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Mon, Mar 8th 2021 10:47am — Mike Masnick Remember Michael Pack? Thats the Steve Bannon protégé who Trump appointed last year to head the US Agency for Global Media. USAGM is the organization that oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, Middle East Broadcasting and the Open Technology Fund. It was an open secret that Pack was appointed to turn those widely respected, independent, news organizations into pure Breitbart-style propaganda outfits. He wasted l...

Reddit’s decentralised model offers flexibility, allowing different communities to set their own standards of acceptability, and puts decisions in the hands of people who understand the context and have a stake in the outcome. But it is not without downsides. — AFP via Getty Images/TNS Throughout history, people have established new governments for all sorts of reasons: to solidify alliances, or expand empires, or secure individual liberties. Marc Beaulac had a question about sweaters. Spec...

As social media giants increasingly use their power to censor, Reddit tries another way. But asking users to self-regulate doesn't always work out.

Proposed emergency public health bills COVID-19 Tech Privacy By Jessica Davis February 2, 2021 – A group of Democratic senators and congressmensuggested legislation designed to address the privacy and security issues associated with technologies used for the COVID-19 response, including contact tracking apps, digital monitoring tools, and vaccine appointment scheduling apps. The Public Health Emergency Privacy Act was introduced end of Thursday January 28, by Sens. Mark Warner, D-Virginia a...

Bill addresses concerns over privacy, data security with COVID-19 tracing, monitoring Published Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, 10:12 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com (© Fabian – stock.adobe.com) According to a recent poll, more than half of Americans would not use a contact tracing app and similar tools from Google and Apple over privacy concerns. ...

Is 2021 the next 1848 or 1968, a year of insurrection? It’s still January and we’ve had two seismic stormings of seemingly impregnable ramparts organized by very different sets of disaffected outsiders on social media. After the Capitol and Wall Street, which citadel will be targeted next? Anyone still in possession of their reason was obviously appalled to their very core by the Jan. 6 attack on our democracy. An assault on Wall Street hedge funds that seek to profit from the woes of troub...

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Fri, Oct 16th 2020 12:05pm — Mike Masnick Back in July, we wrote about how Trump had appointed a Steve Bannon mentee, Michael Pack, to head the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), the organization that oversees a bunch of independent media organizations, including the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, and Middle East Broadcasting. The plan was to turn them into a state-sponsored Breitbart. That process has begun, including the recent attempt to investigate Vo...

2021/01/22 12:27 Kelu Chao is the former program director for Voice of America. (Voice of America website photo) Kelu Chao is the former program director for Voice of America. (Voice of America website photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday (Jan. 20) named Kelu Chao (趙克露), a Taiwanese veteran journalist at Voice of America, as acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Following the departu...

English By Jessica Jerreat Share on Facebook WASHINGTON - Moving swiftly on her first day as acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, journalist Kelu Chao oversaw the removal of the top executive at the Voice of America, reversing a widely criticized appointment by her Trump-appointed predecessor, Michael Pack. Robert Reilly, whom Pack appointed as director of Voice of America in December, was removed along with his deputy, Elizabeth Robbin...