• Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Social Media • Threat Management

    America’s Press Freedom is Under Attack

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

    Published On: 07/24/2025

  • Journalism • Resistance • Social Media

    Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

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    Published On: 07/13/2025

  • Featured • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Media • Technology

    Technology: The Frontline of the Battle for Press Freedom

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Press Freedom • Social Media

    Noise and Silence in Authoritarian Propaganda

    Ruth Ben-Ghiat

    Lucid

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    Published On: 05/08/2025

  • Press Freedom • Social Media

    Streamer detained at the border and questioned for hours

    Taylor Lorenz

    usermag.com

    Piker's detention occurs against a backdrop of increasing scrutiny of political activists and commentators, especially those who challenge the administration’s policies on Israel.

    Published On: 05/07/2025

  • Global • Social Media

    Digital Authoritarianism

    Scot Nakagawa

    The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook

    Lessons from Duterte's Philippines for the United States.

    Published On: 05/06/2025

  • Social Media

    Trump’s TikTok Takeover

    Oliver Darcy

    Status

    TikTok’s fate still remains unclear, but if it stays in the U.S., it won’t be free—it’ll be bound to Donald Trump, giving him and the GOP a propaganda machine like no other.

    Published On: 04/02/2025

  • Social Media

    Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on her company’s ascendant year and what she’s planning next

    MAX UFBERG

    Fast Company

    Yet Bluesky isn’t just a repository for social media’s disaffected. It’s also the best example of how “federation”—a buzzy Silicon Valley term that describes a structure wherein multiple independent groups collaborate to share information—can build a more equitable and independent social media experience.

    Published On: 03/18/2025

  • Social Media

    The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces

    KAYLA GOGARTY

    Media Matters

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    Published On: 03/14/2025

  • Social Media • Technology

    Move Fast and Destroy Democracy

    Kara Swisher

    The Atlantic

    Silicon Valley’s titans have decided that ruling the digital world is not enough.

    Published On: 03/09/2025

  • Social Media • Threat Management

    Amid Meta Policy Changes, Neo-Nazis Monetize Hate on Instagram

    Global Project Against Hate and Extremism

    globalextremism.org

    In this new more permissive online environment, an investigation by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) has discovered neo-Nazi activity flourishing on Instagram, including degrading hate speech, antisemitic conspiracism, and even Nazi symbols being used to sell merchandise.

    Published On: 02/06/2025

  • Disinformation • Journalism • Resistance • Social Media

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    David Fenton

    Framelab

    The oil, coal, and gas industries are now effectively running all branches of government.

    Published On: 01/30/2025

  • Journalism • Social Media

    The Media Pipeline

    GEORGE A. POLISNER

    https://bomdia.substack.com

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    Published On: 10/14/2024

  • Social Media • Technology

    Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism

    Morgan Meaker

    Wired

    In Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and Meta have treated their users like modern-day serfs.

    Published On: 04/09/2024

  • Recommended • Social Media • Technology

    Yuval Noah Harari Is Worried About Our Souls

    Steve Paulson

    Nautilus

    If you want to destroy the ability to have a meaningful public conversation, you discover the fears and hatreds of people and magnify them.

    Published On: 12/26/2018

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