Test Review Exam 2
Criticisms underlying strategy.
Globalized media out of United States and Europe
Use his media properties to endorse them. Rupert Murdoch(News Corp)
Their relationship was transactional with Trump helping Rupert’s businesses.
Films, television, software, AI
Partial control over Tiktok it is Larry Ellison
Is the corporate ownership structure always problematic for journalism?
What is the alternative?
Non profits
Struggling for money
How are the big tech moguls similar to autocrats?
work in automobile industries
what pretty bad things have the big tech platforms been used for?
content that has spread propaganda
Damage to teenagers mental health
writing conspiracy theories/ false information
How have the big tech platforms damaged journalism news outlets?
No more newspaper companies
Taken away newspaper outlets
What was the Break Glass experiment
Facebook changed its algorithm to demote non reliable sources
Separating news from opinion, issuing corrections
They want to promote the loudest voices, emotional voices even when they are wrong.
What has Europe done about big tech?
fining them
fake news or false information
made it illegal for tech companies to use data
let people opt of out certain algorithms
No advertising to children
Australia wanted to help their own news companies
They told Google and Meta to pay them for newer news sources
Facebook started paying for news
Canada did not work out well
Good was paying a lot to the media for Canadiens.
Why doesn’t the US regulate?
Communications decency act gives a free pass to big tech platforms
Lible someone, person who posted something on their site they cannot get in trouble for.
Who was Li wenliang and what did China do to him?
He was a doctor that noticed the virus. messaged people about the rumor of Covid potentially, then he got arrested in China. He tried to warn people about the pandemic before it came to happen.
1. The desire of free speech is what he wanted
What did he say before he died?
A healthy society should not just have one voice.
What was the People wanted to talk about him and why he was punished
Messages were disappearing, they did not want to talk about him
China censored a lot of chatter about Li Wenliang.
you should know some of the euphemisms used to discuss him- and to discuss other issues in China ( in 2015)
Chinese censorship of the doctor. they did not want any information leaked
Code words, death by hide and seek. Dying in custody
4 of them should know them
Check the water meter- police are coming
Why did Chinese citizens post picture of Winnie the Pooh?
It is because the fat references they were mean
They can’t buy things and lose social media rights in China.
Who was Peng Shuai? Professional womens tennis player
She accused a member of chinese government sexual harrasement
Sparked people asking questions about her.
They removed digital references of Peng Shuai.
removed digital forms where people were trying to talk about her.
China resorted to accusing anti china and anti asian. Strategy was different.
They censored entertainment media in China?
Editing the media to take away strong violence, sexual content, and LGBTQ
nothing that shows worship of money or celebrity worship.
They did not like the trend of young male performers. Jewelry makeup and dressing in other ways.
China started telling media companies to not have them on the air anymore. They were gone
What is China’s Social Credit System?
red list means you follow the rules
if not there are punishments
Who is Frank Langfitt?
journalism for NPR national public radio.
For the location tracking he put his phone in a chip bag to make the GPS ping go away
Dopplegangers are the same thing just different
The end goal of this is to make people believe in nothing
Election happens people will not believe they won.
Europe was a target of Russian disinformation by
What are the three specific goals
Weaken western unity
Economic sanctions started in 2014
Revive Russia as a global power
what did Russia have to do with Brexit?
Britian exited the union, and Russia liked that. European union is a strong adversary
Uk countries did not like Russia they wanted them to split up.