Didi Rankovic
Didi Rankovic is an experienced online journalist, editor, and translator, with a career spanning over ten years writing for major a English-language website in Serbia, and previously working as translator for international organizations and peacekeepers in the Balkans. Rankovic is passionate about free and open source tech and is a head contributor for Reclaim The Net, focusing on lead stories. [email protected]
Shameless Animal Crossing hit-piece highlights modern “journalism” business model of hateclicks for cash
And it pretty much confirms what you’ve likely been suspecting all along – that most modern journalism is pretty much writing controversial rage-bait trash for clicks.
Twitch streamer Invadervie slams “cheapskate” viewers who won’t pay for her content
The entitled streamer may not be worth as much as she thinks she is.
New York Post slams Facebook for “fact-checking” and suppressing its article
The Post Editorial Board is the last news outlet to criticize Facebook’s censorship.
Someone keeps abusing the DMCA to get this headbutt video taken offline
The much-maligned US copyright law’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is simply a terrible gift that keeps on giving. Many “innovative” ways are being found to use and abuse this piece of legislation by those intent on issuing unfounded DMCA notices – but even in the world of bogus DMCA’
The Joe Biden parody website Facebook won’t let you link to
After controversially fact-checking memes on the platform, Facebook is now blocking links to parody sites.
Facebook will send you a warning if you’ve liked any “misinformation” but mainstream media goes unchecked
If Facebook thinks you’ve been consuming misinformation, it’ll send you articles from the WHO to correct your world-view.
Trump campaign manager slams Twitter censorship of TPUSA ambassador @Alx
The censorship is more blatant than ever.
Joe Biden’s campaign doesn’t understand the internet, new avatar tool was a meme template waiting to happen
No campaign that understood the internet would have made this tool.
Facebook fact-checker accused of bias after sourced expert has ties to Wuhan bio lab
Erroneous fact-checking is a growing form of censorship.
Senator Thom Tillis joins pile-on over the internet archive’s National Emergency Library
The National Emergency Library allows people to still read books while public libraries are closed.
Mainstream news is soaring on YouTube thanks to “authoritativeness ranking scores”
YouTube is cementing the dominance of major news networks.
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt: coronavirus should make people grateful for Big Tech
Schmidt thinks people shouldn’t be so harsh on tech giants.