Category Archives: New media
Error 404: Visualizing The Internet’s Digital Decay
In 2005, one of the most intriguing advertising stunts of the internet age was hatched. As Visual Capitalist's Nick Routley explains, Alex Tew launched the The Million Dollar Homepage, where anyone could “own a piece of internet history” by purchasing pixels-plots (minimum of 10×10) on a massive digital canvas. At the price of just one dollar […]
Italy Urges Europe To Begin Censoring Free Speech On The Internet
First it was the US, then Germany blamed much of what is wrong in society on “fake news”, and not, say, a series of terrible decisions made by politicians. Now it is Italy’s turn to call for an end to “fake news”, which in itself would not be troubling, however, the way Giovanni Pitruzzella, head […]
ISIS Victim’s Family Sues Twitter, Facebook For Profiting From Terrorism
The family of a woman killed in the 2015 Paris attacks by ISIS claims in a lawsuit that Twitter, Facebook, and Google profit from targeted advertising linked to terrorist propaganda promoting violence. As Bloomberg reports, the case is one of several complaints in U.S. courts alleging that the social media giants have played crucial roles […]
Mike Krieger Rages At The ‘Fake News’ Debacle: “It’s An All Out Media War”
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Before I get into the meat of this article, I want to remind you of a few paragraphs I wrote back in the August post, Questioning Hillary’s Health is Not Conspiracy Theory: As I look at the landscape in 2016 to-date, I observe emergent signs that alternative media is finally beginning […]