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25 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Reading legislation by my rep, @RepMalinowski--whom I support & vote for--re #230, the "Dangerous Algorithms Act."
a. It is limited to interference in civil rights & terrorism. Good.
b. But very concerned about that #technopanic language. 1/
malinowski.house.gov/sites/malinows…
c. It applies to any site that uses any "algorithm, model, or computational process to rank, order, promote, recommend, amplify, or similarly alter the delivery or display" content. That means ANY news site; hell, any content site. 2/
malinowski.house.gov/sites/malinows…
d. I fear any opening of the #230 Pandora's Box and the right-wing will enter with their "cancel culture" "neutrality" agenda, no matter what this legislation says. Danger.
e. Demonizing algorithms is not a solution.
@Malinowski has a town hall on this tomorrow. I'll be there.
f. The groups fomenting violence & insurrection don't need algorithms. They have their networks to promote their messages & organize. Going after the algos then misses and distracts from the real target, the real problems.

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Australia's Murdoch law & the US newspaper anti-antitrust bill (see hearing last week) are examples of the unholy alliance of newspapers & government. Another from India: paying for space to run political propaganda. So much for journalistic independence. That is for sale.
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Another spot-on observation from this paper: "Moral panics in society act as a form of ideological cohesion which draws on a complex language of nostalgia"--i.e., life was better before Facebook, comic books, or books....
From Angela McRobbie & Sarah Thornton, 1995
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The pandemic fundamentally changed booking, for now networks can call on people from most anywhere without the need for studio appearances. This opens up cable news to more voices, viewpoints, and expertise. So congrats, @JesseRodriguez: new opportunities ahead. 1/
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This is also why we started a community of practice around commerce at @towknightcenter: to motivate publishers to learn how to build individual user profiling and to gather first-party data (and, btw, to create another revenue stream). 3/
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