“We all we got”: How Black Twitter steered the spotlight to Shanquella Robinson’s death

[Nieman Lab: The Daily Digest] Tuesday, December 6, 2022 [“We all we got”: How Black Twitter steered the spotlight to Shanquella Robinson’s death]( Black social media has often taken the lead in raising public consciousness when mainstream outlets overlook the death or disappearance of Black women. By Candice Norwood and Rebekah Barber, The 19th. What We’re Reading Rest of World / Samriddhi Sakunia [Elections in Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s home state have become a WhatsApp spam war →]( “Currently, in Gujarat, over 10,000 BJP IT Cell volunteers and 50,000 ‘registered digital warriors’ are involved in the creation and circulation of more than 50 new posts each day, targeting over 5 million voters through all social media platforms, including WhatsApp.” Intelligencer / Ben Jacobs [That AI chatbot wrote a pretty decent New York article →]( “‘Mr. De Blasio, you talk about democracy, but what about the way you treated the Central Park carriage horses?’ Trump said, his voice dripping with sarcasm.” BBC News / David Gritten [Al Jazeera has filed case against Israeli forces at the International Criminal Court over the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh →]( “Al Jazeera has highlighted in its submission to the ICC Prosecutor that the new witness evidence and video footage clearly show that Shireen and her colleagues were directly fired at by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF),” a statement by the network said. “The claim by the Israeli authorities that Shireen was killed by mistake in an exchange of fire is completely unfounded.” Platformer / Casey Newton [The promise and the peril of ChatGPT →]( “It’s easy to see the appeal. ChatGPT excels both at serious tasks — fixing broken code, writing syllabi, crafting sensitive emails — and dumb fun. I’ve used it to write a tribute to my favorite gay bar, a Real Housewives-style character tagline for Sonic the Hedgehog, and a theme song for Hard Fork. Not only does the technology do mostly all of this stuff well, it does so instantly.” Columbia Journalism Review / Feven Merid [How Capital B is covering Warnock v. Walker →]( “[Reporter Sydney] Sims described bringing printed copies of one of her stories to her elderly sources because they aren’t in the habit of reading news online. ‘It’s things like that that make us think about how we are being received in a media space that is already distrusted, unreliable a lot of times, and very elite,’ she said.” The New York Times / Anatoly Kurmanaev [Latvia hosted Russian journalists in exile. Then their loyalties were questioned. →]( “As Latvian and Ukrainian authorities accuse the station of supporting Russia’s war effort, TV Rain is now engulfed in the biggest crisis of its turbulent 12-year history.” Columbia Journalism Review / Maria Bustillos [Democracy’s Library, from the Internet Archive, is archiving the world’s government publications →]( “Democracy’s Library, says [Brewster] Kahle, ‘is about taking information straight from governments and making these materials permanently available to anybody. That is new. Or new again. In some sense, it’s old.'” CNN / Oliver Darcy [BuzzFeed will lay off 12% of its staff, citing “worsening macroeconomic conditions” →]( “The cuts, which are expected to impact roughly 180 employees, targeted sales, technology, production, and content teams for both BuzzFeed and Complex, which it acquired last year, a spokesperson told CNN. The spokesperson added that there were no cuts made to its Tasty food brand, BuzzFeed News, or HuffPost.” Washington Post / Andrew Ba Tran, Marisa Iati, and Claire Healy [As fatal police shootings increase, more go unreported →]( “Officers have shot and killed more people every year, reaching a record high in 2021 with 1,047 deaths. The FBI database contains only about one third of the 7,000 fatal police shootings during this time — down from half when [The Washington] Post first started tracking.” Meduza / Natalia Sindeeva [“We made a lot of stupid mistakes”: CEO of independent Russian TV channel Dozhd on the news that Latvia is revoking the network’s license →]( “I don’t know what to tell you. Look, I didn’t sleep all night. It must have been an hour ago that I finally got to sleep. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this for four days.” Washington Post / Leo Sands [Meta threatens to remove U.S. news from its platforms if Congress helps publishers demand payment →]( “The proposal, which lawmakers originally floated as a stand-alone bill and now are reportedly considering as part of a must-pass annual defense bill, would allow news outlets to collectively bargain with tech giants that distribute their content, including Google and Meta, giving them greater leverage to negotiate favorable commercial terms.” [Nieman Lab]( / [Fuego]( [Twitter]( / [Facebook]( [View email in browser]( [Unsubscribe]( You are receiving this daily newsletter because you signed up for for it at www.niemanlab.org. Nieman Journalism Lab Harvard University 1 Francis Ave.Cambridge, MA 02138 [Add us to your address book](