CBS News Tuesday June 28, 2022
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, and Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, are two key cosponsors of a bipartisan bill called the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2021. The draft law resembles an approach taken by Australia and some European countries that seeks to give content creators a share of the ad revenue swallowed by large tech companies including Google and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, notes CBS News. Read the full Story >>
Thrillist Tuesday June 28, 2022
Anti-trans legislation and rhetoric is running rampant throughout the US in 2022, notes Thrillist, which spotlights the work of Jesse Freidin, a queer- and trans-identified photographer based in Santa Fe. Freidin’s ongoing “Are You Ok?” portrait series has taken him on what the website calls “an affirmation-fueled road trip through America’s red states, on a mission to uplift and connect.” Says Freidin: “I was at a point in my career where I felt ready to stop doing private commissions…and I was incredibly angry and politically activated.” Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Tuesday June 28, 2022
A series of alarmingly convincing videos of what appears to be Margot Robbie have surfaced online. The deepfakes look so much like the real actress that many users have been fooled into believing it is actually her. While deepfakes have been used for jovial stunts such as last year’s hyper-realistic deepfaked Tom Cruise, more sinister videos of a fake Elon Musk have been used to rob people of their money in cryptocurrency scams, notes PetaPixel. “The threat to civil society is that left unchecked, entire populations could have their views and opinions swayed by deepfake-delivered disinformation campaigns distorting the truth of events,” writes Kevin Townsend at Security Week. Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Tuesday June 28, 2022
The Washington Post features winners of the the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s inaugural photography competition, which explores militarized masculinities and alternatives. The competition is part of a program called “Countering Militarized Masculinities: Mobilizing Men for Feminist Peace.” The top winner is Colombian photographer Carolina Navas Gutiérrez for her project “Nos miran” (“They gaze upon us”), which looks at how young Afro Colombians “confront a reality charged with violence and abandonment." Read the full Story >>
