Daily Archives: October 8, 2021

2021-10-08: News Headlines

Prabir Purkayastha (2021-10-08). How Facebook algorithms promote hate and toxic content. peoplesdispatch.org Whistleblower Frances Haugen has revealed hard evidence—internal Facebook documents—that show it knew its algorithms promote dangerous content but did nothing about it so that it could maximize its advertising revenue.

Noam Chomsky (2021-10-08). It's Life and Death — Intellectuals Can't Keep Serving the Status Quo. zcomm.org In a highly fragile world facing existential threats, we need the voice of critical intellectuals more than any other time in history…

Anonymous103 (2021-10-07). Blowing the Whistle at Facebook. southfront.org The logo of the social network "Facebook" is reflected in the pupil of an eye. Joerg Koch | DAPD | | Written by Dr. Binoy Kampmark. | The only surprise was that it did not come sooner. Big Tech whistleblowers are not exactly running out of the offices of Silicon Valley, so it was with some excitement that Facebook could produce a person willing enough to show us the laundry, with the dirt still caking the content. | And the laundry in question proved to be bountiful, with internal company documents running into the thousands showing a fruit salad range of mendacity, deception and approaches to combating hate, v…

Prof. Anthony J. Hall (2021-10-07). The Mandates, Restrictions and Propaganda: The Death Knell of Universities? globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-10-07). Chinese 'Disinformation' And US Propaganda. popularresistance.org In Western media's latest anti-China crusade, unsubstantiated allegations of a Chinese disinformation campaign—which the reports themselves admit have had little engagement on social media, and nonexistent impact offline—supposedly represent a very serious threat to the US. | FAIR (3/9/17, 11/29/17, 4/9/20) has repeatedly pointed out how governments like to decry "fake news" or "disinformation" to discredit sources of unfavorable information, or to use those nebulous accusations as a cynical pretext to outright censor perspectives they dislike. Corporate media reports of "bots" or fake social media ac…

Staff (2021-10-07). Chomsky: It's Life and Death — Intellectuals Can't Keep Serving the Status Quo. truthout.org The overwhelming majority of intellectuals have historically been servants of the status quo. | That was the case more than half a century ago, when Noam Chomsky pointed out as much in his classic essay " Indeed, if anything, the number of critical/oppositional public intellectuals — in other word…

Ali Abunimah (2021-10-07). UN "expert" can't defend his attacks on Palestine solidarity. electronicintifada.net Ahmed Shaheed helps Israel lobby smear critics of its abuses and crimes.

Rick Rozoff (2021-10-07). Russian Foreign Minister accuses NATO of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Russian Foreign Minister accuses NATO of "supporting neo-Nazis" in Ukraine Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov accused the NATO of "supporting neo-Nazis" in Ukraine. He said so during the negotiations with the Alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, writes The Washington Post. According to the outlet, Lavrov made these statements during the closed session …

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