Editorial

News Media Canada has written an editorial condemning the action that Facebook has taken in Australia – that of “stopping news content on their services there”, in response to government attempts to secure a fair deal for news outlets that produce the news Facebook’s platform shares.
 
The AWNA asks members to support NMC’s stance by publishing the editorial, or at least an edited version of it.  We believe it stands up for journalism in our communities, not to mention democracy itself.
 
You can find the editorial here in our Press Release section.
 
Great West Media is publishing the editorial in their newspapers and has added an Editor’s Note that they have shared with us.  You may want to consider using it.
 
“The documentary, The Social Dilemma (Netflix), examines the unintended consequences of social media, from addiction and political manipulation to social and cultural divides never before seen in human history. Former big tech executives, data experts, and engineers discuss what social media is doing to society’s fabric, how their business models are destroying journalism and rocking the very foundations of democracy and humanity.  One of the documentary’s participants, Shoshana Zuboff, is a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”. You can read her column in the New York Times here”:
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