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Thursday, June 15, 2017

State of Turkish #journalism: While Cumhuriyet Web Editor released, a former journalist and opposition MP sentenced that triggers Gündem ayarlarını değiştir #AdaletYürüyüşü

Cumhuriyet Web Editor Oğuz Güven released from jail

The online chief of daily Cumhuriyet, Oğuz Güven, was released from jail on June 14, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

Main opposition CHP makes call to take to streets to protest MP Berberoğlu’s arrest

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) made a call on June 14 to take to the streets in Ankara on June 15 to protest the arrest of party deputy Enis Berberoğlu

Turkish opposition politician jailed for 25 years on spying charges

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Reuters in Ankara

Enis Berberoğlu is first CHP lawmaker imprisoned since lifting of immunity last year, in move condemned as ‘intimidation’

Fake News Is Unbelievably Cheap to Produce

MIT Technology Review

For $55,000 you could discredit a journalist; for $200,000 you might instigate a street protest.

Mirror Websites Are Helping Turkish Users Reconnect to Wikipedia

Global Voices Online by Arzu Geybullayeva

The English-language Wikipedia page on January 18, 2012, illustrating its international blackout in opposition to SOPA and PIPA copyright legislation in the US. Created by Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Journalism After Snowden: essays about a free press in a surveillance state

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

Journalism After Snowden: The Future of the Free Press in the Surveillance Stateis a new essay collection from Columbia Journalism Review Books with contributions from Ed Snowden, Alan Rusbridger (former editor-in-chief of The Guardian); Jill Abramson (former New York Times executive editor; Glenn Greenwald, Steve Coll (Dean of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism), Clay Shirky, Cass Sunstein, and Julia Angwin

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Thursday, January 5, 2017

#Cyberculture – Strange times: “Donald Trump backs Julian Assange over Russia hacking claim

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Donald Trump backs Julian Assange over Russia hacking claim

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

President-elect Donald Trump backs Wikileaks founder over alleged Russian meddling in the US election.

The Future Of Encryption

Digital Tonto by Greg Satell

The new era of quantum encryption is coming sooner than you think. If you want to protect your business, the time to start is now. Related posts: Can Encryption Keep Our Information Safe? The…

Feminist cybersecurity 101

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

The DIY Feminist Guide to Cybersecurity, available in Spanish and English, is designed to be a quickstart for “gendered, racialized, queerphobic, transphobic, ableist, and classist” threats to digital autonomy, created because “companies and developers frequently ignore or underestimate the digital threats to these spaces and their users.”

Algorithms: the villains and heroes of the ‘post-truth’ era

open Democracy News Analysis – by David Beer

We often focus on the negative or positive impacts of algorithms. But is this a distraction from how power is actually deployed through them?

‘Fake news’ sites. Raphael Satter/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Over the last few months, discussion of ‘post-truth’ has been everywhere. Questions about the status of truth and fact in political debate have acquired a pre-eminence in commentaries on the complex political developments of 2016. These stories vary, but they share an understandable concern with the consequences of a misinformed electorate. Which, of course, are far-reaching.