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“Three years ago, I would have said that every platform is super different from the others. Now they’ve all become quite similar.”
“We ask people every day to let us in at their worst moments. To give nothing of ourselves in return sometimes feels like denying that we’re [also] people in this equation.”
“The weight of coverage shouldn’t have to fall on the shoulders of a select few, but rather on the organization as a whole. I am here to make sure of that.”
A number of efforts are underway to document not just the content created on the platform but how Black women used it for communication and community — along with the abuse they received.
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“If you want it to show personality, you really have to push it, at times, to a personality that’s not akin to Michael Scott from ‘The Office.’”
A new study looks at “the widespread culture of harassing journalists in South Korea.”
“We might have lost our blue checkmark on Twitter, but we’re already verified on Bluesky!”
“The very idea of collectively tuning in to history as it happens has been altered, as the profusion of channels and platforms now funnels audience members into self-segregated affinity groups where messages are shaped more for confirmation than enlightenment.”
Plus: How participatory journalism became a taken-for-granted norm, how news use can help mitigate misinformation beliefs, and the limits of live fact-checking.
“The ‘first and most voiced complaint’ from participants was that news coverage of people like them skewed toward negative stories or reflected them in a negative light.”