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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 4, 2022, 12:37 am
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A different angle:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/20-years-alexis-patterson-still-205439409.html
[quote]It’s Been 20 Years: Alexis Patterson, a Black girl, is
still Missing but the World Found Elizabeth Smart
Alexis Patterson went missing May 3, 2002 after she was dropped
off at school. A month after she disappeared, a young white girl
named Elizabeth Smart went missing after being abducted from her
home. Smart was found nine months after her abduction but
Patterson’s mother is still looking for Alexis 20 years later.
Unfortunately, race may be the reason why.
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Smart’s
disappearance gained much more attention than Patterson’s. From
the “Larry King Live Show” to “America’s Most Wanted,” her story
became a national topic while Patterson’s drowned in the noise.
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Before we continue:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King
[quote]King was born in Brooklyn on November 19, 1933.[10] He
was one of two children of Jennie (née Gitlitz; 1905–1990), a
garment worker who was born in Minsk, Russian Empire, and Aaron
Zeiger (1898–1942), a restaurant owner and defense-plant worker
who was born in Pinsk, Russian Empire.[11][12][13] His parents
were Orthodox Jews who immigrated to the United States from
Belarus in the 1930s.[1][14][15]
...
In 2017, he stated "I love being Jewish, am proud of my
Jewishness, and I love Israel".[120][/quote]
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/
Back to first link:
[quote]The police also called in the FBI the day after Smart
vanished and offered a reward $200,000 more than Patterson’s.
The FBI didn’t get to Patterson’s case until three days after
she went missing.[/quote]
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Continuing:
[quote]In 2020, nearly 100,000 Black women and girls went
missing and their names rarely go viral. It’s due to the simple
fact that they will never get the same attention a white girl
does.
More from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Twenty years ago, as police searched for the two girls, some
advocates and experts argued that race was a key factor in how
authorities and reporters handled their cases. It marked the
first time the national media paid serious attention to such
disparities.
Two years later, Black journalist Gwen Ifill gave the
phenomenon a name: “missing white woman syndrome.” She coined
the term after the disappearance of Laci Peterson, a pregnant
California woman whose husband was later convicted of killing
her. It played out again in 2005, when Natalee Holloway vanished
on a class trip to Aruba.
The disappearance of Gabby Petito also brought the issue of
“missing white woman syndrome” to public attention. Researchers
found missing Black people get less media attention but many
complex factors play a role in it, per Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel. Racial diversity in newsrooms, socioeconomic status of
Black victims, the neighborhoods missing Black children are from
and the way police categorize disappearances contribute to the
disparity.[/quote]
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 3, 2022, 5:37 pm
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HTML https://theintercept.com/2022/08/27/facebook-instagram-meta-russia-ukraine-war/
[quote]FACEBOOK TELLS MODERATORS TO ALLOW GRAPHIC IMAGES OF
RUSSIAN AIRSTRIKES BUT CENSORS ISRAELI ATTACKS
Internal memos show Meta deemed attacks on Ukrainian civilians
“newsworthy” — prompting claims of a double standard among
Palestine advocates.
...
It’s become a pattern: Palestinians post sometimes graphic
videos and images of Israeli attacks, and Meta swiftly removes
the content, providing only an oblique reference to a violation
of the company’s “Community Standards” or in many cases no
explanation at all.
Not all the billions of users on Meta’s platforms, however, run
into these issues when documenting the bombing of their
neighborhoods.
Previously unreported policy language obtained by The Intercept
shows that this year the company repeatedly instructed
moderators to deviate from standard procedure and treat various
graphic imagery from the Russia-Ukraine war with a light touch.
Like other American internet companies, Meta responded to the
invasion by rapidly enacting a litany of new policy carveouts
designed to broaden and protect the online speech of Ukrainians,
specifically allowing their graphic images of civilians killed
by the Russian military to remain up on Instagram and Facebook.
No such carveouts were ever made for Palestinian victims of
Israeli state violence — nor do the materials show such latitude
provided for any other suffering population.[/quote]
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 10, 2022, 6:11 pm
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 4, 2022, 7:22 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-continues-to-auto-generate-pages-for-the-proud-boys-other-extremist-groups-194527393.html
[quote]Four years after Facebook first banned the Proud Boys,
the social network is still creating new content on behalf of
the far-right extremist group, as well as dozens of other white
supremacists, militias and known terrorist organizations, in
apparent violation of its own stated policies.
According to recent findings by the Tech Transparency Project
(TTP), an industry watchdog, Facebook not only regularly allows
users to display in their profiles names of extremist groups,
including some that have been explicitly banned from the site,
but then autogenerates pages for those groups, increasing their
visibility and giving their supporters a place to connect.
...
“Are Facebook's detection systems really as good as they claim,
if their own systems where these explicit terms and groups are
banned are actually creating pages for them?” asked TTP’s
director, Katie Paul. “How can we trust what they say about
safety and security when Facebook doesn't just fail to remove,
but actually creates extremist content?”
Over the years, Facebook has faced scrutiny over the way its
platform has been used by terrorists, hate groups and other
violent actors to organize and promote harmful content. In
response, it has announced a number of efforts to crack down on
an ever-expanding list of dangerous individuals and
organizations, using a combination of advanced artificial
intelligence and human moderators.
But extremism experts and whistleblowers have criticized these
measures as ineffective, noting that blacklisted groups
regularly fall through the cracks, often remaining active on the
platform well after they’ve been banned.
...
Since then, TTP has produced multiple reports on the
autogenerated extremist pages, which Facebook has continued to
produce despite increased scrutiny over the platform’s role in
facilitating the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and election
conspiracy theories, and permitting organizing by groups that
stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Among others, TTP has found that Facebook continues to
autogenerate pages for a number of far-right paramilitary groups
whose members have been charged in connection with the
insurrection, including the Oath Keepers and the Three
Percenters. The FBI has accused members of the Oath Keepers —
including one of the group’s leaders currently on trial for
seditious conspiracy — of using Facebook Messenger to track down
members of Congress while the Capitol was under siege.
...
The same study also found that Facebook’s algorithm often
recommended other extremist content to users who visited the
white supremacist pages, and that searches for these groups were
often monetized.
...
“This is the platform itself creating, essentially, meeting
spots, like locus points for terrorist supporters to gather…
[and] enabling terrorists to spread content and narratives
farther,” Ayad said. “In terms of being able to confront the
issue of online terrorist [activity], that’s a big problem.”
Facebook executives — including CEO Mark Zuckerberg — have
repeatedly dodged questions from lawmakers about the company's
practice of autogenerating pages for groups involved in
real-world violence.
...
“Despite Facebook's misleading rhetoric about social
responsibility and community building, they are at its core a
capitalist endeavor that has no moral values and will do
anything to make money, including fostering hate and
facilitating crime,” said Nelson. “And as long as they can get
away with it and make the money that they're aiming to make,
they're going to continue to do it.”[/quote]
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 2, 2022, 7:51 pm
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 8, 2022, 6:32 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTxDk4aFzE
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/old-content/msg16958/#msg16958
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 10, 2022, 12:46 am
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 3, 2023, 3:04 am
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 8, 2023, 8:48 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-twitter-employee-tells-aoc-195811371.html
[quote]Ex-Twitter employee tells AOC the platform changed its
content moderation policy to accommodate Trump's racist 'go
back' tweets
...
"My team made the recommendation that for the first time, we
find Donald Trump in violation of Twitter's policies and use the
public interest interstitial," former Twitter employee Anika
Navaroli, who worked on the company's content moderation team,
testified to lawmakers.
...
the social network later decided to bend its policies to allow
the president's message. Navaroli testified that her team's
finding was overruled by Twitter's vice president of trust and
safety Del Harvey.
...
Navaroli also said that at the time Twitter included an example
of using the phrase "go back to your country" in a list of
banned language against immigrants. She said that this content
moderation guidance was suddenly changed in the days after
Trump's tweet was allowed to stand unchanged.[/quote]
And this was pre-Musk Twitter (which Musk claimed had a leftist
bias)!
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Re: Mainstream media rightist bias
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 20, 2023, 8:37 pm
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As we expected:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/research-teen-social-media-racial-132019452.html
[quote]Research on teen social media use has a racial bias –
studies of white kids are widely taken to be universal
Most research on teen social media use has been conducted on
white teens and college students. As a result, it is unclear to
what extent overlooked populations such as racial and ethnic
minorities, sexual and gender minorities and other vulnerable
adolescent populations may be using social media in different
ways.
You may have read about research on teen social media use in
newspapers or other media outlets, but you might not be aware of
the limitations of that research. Rarely do press reports
mention the details of the sample populations studied. Instead,
they generalize research that is often based largely on white
teens to all youths.
...
We found that commonly accepted portrayals of teens online
distort or obscure the experiences of teens of color. These
teens often have different online experiences, face different
harms and may be using social media to share and present
underrepresented aspects of themselves and their
experiences.[/quote]
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