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☆ Public officials have new rules about blocking you on social media, SCOTUS decides
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

SCOTUS on Friday established new rules for the social media accounts of public officials. AdvertisementThe US Supreme Court on Friday handed down a decision establishing new rules for how public officials must behave on social media. Accounts clearly marked as personal, even if run by a state official, are granted more leniency and protection under the First Amendment. Advertisement"The distinction between private conduct and state action turns on substance, not labels: Private parties can act with the authority of the State, and state officials have private lives and their own constitutional rights," she continued. The issue of allowing public officials to block users on social media has been heard by the court before, when in 2017, Trump was challenged by the Knight Foundation over his choice to block critics on Twitter.

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Pitchfork announced it was no longer a freestanding music site, after digital publications BuzzFeed News and Jezebel disappeared last year. Even The Washington Post, whose subscriptions boomed during the Trump administration, has seen a falloff, leading its management to acknowledge that it was too optimistic in expansion plans and needed to cut costs. THE PATH FORWARD IS JUST AS BUMPYSome of the troubled outlets also have unique issues that contributed to their problems. “We need journalists in society, and we will find a way to fill that need,” he said. But in the short run, it's going to be ugly.”___David Bauder covers media for The Associated Press.

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☆ Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is pouring millions of dollars into combating AI's dark side
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Since the 2015 debut of Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the entrepreneur has donated many millions of dollars to various causes involving media and technology. Newmark, 70, spoke to CNBC as he was recovering from a minor heart procedure he went through in late August. At the same time, he's worried that tech companies, particularly in social media, "aren't even trying anymore to get rid of stuff they know is dishonest," he said. "Protecting kids when it comes to AI is a big issue," Newmark said, regarding his donation to Common Sense Media. Within journalism, Newmark's most high-profile endeavor is the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School in Journalism.

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“This is hugely important, both practically and symbolically,” said Tim Franklin, director of the Local News Initiative at Northwestern University's Medill journalism school. The Carnegie Corp., the Democracy Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and MacArthur are among a group of 20 initial funders. Philanthropies that recognize the need to strengthen democracy are beginning to see that progress on many different issues depends on the public's understanding of facts, said John Palfrey, MacArthur Foundation president. He said he expected other funding will be added in the coming months to boost the commitment beyond $500 million. Struggling local news sources have also attracted the attention of state governments, where things like tax breaks for advertisers or subscribers are being discussed, he said.

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☆ Illumen Capital just closed its second fund worth $168 million to tackle racial and gender bias in asset management using this 10-slide LP deck
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A fund of funds investing to make venture capital more equitable just closed its second fund. Oakland-based Illumen Capital secured $168 million to back people of color and women. An impact fund of funds tackling racial and gender bias in asset management has just closed its second $168 million fund with the Ford Foundation and W.K. As a fund of funds, Illumen Capital hopes to solve this by addressing implicit biases. When looking at the data, Illumen Capital found that they had the same revenue marks as white entrepreneurs not considered too early.

☆ Alarming new study finds half of Americans believe news organizations intend to mislead and misinform with their reporting
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Perhaps more startling: the report found that 72% of Americans believe national newsrooms are capable of serving the public, but that they do not believe they’re well intentioned. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. 61% of respondents said the increase in information across the media landscape has made it harder to sort bad information from good. The media landscape has fractured and it’s not uncommon to now see the same story presented in entirely different ways to different audiences. What is also clear is that the truth will offend members of one political party far more than the other.

Nov 29 (Reuters) - Twitter's former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth on Tuesday said the social media company was not safer under new owner Elon Musk, warning in his first interview since resigning this month that the company no longer had enough staff for safety work. Roth had tweeted after Musk's takeover that by some measures, Twitter safety had improved under the billionaire's ownership. His departure further rattled advertisers, many of whom backed away from Twitter after Musk laid off half of the staff, including many involved with content moderation. Before Musk assumed the helm at Twitter, about 2,200 people globally were focused on content moderation work, said Roth. Musk tweeted on Nov. 19 that Trump's account would be reinstated after a slim majority voted in favor of the move in a surprise Twitter poll.

☆ Twitter's former trust & safety chief says 'Twitter needs Apple a lot more than Apple needs Twitter'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk had said Apple threatened to remove Twitter from its App Store "but won't tell us why." Roth said it would take something "dramatic" to happen for Apple to remove Twitter. "I think Twitter needs Apple a lot more than Apple needs Twitter," Roth said at the Knight Foundation's "Informed" conference on Tuesday. Musk also said that Apple had threatened Twitter's place in its App Store "but won't tell us why." "It would require something really dramatic to happen for Apple to remove Twitter from the App Store.

☆ Twitter's former trust and safety head said it's unfair to paint Elon Musk as the 'villain' of Twitter's story
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Twitter's former trust & safety chief said Musk wasn't a "villain" in his experience at Twitter. Musk could've made bad decisions in the early days of his tenure but declined, said the former exec. "I don't know that he has a lot of people around him who push back on him," he said of Musk. But Roth said the first few days of Musk's tenure "were sort of storm clouds, and they parted." Musk had multiple opportunities to make bad and damaging decisions at Twitter but declined, according to Roth.

☆ Twitter's former trust & safety chief, who once said the platform was safer under Elon Musk, now says he believes the opposite
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Twitter is not safer under Elon Musk, according to Twitter's former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth. The statement is a reversal for Roth, who wrote the opposite in a New York Times op-ed earlier this month. Twitter said it would stop enforcing its COVID-19 misleading info policy, which Roth called "damaging." There is no 'set it and forget it' when it comes to trust and safety." Twitter laid off 50% of its staff earlier this month, and Musk has since laid off even more workers.

☆ Twitter's former trust and safety head says it might be hard for Elon Musk to understand the impact of his tweets because he's 'the richest man on the planet'
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former Twitter executive Yoel Roth said Musk's wealth might stop him from seeing the "consequences" of his tweets. Since taking over Twitter, Musk has sent several tweets containing inaccurate information. Yoel Roth, who was Twitter's former head of trust & safety until earlier this month, spoke at the Knight Foundation's "Informed" conference on Tuesday about Musk's use of the platform. "That's the core of what the work of trust and safety is. "I think it may be hard to understand the consequences that his tweets can have for the people he targets," Roth said.

☆ The hotly anticipated media startup Semafor has launched, creating the 'Semaform' article structure to separate news from opinion
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The company has created "Semaform," a way to separate news and opinion in articles. Semafor, the hotly anticipated media startup that grabbed industry attention before it even launched, is finally here. Led by former Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith and former New York Times media columnist and BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief Ben Smith, the outlet began publishing Tuesday morning with the lofty ambition of "solving certain significant news consumer frustrations," Justin Smith told Insider. "We have a long runway through 2023 and moving into 2024 on a revenue front and a cost front," Justin Smith said. Overall, the target readership is "very much the news omnivore" and people who are "opinion leaders" in business, finance, and tech, Justin Smith said.

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