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Fired Journalist Says Bari Weiss Pushed to Air Propaganda on CBS News
“Bari Weiss is not a journalist. She is an asset of the Trump administration,” said progressive group Our Revolution.
Pentagon Announces Policy Designating Its Press Office as a “Classified Area”
“This is the most transparent War Department in history,” a Pentagon official said following the policy barring media.
Critics Slam FCC Move to Update Ratings System to Include Trans Content Warnings
“This is a solution in search of a problem,” the lone Democratic member of the FCC said.
Palestinians Battle the Algorithms of Israeli Censorship and Surveillance
Palestinian digital autonomy has been constrained by settler colonialism bolstered by neoliberal privatization.
Visuals Help Expose the Realities of Mass Incarceration to a Wider Audience
A Brooklyn exhibition in collaboration with Mariame Kaba features paintings about prisons, incarceration, and abolition.
Trump Isn’t Just Bullying Journalists. He’s Subverting the First Amendment.
The right attacked Biden for “jawboning” social media. Now Trump is doing it explicitly to control cable news.
Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds in Lebanon Amid Fears of an Imminent Ground Invasion
People don’t feel like anywhere is safe in an unpredictable war that has no limits, says reporter Kareem Chehayeb.
Tehran Residents’ Social Media Offer Nightmarish Glimpse of Humanitarian Crisis
Oily smoke. Black rain. Destroyed apartments. Loved ones killed by airstrikes. Iran will not recover soon from this.
Trump Floats Treason Charges Against Media Outlets Over Iran War Coverage
The FCC chair also threatened to pull the broadcasting licenses of media outlets he accused of “running hoaxes.”
In Era of Book Bans and War on History, Sinners Reveals What US Tries to Forget
Sinners deserves to win Oscars: It’s a blues poem, a freedom cry, and a love letter to powerful culture.