FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation.
“What we’re seeing is this criminalized language around acts that are simple acts of solidarity…. Those smaller acts of solidarity every day are so important.”
Facial recognition, a technology that has been proven wrong, has been deemed harmful, in principle and in practice, for years now.
Corporate anti-competitive power and Cold War fears lead the government to contemplate censoring media now available to 80 million Americans.
Despite lack of proof of either explanation, media lent far more credence to the US’s official narrative than to that of China.
A New York Times op-ed demonizes freedom from corporate and government surveillance as a dangerous plot by unnamed “technologists.”
“CounterSpin is thankful to all of the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show…. This is just a small selection.”
“News networks should be helping us sort fact from fiction, not further destroying the line.”
“We have to take the victories that are there. And we have to at least try to inform people about what’s going on.”
Western journalists evidently saw no need to factcheck claims of Chinese cyberespionage at the Beijing Olympics.
“The press has an enormous role in partnering with transparency advocates to basically say, give me what you’ve got.”
Drugs are developed by the government, and then pharmaceutical companies get patents on them and sell them back to the public.
A retrospective look at FAIR’s coverage of two decades of media self-censorship, scapegoating and stenography.
“We all rely on journalists’ ability to find out what’s going on, especially in ways that governments don’t like, to be an informed populace.”
Media have misinformed the public about a campaign whose own architects say is about disinforming, confusing and inflaming people.
Corporate media have resorted to guilt by association to turn their readers against digital security.
If it’s part of a news outlet’s job to aid dissenters, through privacy protection or other means, why aren’t NPR, CNN and the like providing cybersecurity and “rapid response funds” for antiracist protesters domestically?
“It’s particularly critical, in a moment where we are protesting police brutality and over-surveillance and the over-militarization of police, to take into account how advanced technologies like face recognition play into historical injustices and over-surveilling of communities of color.”
Trump’s bizarre delusions on Covid-19 aren’t just bats in his attic; they’ve driven a response that is nothing short of disastrous.
“In the last decade alone, they’ve spied on Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Abolish ICE movements, Palestinian solidarity movements, environmental movements. Obviously, that’s only the tip of the iceberg.”
The ability of citizens to speak out against injustice is a living, vital tool; interference in political expression by the state cuts democracy off at the root.
