How one Mexican magazine adopted inclusive language in Spanish
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022
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How one Mexican magazine adopted inclusive language in Spanish“The use of non-discriminatory language can become a tool to make diversity visible.” By Hanaa' Tameez. |
What We’re Reading
PolitiFact / Grace Abels
How Facebook pages exploit Russia’s war in Ukraine with false videos →
“Facebook pages like Fios Vinks and Fiosl Liesi claim to share coverage of the war in Ukraine but instead spread large amounts of misinformation using clickbait headlines and stolen video. These pages copy content from other platforms, manufacture urgency and invent compelling claims to drive up views.”
The New York Times / Mike Isaac
“Operating with increased intensity”: Zuckerberg leads Facebook toward his metaverse target →
“Some executives — who had to read a 122-page slide deck about the changes — were beginning to sweat at the unusual level of intensity, they said…This month, Meta lowered its engineering hiring targets for the year to 6,000, from 10,000 to 12,000, and said it would leave some open positions vacant.”
Lexington Herald-Leader / Taylor Six
A Kentucky teen’s 5 libel lawsuits against national media outlets have been dismissed →
“Nick Sandmann, who was a 16-year-old student at Covington Catholic in Northern Kentucky at the time of the incident, was the center of videos that went viral which showed Sandmann and Nathan Phillips, a Native American man, standing face to face as Phillips beat a drum and sang a traditional song while Sandmann smiled.”
The Verge / Emma Roth
TikTok will provide “selected” researchers with more transparency on how content moves on the platform →
“The push for more transparency likely comes as a way to offset recent reports that undermine its efforts to prove that it's not a national security threat due to its connection to China, where TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is based.”
Buffalo News / Jon Harris
Sheila Rayam is the first Black journalist to lead The Buffalo News →
“Rayam has been the executive editor of Gannett's Mohawk Valley news operations, including the Utica Observer-Dispatch, since April 2021. Prior to that, she spent three decades rising through the ranks at the [Rochester] Democrat & Chronicle after graduating from SUNY Buffalo State.”
The Guardian / Alex Hern
Facebook considering changing some restrictions on Covid misinformation →
“The social network is considering changing the way it deals with such misinformation by, for example, labelling it as false or demoting it in algorithmic ranking, rather than simply removing it from the site.”
Washington Post / Paul Farhi
DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw makes sure reporters feel the burn →
“Some political observers in Florida think Pushaw's most important contribution to DeSantis's team may be in strengthening his connections to stars of the online right — becoming his ‘right wing whisperer,’ as Politico framed it.”
The New York Times Company
John Keefe joins The New York Times as editor of weather data →
“At The Times, John will lead a team to explore all kinds of weather phenomena — including hurricanes, severe storms, droughts, heat waves and the day-to-day weather that affects our lives — on a variety of platforms.”
Substack / Taylor Lorenz
You don’t want the old Instagram →
“We don’t want to express ourselves the way we did in 2014.”
Axios / Sara Fischer
Vox Media lays off 39 people amid economic uncertainty →
“The cuts are targeted towards certain parts of the company, including some departments within its lifestyle site, Thrillist.” The company has more than 2,000 staffers overall.
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