CatherineBaab on how Meta downloaded tens of gigabytes of pirated books from LibGen, a well-known “shadow library” that hosts roughly eight million titles, and used the files to help train LLaMA 3, the company’s most advanced language model www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day, where UNESCO is honouring all those who risk their safety to defend the public's right to know. And a day to remind us of the fact that the latest count of jailed journalists by the Committee to Protect Journalists is 361 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
En kæmpe glæde at kunne dele, at Mette Hundebøl Nielsen bliver ny direktør for JP/Politikens Erhvervsmedier og dermed også CEO for Watch Medier. Mette kommer fra en stilling som CFO og CIO på Børsen, hvor hun de seneste seks år har været en del af direktionen www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
To quote Jonathan Kanter, the former head of the DoJ’s antitrust unit: “Today is a huge victory for antitrust enforcement, the media industry, and the free and open internet . . . Google is now an illegal monopolist twice over.” www.ft.com/content/3456...
Ett nytt brev från Joakim.
Message from Swedish journalist Joakim Medin currently imprisoned in Turkey.
I en tid, hvor vi ryster på hovedet over, at Det Hvide Hus forviser journalister med løs hånd, er det ikke rart at læse, at Folketingets Præsidium giver Mads Brügger karantæne på grund af “manglende situationsforståelse og manglende konduite.” frihedsbrevet.dk/fri-mads-143...
Tjekkiet har kastet sig ind i kampen for at redde Radio Free Europe efter, at Trump-administrationen har skåret finansieringen. Den tjekkiske regering appellerer til andre europæiske lande om at deltage i redningsaktionen. Man må håbe, at de lytter ... www.ft.com/content/10a3...
Søndag 23. marts er Nordens dag. Det er dagen, hvor vi markerer den "nordiske grundlov", Helsingforsaftalen, som blev underskrevet 23. marts 1962. Der har sjældent - om nogensinde - været en stærkere anledning til at markere det nordiske samarbejde end nu ... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
"One of the hardest countries to place philosophically." FT's Janan Ganesh on Denmark's secret sauce: its pragmatic ability to think on an issue-by-issue basis www.ft.com/content/9bc7...
FT's Weekend Essay by Princeton University historian Fara Dabhoiwala might be the most well reflected and nuanced text on the many dilemmas of free speech, I've read. Highly recommended! www.ft.com/content/d1f1...
Worthwhile: John Oliver on Facebook & Content Moderation #lilbroccoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf7X...
“You can picture Vladimir Putin watching in Kremlin, the Russian president rubbing his hands in glee”
Biggest jump up in Americans' views on the direction the US is headed in since the start of Biden's term, per YouGov. Yet another sign that a lot of Americans are into this administration (so far)...
"En hovsaløsning" som "leder tankerne på Victor Orbán i Ungarn". Ifølge tidligere ambassadør Claus von Barnekow er forslaget om en medieombudsmand udtryk for mangel på "relevant og kvalificeret juridisk viden og indsigt" i Medieansvarsudvalget www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
“I have always been grateful for how he stood up for The Post and an independent press against Trump’s constant threats to his business interests. Now I couldn’t be more sad and disgusted.”
Former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron
www.thedailybeast.com/ex-wapo-edit...
Fuld fart på den store nordiske mediekonsolidering www.dagensmedia.se/tidningar-oc...
En trist anledning. Men et stærkt signal fra et flot fremmøde på en bevægende aften foran den russiske ambassade i København 🇺🇦🇩🇰
Today, my thoughts go out to the Ukrainian people, who must bear the brunt of this insane attack on the free world. On this sad day, we should also honor the tireless efforts of the Ukrainian media to inform the public under the most difficult conditions imaginable www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
America has turned on its triends Trump's abandonment of his country's allies is real and will endure Winston Churchill is credited with saying that America does the right thing after exhausting the alternatives. Donald Trump has turned that aphorism on its head. In the past 10 days, he has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. Those who thought America was a friend or ally, notably Ukraine and Nato, are dropping once safe assumptions to cope with a world in which America is an unabashed predator. Countries that were treated by Washington as adversaries, notably Vladimir Putin's Russia, are suddenly America's friend. There were hinge moments in history when the US displayed its character as global leader, such as Dwight Eisen-hower's repudiation of Anglo-French imperialism in the 1956 Suez crisis, or Ronald Reagan's 1987 exhortation to the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall. They defined the world's idea of America. Trump's assertion this week that Ukraine "should have never started" the war is the dark version of those. His account of Russia being provoked to invade Ukraine came straight from Putin's talking points. So too was JD Vance's Valentine's Day speech in Munich in which the US vice-president identified liberal democracy as Europe's real threat from within. These moments will live in infamy. What do they tell us about what is com-ing? First, there should be no doubt that Trump's contempt for allies and admiration for strongmen is real and will endure. During his first term, Trump's instincts were curbed by the more traditional Republicans around him. Trump 2.0 is the real article. It is entirely possible that figures like Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, or Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, still believe in the US-led alliance that each once championed. Their private thoughts are irrelevant. Each displayed fealty to Trump's predatory vision of America at talks with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia this week. Uk…
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times.
“In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
Today, Julija Navalnaja
was awarded Politiken’s Freedom Prize for her relentless fight for freedom, democracy and human rights politiken.dk/internationa...
Hvor er DR’s generaldirektør, Maria Rørbye Rønn og bestyrelsesformand Lars Gert Lose? Hvordan ser de på forløbet bag DR-dokumentaren ’Grønlands hvide guld’? Og hvornår tager de ansvar? www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Breaking: For the second day in a row, the AP reporter on pool duty who tried to attend a POTUS event was blocked from entering the Oval Office. The reporter was there to cover the swearing-in ceremony for Tulsi Gabbard.
Nyhedsdirektør på TV 2, Ulla Pors, tilslutter sig "fuldstændig de kritiske røster, der peger på de helt afgørende demokratiske problemer ved en offentlig finansieret medieombudsmand, der kan lægge sager an mod medierne”:
journalisten.dk/nyhedsoverbl...
Det viser sig nu, at flertallet af medierepræsentanter i Medieansvarsudvalget IKKE bakker op om, at en medieombudsmand skal kunne føre retssager mod medierne. Det sagde udvalgets formand, Søren Pind, ellers da udvalgets rapport blev præsenteret i sidste uge journalisten.dk/soeren-pinds...
Vi har netop - med meget god grund - takket alle medarbejdere i JP/Politikens Hus for en kæmpe indsats i 2024 og for deres dedikationen til hver eneste dag at bidrage til at skabe oplyste borgere www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Professor Sten Schaumburg-Müller: »Det duer ikke, at en ombudsmand både skal være anklager og dommer, og vi har ikke brug for en yderligere indskrænkning af pressefriheden. Det her er et farligt signal, der lyder som noget, de vil hilse velkommen i autoritære stater«. politiken.dk/kultur/medie...
"En regulering af pressefriheden, som i europæisk perspektiv er ekstremt vidtgående," skriver Berlingske i en leder om forslaget om statslig medieombudsmand med ret til at rejse og føre sager mod medierne www.berlingske.dk/ledere/berli...
”Det er åbenlyst, at en sådan medieombudsmand vil være problematisk, fordi det truer mediernes uafhængighed.” Sådan lyder reaktionen generalsekretær i Norsk Redaktørforening, Reidun Kjelling Nybø på Pind-udvalgets forslag om etablering af en statslig medieombudsmand www.m24.no/danmark-medi...
