"The American-Filipino journalist [Maria Ressa] said Mark Zuckerberg’s move to relax content moderation on the Facebook and Instagram platforms would lead to a 'world without facts' and that was 'a world that’s right for a dictator'.'"

~ Dan Milmo

#MarkZuckerberg #ElonMusk #Trump #media #Meta #Facebook #disinformation #dictatorship #bullying #race #gender #SexualOrientation
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/08/facebook-end-factchecking-nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-ressa

Young Londoners design emojis to celebrate Black and mixed-race hairstyles

https://www.positive.news/society/emojis-celebrate-black-mixed-race-hairstyles/

#EMOJIS #LONDON #RACE #RISE365 #KEWLNEWS #PRESS

"Media’s empathetic coverage of Luigi Mangione reveals an obsession with humanizing white male suspects."

~ Gloria Oladipo

Yes. And unfortunately, many of us do not want to hear or think about this important perspective on the Mangione story and why he has been embraced with such alacrity by folks on both right and left — while a man of color or a woman doing what Mangione did would not be similarly embraced.

#LuigiMangione #race #gender

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/luigi-mangione-racism-media

Media’s empathetic coverage of Luigi Mangione reveals an obsession with humanizing white male suspects https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/luigi-mangione-racism-media #BrianThompsonshooting #Healthcareindustry #Guncrime #UScrime #USnews #Media #Race

Sherrilynn Ifill's commentary on how – and why – race and gender have been excised from analysis of the recent election is must-read analysis.

As she says, the "cohort of political experts" who dissect election results in the media may have particular knowledge and expertise, but "they also very particular blind-spots."

#Harris #Trump #race #gender #media
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https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/why-have-race-and-gender-been-erased

‘They blew it’: Democrats lost 22,000 votes in Michigan’s heavily Arab American cities https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/09/democrats-lose-michigan-arab-american-voters #Palestinianterritories #USelections2024 #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump #Republicans #USpolitics #Democrats #Michigan #USnews #Islam #Race #Gaza

Fear in undocumented communities over Trump’s mass deportation threats https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/07/trump-mass-deportation-immigration-fears #USelections2024 #US-Mexicoborder #USimmigration #DonaldTrump #Republicans #Arizona #Phoenix #Texas #Ohio #Race #Gaza