From the New York Times, famous for:

Pulitzer Prize-winning, 1930s Ukraine famine never happened;

https://archive.vn/iUn6I thefederalist How The New York Times Contributed To Ukraine’s ‘Bitter Harvest’ In The 1930s Joseph Stalin received great publicity, the New York Times published exclusive interviews with Stalin, and Walter Duranty could live glamorously. Everyone benefitted but starving Ukranians. By Eugene Veklerov MARCH 24, 2017

Pulitzer Prize-winning, 1619 Creative Writing Project;

https://archive.vn/HQ7sS nypost The only Pulitzer the 1619 Project deserved was for fiction By Post Editorial Board May 4, 2020 | 7:22pm

Comes NYT Magazine Emily Bazelon's:

Final Solution to the 1st Amendment Question

A repeat of last year!

https://archive.vn/9ouEl nyt Opinion Free Speech Is Killing Us Noxious language online is causing real-world violence. What can we do about it? By Andrew Marantz Mr. Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, is the author of the forthcoming book “Antisocial.” Oct. 4, 2019

https://archive.vn/9BfJe Oct 14, 2020 Emily Bazelon @emilybazelon

Is the American First Amendment the best way to protect free speech? For @NYTMag, I argue that the answer is ... maybe not. At least, we should consider how democracies in Europe & Canada etc do it, by balancing free speech w other pro-democratic values.

and here is a great new piece by @andrewmarantz drilling down on the internal machinations about content moderation at Facebook. /14

https://archive.vn/tti4W newyorker

A Reporter at Large October 19, 2020 Issue Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem? By Andrew Marantz

New book, CHARGED, out now. (Find it at emilybazelon. com). Staff writer NYT Mag. Co-host Slate Political Gabfest. Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School.  New Haven, CT

https://archive.vn/2UfT0 nytimes magazine

The first ammendment in the age of disinformation. By Emily Bazelon

Mad about Transition Integrity Project coup squad being found out:

On Sept. 9, a post appeared on Revolver News, a new right-wing website. It claimed without evidence that one participant in the Transition Integrity Project, Norm Eisen, who served as a counsel for the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings, was a “central operative” in a “color revolution” against Trump, a term for uprisings that have toppled governments in countries like Georgia and Ukraine. Trump tweeted in praise of Revolver News a few days later.

Mad about websites nobody reads and a radio show. A motherfucking radio show in 2020. Radio makes leftists angry.

A working paper from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard released early this month found that effective disinformation campaigns are often an “elite-driven, mass-media led process” in which “social media played only a secondary and supportive role.” Trump’s election put him in the position to operate directly through Fox News and other conservative media outlets, like Rush Limbaugh’s talk-radio show, which have come to function “in effect as a party press,” the Harvard researchers found.

Like "democracies" such as European "Union", Cubanada, New Cuckland...

For the European Union, as well as democracies like Canada and New Zealand, free speech is not an absolute right from which all other freedoms flow. The European high courts have allowed states to punish incitements of racial hatred or denial of the Holocaust, for example. Germany and France have laws that are designed to prevent the widespread dissemination of hate speech and election-related disinformation.

The REAL authoritarians are democracies, so we use authority to censor all the damn non-leftists. Censorship is democracy, I swear.

“Much of the recent authoritarian experience in Europe arose out of democracy itself,” explains Miguel Poiares Maduro, board chairman of the European Digital Media Observatory, a project on online disinformation at the European University Institute. “The Nazis and others were originally elected. In Europe, there is historically an understanding that democracy needs to protect itself from anti-democratic ideas. It’s because of the different democratic ethos of Europe that Europe has accepted more restrictions on speech.”

Free speech is about protecting Clinton, Marcon, etc. ...and my best friend Chairman Mao.

When Russian operatives hacked into the computers of the Democratic National Committee, they gave their stolen trove of D.N.C. emails to WikiLeaks, which released the emails in batches to do maximum damage to Clinton and her party in the months before the election. The news media covered the stolen emails extensively, providing information so the public could weigh it, even if a foreign adversary had planted it.

STRANGLE SMALL INDEPENDENT MEDIA - t. New York Times

Yet the French media did not cover them. Le Monde, a major French newspaper, explained that the hack had “the obvious purpose of undermining the integrity of the ballot.”

Marine Le Pen, Macron’s far-right opponent, accused the news media of a partisan cover-up. But she had no sympathetic outlet to turn to, because there is no equivalent of Fox News or Breitbart in France. ... The faint impact of the Macron hack “is a good illustration of how it’s impossible to succeed at manipulation of the news just on social media,” said Arnaud Mercier, a professor of information and political communication at the University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. “The hackers needed the sustainment of the traditional media.”

Problem: Trump. Solution: Give government more power

Claim: Pubilcly funded news is non-partisan. Reality:

https://archive.vn/a2E26 amren Media Silence on Anti-ICE Terrorism Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, July 22, 2019

Kim Kelly of (NPR) Teen Vogue called him a “heroic comrade” and claimed he was merely engaging in “righteous sabotage” — though one of Mr. Van Spronsen’s friends told the Seattle Times his actions were essentially “suicide.” Corporate outlets such as BuzzFeed calmly covered the attack, and let antifa make their arguments without rebuttal.

The government, federal or state, could invest in efforts to do exactly that. It could stop the decline of local reporting by funding nonprofit journalism. It could create new publicly funded TV or radio to create more alternatives for media that appeals across the ideological spectrum. The only obstacles to such cures for America’s disinformation ills are political.

Please allow Google to tell us how their trade secret black box AI works! LMAO

The Rutgers law professor Goodman and others have proposed using Section 230 as leverage to push the platforms to be more transparent, for example, by disclosing how their algorithms order people’s news feeds and recommendations and how much disinformation and hate speech they circulate. A quid pro quo could go further, requiring the companies to change their algorithms or identify super-spreaders of disinformation and slow the virality of their posts. To make sure new media sites can enter the market, the government could exempt small start-ups but impose conditions on platforms with tens of millions of users.

Ideal Socialist subject or National Socialist subject?

https://archive.vn/G1EtP reclaimthenet September 30, 2020 Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says those who don’t conform to activism in business will be shot By Cindy Harper Posted 11:31 pm An assertion of political violence towards those that don't conform.

https://archive.vn/hrXQj newdiscourses Critical Theories: A Virus on a Liberal Body Politic MARCH 17, 2020 ·JAMES LINDSAY

From this description, it’s immediately clear that critical theory is a different kind of project than critical thinking. It...must resist, disrupt, dismantle, and subvert critical thinking because critical thinking is already part of the existing hegemonic system of dominance that defines society.

The ideal subject of fascist ideology was the person “for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e. the reality of experience),” Arendt wrote, “and the distinction between true and false (i.e. the standards of thought) no longer exist.” An information war may seem to simply be about speech. But Arendt understood that what was at stake was far more.