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Alex Fink

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg

July 14, 2024

Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a scholar of digital media. He and his team work to understand the contemporary digital world and build social media systems that are focused on communities, not on profits. Ethan is currently suing Meta (i.e. Facebook) in a landmark case that might (and likely should) change our interpretation of section 230. Please tune in to hear the details of the case and the various ways it could change the social media landscape. It's fascinating!

Prof. Jeff Jarvis - Rewriting Media's Business Model (Yet Again)

May 24, 2024

Jeff Jarvis is a journalism professor at the City College in New York (CUNY), the author of six books, and the cohost of the successful podcast "This week in Google and AI". Jeff spent many years teaching entrepreneurial journalism - and God knows journalism could use some entrepreneurial spirit, right about now. Please check out Jeff's books, The Gutenberg Parenthesis and Magazine, both from Bloomsbury (discount codes here: gutenbergparenthesis.com).

Donald Robertson - Where Philosophy Meets Psychology

June 22, 2024

Our guest today is Donald Robertson - Donald is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and author of several books, including How to Think Like a Roman Emperor and, more recently, Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. He is one of the founders of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit organization and the founder and president of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens, Greece. He was born in Scotland but now lives in Montreal, Canada. His upcoming book, How to Think Like Socrates, will be released later this year, and can be preordered on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or anywhere else books are generally sold.

Rick Edmonds - Analyzing the Financial Decline of Legacy Media

July 8, 2024

Rick Edmonds is the media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a school and study center for working journalists. He has been doing research and writing for 25 years on the financial decline of legacy media, newspapers particularly, and the rise of new media alternatives. His reporting and commentary appear regularly on the Poynter Online site. He has spoken to conference groups in the U.S.A. and in Paris, Norway, Madrid, Vienna and Chile.

Jonathan Green - How To Make ChatGPT and Other Tools Useful (Right Now)

July 5, 2024

Welcome to the Otherweb. Our guest today is Jonathan Green - a bestselling author of hundreds of books, a celebrity ghostwriter, and an expert in using artificial intelligence tools to their utmost capacity. This is the best conversation I've had on the practical implications of ChatGPT and how regular people can augment their own capabilities by using these tools as a shortcut.

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📌 Death Sentences Commuted, Cough Spreads, More

Angela Palmer

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TOP STORY

TOP STORY

Biden commutes death row sentences

HEALTH

HEALTH

Persistent, long-lasting cough spreads

WORLD

WORLD

Uncontacted Amazon communities grow

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Fact Check

Fact Check

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Video from Florida copter crash used in false claims about Nigerian banker’s death

Fact Check

Summary

Nutrition label

68% Informative

Herbert Wigwe was killed in an air crash in California on February 9, 2024 .

Several social media accounts published a video they alleged showed the accident site.

The video featured the wreckage of a crash that occurred the same day in Naples , Florida .

AFP Fact Check spotted other discrepancies between the misleading clip and the actual crash.

VR Score

54

Informative language

44

Neutral language

18

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

43

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

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https://perma.cc/UDU7-9J3M https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/helicopter-leaving-palm-springs-crashes-near-baker-search-for-passengers-continues/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mGK1cj8vJ4 https://archive.ph/OqlF2 https://www.barrons.com/news/boss-of-nigeria-s-biggest-bank-dies-in-us-helicopter-crash-d4135461 https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/statements https://perma.cc/86TB-R7R4 https://archive.ph/BklAq https://perma.cc/8EJH-2SVZ https://archive.ph/KC0hn https://perma.cc/8C6R-B8JC https://factcheck.afp.com/how-do-reverse-image-search https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Herbert%20Wigwe https://perma.cc/SCX4-XGVL https://perma.cc/DNW4-SM9K https://perma.cc/Q54K-2KE7 https://www.voanews.com/a/search-for-answers-begins-after-jet-crashes-on-florida-highway/7482292.html https://perma.cc/VJ6N-4L2Q https://apnews.com/article/private-jet-lands-interstate-florida-0ba28196a96200135a3056a4fa614110 http://nixle.us/F77WT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkBJEua5O3A https://perma.cc/EH47-S2NV

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perma.cc www.cbsnews.com www.youtube.com archive.ph www.barrons.com www.faa.gov factcheck.afp.com search.yahoo.com www.voanews.com apnews.com nixle.us

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