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Members of the Irish parliament have been listening to a very disturbing story. Facebook is a big player in the Irish tech economy but the underbelly of this giant is now being exposed. Within its entrails it is harbouring a monster.
Isabella Plunkett has worked as a Facebook content moderator for just over two years,
She has now told the parliament’s Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, about her nightmare job as a moderator, viewing graphic content up to eight hours a day. The job is so stressful that Facebook has to provide 24/7 counseling support for staff but clearly what they do is totally inadequate. Apparently she is the first moderator to speak on the record to a government hearing anywhere in the world.
The Sunday Times (London) which introduces itself to you with this
cri de coeur, “I’ve found a way to sidestep cancel culture: I’ll tell you everything I’m not thinking instead”, you can’t help feeling you are in some kind of enemy territory.
Especially when it’s someone as outspoken as the larger-than-life British journalist Jeremy Clarkson.
Clarkson’s editors were afraid to print something he had written the previous week because it might offend the safetyniks. They deleted what he had said and substituted it with a new clarksonesque paragraph “expressing an opinion which I don’t have”. So the next week, feeling that letting them do his work for him was selfish, he sat down and “wrote something that I’m not thinking instead”. Which included such gems as this:
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By Mark Hamilton. So What Imprint, Dublin, 2021.
The world before Christ was a savage place. Ancient civilisations were cruel and unforgiving. In this world, despite the benign and wise voices of people like Akhenaten, Zoroaster, Socrates, Cicero and others, Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome placed very little value on human life.
Tom Holland’s
Dominion and Professor Mary Beard’s
S.P.Q.R. – to name but two relatively recent depictions of that world – illustrate the great divide between the values of BC and AD.
But if Rome was not built in a day, neither was Christendom. Peter Heather’s
The Maynard Institute Welcomes The 2021 Maynard 200 Fellows
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44 Media Professionals to Receive Career Advancement Training and Mentorship by Top Experts to Foster Equity and Belonging in Newsrooms and Beyond
The Maynard 200 fellowship will provide cutting-edge training and year-long mentorship from top experts. EMERYVILLE, Calif. (PRWEB) April 13, 2021 The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education [MIJE], a national nonprofit dedicated to making newsrooms look like America and to bring about equity and belonging in media, today announced the 44 fellows selected for Maynard 200, the third cohort of its flagship fellowship.
The diverse group of media professionals was selected from a competitive pool of more than 140 applicants. The fellows represent a mix of mainstream, ethnic, local community and niche media, and their entrepreneurial ventures. The Maynard 200 fellowship will provide cut