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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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Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about social media platform, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 18 stories have been published about social media platform which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.

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Mashable

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Bluesky reacts to Matt Gaetz withdrawal as Trump's attorney general nominee

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BBC

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Keir Starmer says he has no plans to join Bluesky yet

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VOA

VOA

A dancing Trump finds internet fame in China

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Wired

Wired

Searching for the Next Social Media Fix for the Next Trump Era

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The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast

Partners at EF Hutton, the Firm Backing Truth Social, Spent Money on Prostitutes, Drugs, Strippers and Gambling, Lawsuits Say

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Mashable

Mashable

Bluesky gains half a million new users in one day after X changes how blocking works

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TheStreet

TheStreet

US states accuse TikTok of targeting children in disturbing lawsuit

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Reddit communities will require permission while going private or swithcing to NSFW | TechCrunch

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Guardian

Guardian

How China’s internet police went from targeting bloggers to their followers

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South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post

TikTok leads tech grumbles over Malaysia’s new social media licence

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Elon Musk and Donald Trump's X space crashes | TechCrunch

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Newsweek

Newsweek

Mark Cuban confronts Elon Musk on suppressing "truths"

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Insider

Insider

Mark Zuckerberg said social media on phones can be 'anti-social,' which is part of why he cares about Ray-Ban smart glasses

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch

Newly launched social network Maven loses its co-founders | TechCrunch

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RTE.ie

RTE.ie

Executives to be 'accountable' for harmful online content

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South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post

China in Weibo crackdown, bans 300 accounts after fans attack Chen for winning gold

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SeekingAlpha

SeekingAlpha

Over 50 U.S. lawmakers and 21 states back DoJ’s defense in TikTok ban

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