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AG’S OFFICE BLOCKS ACCOUNTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SHIELDS BAD ACTORS

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted February 26, 2020 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Now records we have received from Healey’s shed light on why her office may be avoiding the issue—her office is also guilty of the same kind of questionable social media management.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, AG, attorney general, Chick-fil-A, Chicopee, criminal justice, Critical MA, Facebook, FOIA, Healey, LGBTQ, Massachusetts, Police, public information, public records, Shoestring, social media, Twitter, western Mass

COP BLOCK: CHICOPEE POLICE CLAIM JOURNALISM IS AN ATTACK ON THEIR DEPARTMENT

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted January 15, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

While there have indeed been formal requests made for public information and several articles written about CPD misconduct, it is news to us that we are on the “attack.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Chick-fil-A, Chicopee, criminal justice, Critical MA, Facebook, FOIA, LGBTQ, Police, public information, public records, Shoestring, social media, western Mass

A CHICKEN FOR EVERY COP

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted November 4, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Chick-fil-A

The Western Mass police department that has hosted more than two-dozen events at Chick-fil-A

Filed Under: FEATURES, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Chick-fil-A, Chicopee, criminal justice, Critical MA, Facebook, FOIA, LGBTQ, Police, public information, public records, Shoestring, social media, western Mass

SPECIAL FEATURE: CRIPPLED EPISTEMOLOGY

Written by JONATHAN RILEY Posted August 9, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Boston researchers have spent years helping government agencies plan and simulate operations to troll potential terrorists. Despite controversial practices and lackluster results, the covert operations continue.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Boston, Boston Police Department, BPD, BRIC, Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, conspiracy, conspiracy theories, DARPA, DHS, Donald Trump, Facebook, Glenn Greenwald, Guardian, ISIS, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Lone Wolf, MKULTRA, NSA, Persona, Pokemon, Robert Popp, Russian trolls, Sunstein, terrorism, US Army Special Operations Command, Usaamah Rahim, World War II

SOME CLOSURE FOLLOWING THAT HELLSTORM WE UNLEASHED ON SOCIAL MEDIA LAST WEEK

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted May 16, 2018 Filed Under: Dear Reader, Media Farm

Those who choose to stay informed should understand how in addition to financial strains and the resulting brain drains broken budgets have led to across our industry, journalistic entities are also often at the mercy of technocrats and new media gurus.

Filed Under: Dear Reader, Media Farm Tagged With: articles, Facebook, media, Medium, shares, social media, Twitter

EDITORIAL: MEDIUM WELL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 16, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

Facebook middle finger

 

Democracy requires public control of social media giants

 

In this edition of DigBoston, our Editor-in-Chief Chris Faraone has already written ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: billionaire, corporation, criticism, Democracy, DigBoston, editorial, Ev Williams, Facebook, Jason Pramas, Medium, public, social media, utility

SHARING IS CARING (AND MOST OF YOU SOCIAL MEDIA RATS DO NEITHER)

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted April 8, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

Why do so many folks shy away from sharing articles about controversial topics, or at least ones that have yet to be reduced and cheapened to a meme or blog post farted out by some venture-backed national news aggregator?

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: articles, Facebook, media, shares, social media, Twitter

UPDATE: DIGBOSTON DISPATCH

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 4, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Update

Still from NOTES AFTER LONG SILENCE (1989) by Saul Levine

 

News from behind the editorial curtain plus support for Saul Levine

 

Seeking next group of working-class journalists

In November, I put out the word that DigBoston was looking for working-class Boston natives to write for us.

 

Specifically, I called for locals with three of the four qualities we look for in good journalists: ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Update Tagged With: Boston, Facebook, feedback, Flipboard, Jason Pramas, Journalism, justice, massart, Saul Levine, social media, update, working class

EDITORIAL: STRATEGIC RETREAT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 21, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image by freeGraphicToday. CC0.

 

DigBoston to move away from Facebook, help build democratic social media alternatives

 

A decade back it seemed only natural for news publications like DigBoston to stake out turf on Facebook. After all, it provided an easy way for us to reach our audience ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: alternative, Cambridge Analytica, Chris Faraone, Democracy, democratic, DigBoston, editorial, Facebook, IndieWeb, Jason Pramas, Mastodon, social media, social network, surveillance capitalism

MY FACEBOOK FEED IS A MUCH DIRTIER DUMPSTER THAN IT WAS JUST TWO WEEKS AGO

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted February 1, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

I was hardly alone in complaining. Countless critics from the journalism space have spoken out about the devastating impact this abusive relationship has had on both newsmakers and readers, particularly since Facebook spent a lot of time last year explaining how it hoped to help the public cut through bullshit and fake news.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: advertising, algorithm, Facebook, independent journalism, indie media, Journalism, media, sharing, social media

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