The social media giant decided to permanently suspend Trump for his role in inciting the breach of the Capitol.
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President Trump is not the only one in his orbit stoking far right violence for political gain.
“Ballad of an American” tells the tale of Paul Robeson’s role in the earliest civil rights movement to a new generation.
Independent journalism and critical media literacy provide protections where corporate-sponsored fact checkers fail.
Facebook’s tools have allowed Trump’s bogus and dangerous claims of election impropriety and voter fraud to go viral.
To confront corporate media’s profit-driven logic, we must encourage close criticism but not all-out dismissal.
Providing a “false balance” in mainstream news puts us in a dangerous position.
Use of the TikTok app by those who already have it will be banned starting November 12, unless the company can be sold.
Journalist Bob Woodward’s behavior was as purely transactional as Trump’s.
It remains to be seen whether this initial purge is the harbinger of larger things to come.