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Join our conversation with Australian journalist Eric Beecher discussing “How media moguls abuse their power, manipulate the truth and distort democracy” on Wednesday November 20, 8pm ET. Sign up here: tiny.cc/ebeecher#Press #Fox #Murdoch #Musk #Democracy

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SPECIAL EVENT: “How media moguls abuse their power, manipulate the truth and distort democracy” Zoom Wed. 11/20 at 8pm ET Join us for a conversation with Eric Beecher Australian journalist, editor and publisher Sign up tiny.cc/ebeecher#Press #Democracy #Murdoch
How media moguls abuse their power, manipulate the truth and distort democracy 
A conversation and Q&A with Eric Beecher, journalist, editor, media proprietor
 Wednesday November 20, 8pm ET 


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Carole Cadwalladr: “Elections are downstream from white men talking on platforms that white men built, juiced by invisible algorithms our broligarch overlords control. This is culture now.”
“These bros know. They don’t fear journalists any more. Journalists will now learn to fear them. Because this is oligarchy now. This is the fusion of state and commercial power in a ruling elite.”
#journalism #election #democracy #internet #socialmedia
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/a-new-era-dawns-americas-tech-bros-now-strut-their-stuff-in-the-corridors-of-power


Carole Cadwalladr: “Social media *is* mainstream media now. It’s where the majority of the world gets its news. Though who even cares about news? It’s where the world gets its memes and jokes and consumes its endlessly mutating trends. Forget ‘internet culture’. The internet *is* culture. And this is where this election was fought and won … long before a single person cast a ballot.”
#journalism #election #democracy #internet #socialmedia
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/a-new-era-dawns-americas-tech-bros-now-strut-their-stuff-in-the-corridors-of-power


Going forward, I'm tuning out journalists that talk about North American politics without talking about race, religion, and the state of our information spaces.

Economic anxiety ain't it.

#politics #journalism #democracy


@sethabramson.bsky.social

#Trump had a good election—in part because his friend Benjamin Netanyahu took actions in #Gaza cost Democrats a huge number of votes. ( Ed: Freaking predictable 🙄)

And agents in #MAGA media were also great at lying about inflation, crime, and immigration data. They were *really good* at disinformation.

#russia #ukraine #musk #putin #democracy #duginism

Full Thread 🧵 https://x.com/sethabramson/status/1855666426767401153?s=46


Trump's potential re-election would reinforce concerns that the combination of US social media platforms and their legal protections from liability for user content may be fundamentally incompatible with the civility democracy requires.

#socialmedia #democracy #misinformation


With Trump's authoritarian tendencies, we should be rightfully fearful of a further blow to US democracy now that it looks pretty likely he will again be elected.

However, another worldwide threat to democracy is the question that will now burn brightly: whether it is the best way to choose competent and dignified leaders.

#democracy #Trump


One idea for countering a media disinformation ecosystem that half the country can't break out of: a requirement for voting is to listen to a 1-hour pitch from each political party, near the voting site. Voting would take longer, but voters would invariably make decisions that align more with what they say they want. There should be enough overhead to make a person think. Whether we can recover enough of a democracy to pass such a change in law is the question.

#Democracy #Media #Voting #Law


Maybe those progressives already did, at least if they are progressive, and what remains on the hell site are supporters, ignorants and lemmings 😷

#Propaganda constructs for ending #democracy cannot be justified in a #democracy thus should be legally challenged and held to account


#FuckJoeRogan
The words in red are mine and should be everyone‘s. This jackass told millions of people over and over what a great guy tRump was. He used his oversized mic to soft sell a viscous vendetta driven creep, a supporter of institutionalized violence & racism, who is also a convicted rapist. So I’ll say it again. Fuck Joe Rogan. #USPol #tRump #Democracy
Headline = Rogan pleads with Trump: Choose unity, not revenge 

The popular podcaster hoped Trump would try and bring people together, in spite of his campaign rhetoric 

By GRIFFIN ECKSTEIN News Fellow PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 7, 2024 7:50PM (A photo of Joe Rogan by (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images) On top of his face Ive put FUCK 
JOE
ROGAN, in large enough typeface to cover most of his face.


"Aside from the horrific reality of Trump 2.0, the atrocities continue in the Middle East, Spain is drowning and the Crisafulli LNP Queensland Government is preparing to get “tough on crime” by locking up children as young as ten (which is already happening in the NT). Oh, and in case you missed it, overturning abortion is also back on the agenda up there."
#auspol #USA #election2024 #Harris #KamalaHarris #Trump #DonnieDiaper #ElonMusk #BatshitCrazy #LockHimUp #TrumpCrimeFamily #MAGAlies #Democracy #Fascism #AbolishElectoralCollege
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/trump-won--but-wait-albo-just-got-another-flight-upgrade,19150


Billionaire Big Tech corporate bosses wanted an unregulated global economy, right up to the point when people start stealing their intellectual property....

There's a reason that in Anarchy State & Utopia, Robert Nozick stops his criticisms of market regulation at patents (which he sees as a necessary regulatory intervention by the rump state)....

#BigTech #democracy


#JonathanCook | It's time to stop buying into tooth-fairy #politics. No one's bringing salvation

Harris "lost because, if your political and media system – rigged by donors – limits the choice to two hardline neoliberal candidates, with anything else denounced as “communism”, the most hardline, neoliberal candidate has an edge."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/its-time-to-stop-buying-into-tooth

#USPol #Democracy


And to everyone feeling deep pain, vulnerability and existential dread right now. I feel you. Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Stay calm, stay strong, and know that you have survived these shitheads before.

We can hold their feet to the fire, and we can protect each other from their bullshit attempts to oppress and divide.

We've got work to do, but as of polls closing, our work here is done for now.

Good night all, thank you for giving a damn.

#America #USA #Politics #Election2024 #democracy


But for those of us who cared enough to give a damn, to vote, and to otherwise commit our energy to trying to achieve the future that we deserve, give yourselves a break from the infinite political media circus.

We did our part in this. I did what little I could do, and you hopefully did too. And, other than staying generally informed and aware, that's all we can do. That's our one role.

So now we just survive and try our best to live as we please until our next chance.

#America #democracy


Well...

I voted for Harris, I tossed my pittance into the tsunami of corporate oligarch money, and now my part in this process is done for now.

Election Day is over now and the people have spoken. we've played our bit part in the biennial republic process. Count every single vote, let the chips fall where they may, and let there be a peaceful transfer of power.

Hopefully we have the chance to vote again in 2 & 4 years.

#America #politics #election2024 #democracy


on the #US election results:
#democracy is a god damn group effort-

reflect your values.
then oppose authoritarian characters. don't give them #media attention.
take active interest in court rulings.
campaign with and #vote for democratic representatives of the people.
point out officials who abuse the power they have been entrusted with.
support independent newspapers and read multiple sources.
[...] do your part.

we don't know of what will become but we sure as hell are responsible for it.


Bye bye.... American democracy pie.

https://bit.ly/ByeBye666

Goodbye #Constitution, Science Healthcare #truth - and #respect for people and #law, #justice & mindful #education.

RFK banning vaccines, #VanceVirus banning #truth, & Elon as T$ar.

The Devil is taking his due as #WAPO & #media friends reap what they sewed: #democracy, dying in the darkness, of #TrumpVirus

Speaking of the devil... from the classic album, #666 [ #AprhoditesChild] ] / #Vangelis #music #election #GQP #Project2025


What horrible news we are waking up to.

When the news in many western countries is dominated by rich, conservative owners, even if they were traditionally more left-leaning, that is the way to destroy democracies.

Democrats worldwide need to rethink and reshape their information system.

#democracy #vote #media #press


La majorité des journalistes titulaires de la carte de presse en France ne prend pas part au vote pour élire ses représentants à la Commission de la carte d’identité des journalistes professionnels

#france #journalisme #CCIJP #media #journalism #democracy #democratie #Abstention



Interestingly Oliver Heath & Laura Serra conclude that:

'While it is certainly true that class divisions are not as evident as they once were in terms of structuring vote choice, this is because class has been pushed outside the political system. Whereas previously the middle class & working class were divided on who to vote for, now they are divided on whether to bother voting at all'!

Is democracy now becoming more a middle-class activity?

#democracy #politics

https://theconversation.com/the-true-class-divide-in-british-politics-is-not-which-party-people-choose-but-whether-they-vote-at-all-240645


Racism at its best

I am so pissed off 😡

This man doesn't even know where Greece is

No matter where he is, he has to find something to spread malice

It makes me really sick

I really have to pull myself together not to become verbally aggressive...

#trump #harris #USA #milwaukee #giannis #greece #basketball #Antetokounmpo #bucks #mastodon #fediverse #democracy #election #racism


#Trump says he wouldn't mind if an assassin shot through the 'fake news' to get him

Trump complained to supporters on Sunday about gaps in the bullet-proof glass surrounding him as he spoke & mused that an #assassin would have to #shoot through the #news #media #reporters to get him, adding, "I don't mind that so much."

#Tyranny #RevengePolitics #PoliticalViolence #law #journalism #FreePress #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024


"The Harris-Walz campaign has jump-started a pro-democracy movement of the kind we have long needed in America. ...

The Harris-Walz campaign has prioritized the values of joy, hope, freedom, solidarity, unity, care, patriotism, justice, and decency."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#KamalaHarris #democracy #authoritarianism
/3

https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-harris-walz-campaign-has-created


‘Democracy doesn’t die in darkness, it dies in Sun Vallley.’
https://www.freepress.net/blog/washington-post-los-angeles-times-save-journalism-from-billionaires

#FreePress #MediaPowerCollaborative #journalism #media #democracy