“Musk has transformed one of the world’s most widely used sources of breaking news and information into his plaything to promote bigotry,” said Free Press’ Nora Benavidez.
As the devastating effects of the Israel-Hamas war play out in real time on social media, users are continuing to criticize tech firms for what they say is censorship.
The Media 2070 team brought its Black Future Newsstand exhibit to the AfroTech conference, where people engaged with its powerful vision of Black liberation.
Fifteen years into the cratering of the local commercial-newspaper business, a burgeoning civic-media movement is developing in pursuit of a just society for all.
Free Press Action VP Matt Wood noted that surveillance tools “disproportionately target people of color, recent immigrants, members of religious groups and dissidents.”