Progressive Briefing for Thursday, September 20
Lawsuit filed against officers for false arrest, mosquitoes could spread microplastics, Feds pledge more funds to target violence against Native American women, and more.
More children were killed by guns in 2017 than police officers and active military...
The deaths of school-age children in the United States to guns has become an epidemic.
Let’s find many ways to share the goods of our society
Ideas can improve society. But they can also be destructive.
The exploitation time bomb
Since reducing inequality became an official goal of the international community, income disparities have widened. This trend, typically blamed on trade liberalization and technological advances...
The most enduring media cover up
Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew is a very clear thinker on the issue of Palestine-Israel and provides the data and language we need to speak to a propagandized population.
ProPublica’s embrace of large language models echoes what I’ve been saying all along
This distinction between “AI” as a vague, catch-all term and the specific type of advanced pattern-finding model actually at play here matters immensely.
Glenn Greenwald: Mainstream U.S. media is culpable for disseminating fake & deceitful news on...
"Any story that bolsters the prevailing D.C. orthodoxy on the Russia Threat, no matter how dubious, is spread far and wide."
The only fake news that provably threw the election to Trump was not Russian
The Democrats introduced the term “fake news” just days after losing the election.
Donald Trump’s Ajit (Pai)-prop
President Trump knows how to use the mass media, and social media, to manipulate public opinion and sway voters.
Sunday shows barely mentioned the 2018 Women’s March
The longest mention was a meager 20 seconds on NBC’s Meet The Press. Other shows were worse.