NYT then:
https://archive.vn/o0DIy nymag MEDIA NOV. 9, 2020
Times Change In the Trump years, the New York Times became less dispassionate and more crusading, sparking a raw debate over the paper’s future. By Reeves Wiedeman
In August 2019, the paper ran a front-page headline — “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism” — that caused enough uproar on the left about reputation laundering on the president’s behalf that it was eventually changed to “Assailing Hate But Not Guns,” at which point the president himself joined the fray. “ ‘Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism,’ was the correct description in the first headline by the Failing New York Times,” he tweeted. “Fake News - That’s what we’re up against.”
Last month, “Opinion” published a column by a Chinese government official arguing for the country’s military crackdown in Hong Kong. It was a virtual repeat of the Cotton situation.
https://archive.vn/RvRQ5 Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon 24 Nov 2020
A new low @nytopinion: publishing state propaganda from a genocidal regime. They can't run a single OpEd by a Trump voter out of terror of a newsroom revolt, but they know their colleagues well: No fears of a reaction to the genocidal Chinese government.
Media now:
https://archive.vn/Ak16M Josh Kraushaar @HotlineJosh Nov 25, 2020
Remarkable that it took an “emergency” (post-election) for Facebook to prioritize mainstream news in its algorithm over ideologically-driven memes/junk.
Against the Grain columnist at National Journal. Political reporting & analysis, without fear or favor. (Opinions expressed here are my own.) Washington, DC
Roiled by Election, Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth
Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company’s bottom line.
By Kevin Roose, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel Nov. 24, 2020 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO — In the tense days after the presidential election, a team of Facebook employees presented the chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, with an alarming finding: Election-related misinformation was going viral on the site.
The change was part of the “break glass” plans Facebook had spent months developing for the aftermath of a contested election. It resulted in a spike in visibility for big, mainstream publishers like CNN, The New York Times and NPR, while posts from highly engaged hyperpartisan pages, such as Breitbart and Occupy Democrats, became less visible, the employees said.
What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers
Many Americans’ feeds are nightmares. I know because I spent weeks living inside two of them.
Credit...Aaron Wojack for The New York Times
By Charlie Warzel Opinion writer at large.
Nov. 24, 2020
I showed one comment thread to a colleague who doesn’t use Facebook and my colleague found it shocking. “Facebook created a town hall for fighting,” they said. “It’s almost like if you were building a machine to make a country divisive and extreme — if you were to sit down and plan what that would look like —- it would be this.”
True censorship has never been tried!