Hypocrisy in headlines: How newspapers covered Trump’s call to end racism

Hypocrisy in headlines: How newspapers covered Trump’s call to end racism

ByJosh Bernoff

In the wake of the shooting in Texas, Donald Trump has asked the nation to come together to condemn white supremacy and racism. Given his own past statements stirring up racial animosity, how are news media supposed to write about that? For context, he’s been telling women of color in Congress to “go back where…

Cloudflare deplatforms 8chan. Have we figured out where to draw the line?
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Cloudflare deplatforms 8chan. Have we figured out where to draw the line?

ByJosh Bernoff

The unmoderated site 8chan has hosted some horrifying things, including a hate-filled manifesto that appears to be from the shooter in the El Paso massacre. After 8chan’s cloud network and security provider Cloudflare dumped it, I began to wonder if we’d finally figured out the boundaries of the legitimate internet. The question of what content…