing viewers deemed it so, and I’m sure it has nothing to do w Stephen #Colbert using his brilliant timing and razor-sharp wit to disembowel Don-Don on the regular"
CONT-> https://www.blueamp.co/publish/post/168652683 #writing #humor #funny #tv #ai #usa #america #unitedstates #fascism #us #russia #democracy #tech #news #politics #press #entertainment
In case you missed it, there are lots of news and media accounts you can follow on the Fediverse:
➡️ https://fedi.directory/news-media
Before you follow, you might want to familiarise yourself with Mastodon's Lists feature. There's a complete guide to using Mastodon Lists at https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists-feature-on-mastodon
Some of the news accounts post extremely frequently, and Mastodon's Lists feature provides a way of following such accounts without overwhelming your main timeline.
👋 🤔 In today's world there's a war on truth and now with AI it's often more difficult to differentiate a real news story from one that is fake.
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When I read a headline from a 'new to me', unfamiliar source, I try to remember to check it's credibility before I trust and share the article.
Here are steps I take to fact check a source and perhaps you might find this helpful:
1: Is this story reported elsewhere? (run a search)
2: If it is, and the additional sources are credible : more than likely it's true so, share✅ , if not then I proceed as follows:
If the story is Not reported elsewhere, I *combine* the following steps:
a) ask trustworthy friends if they've heard of the source
b) run a media bias check
c) check that source's previously published articles for credibility (see step #1)
d) Analyze the text/writing style and structure of the article--often AI generated print/writing appears "off", 'sterile'.
And a new step I just now discovered, thanks to @oliver_schafeld , is check the source to view information about the website using this link :
e) https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup
f) trust my "gut feeling" (often our subconscious picks up clues something is amiss. )
🧵 continued 👇