Betsy Klein, Maegan Vazquez & Kaitlan Collins, CNN: “Biden backs away from his claim that Facebook is ‘killing people’ by allowing Covid misinformation”
Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Cecilia Kang, New York Times: “’They’re killing people’: Biden denounces social media for virus disinformation”
Guy Rosen, Facebook: “Moving past the finger pointing”
Cecilia Kang, New York Times: “Facebook tells Biden: ‘Facebook is not the reason’ vaccination goal was missed”
Kate Conger, New York Times: “Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for posting coronavirus misinformation"
Joseph Choi, The Hill: “Hannity: ‘I believe in the science of vaccination’”
Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post: “The delta variant is ravaging this Missouri city. Many residents are still wary of vaccines.”
Oliver Darcy, CNN: “Fox has quietly implemented its own version of a vaccine passport while its top personalities attack them”
Emily Kuschel & Emily Manley, KOLR: “A University of Missouri lab found delta variant in wastewater nearly a month before the first patient tested positive”
Andrew Sullender, Springfield News-Leader: “COVID spike continues in Southwest Missouri as community leaders push for vaccination”
Galen Bacharier, Springfield News-Leader: “Fauci says Missouri’s COVID-19 fight is predictable – ‘like the sun coming up’ – but can be curbed”
Project Pegasus
Dana Priest, Craig Timberg & Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post: “Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide”
Joanna Slater & NIha Masih, Washington Post: “The spyware is sold to governments to fight terrorism. In India, it was used to hack journalists and others.”
Laurent Richard & Sandrine Rigaud, The Guardian: “Spyware can make your phone your enemy. Journalism is your defence”
Brian Stelter, CNN: “Pegasus Project: Why 17 news outlets are working together to cover spyware on a mass scale”
Alan Suderman, Associated Press: “Microsoft says it blocked spying on rights activists, others”
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review: “The danger on our devices”
Jonathan Rozen, Committee to Protect Journalists: “Botswana police use Israeli Cellebrite tech to search another journalist’s phone”
Oded Yaron & Omer Benjakob, Haaretz: “’Stop using Cellebrite’: Israeli, U.K. police urged to stop using phone-hacking tech”
Illinois station apologizes for coverage
Staff, WCIA: “WCIA 3 addresses viewer feedback”
Richard Prince, Journal-isms: “Heads roll over viewers cry, ‘he’s no angel!’”
Madeleine Hubbard, Breitbart: “Illinois CBS affiliate apologizes for airing photo of alleged cop killer with angel wings”
Kevin Eck, TV Spy: “Illinois station apologizes for coverage of cop killed in line of duty”
Jeff Bonty, Daily Journal: “Family seeks answers after former local resident killed”
Staff, WCIA: “Champaign man dies in shootout with police”
Cuba’s journalism, internet blackouts
Monica R. Richardson, Miami Herald: “I received a racist email after a protest blocked an expressway. Let’s talk about it, Miami”
Lizette Alvarez, Washington Post: “Opinion: There’s no telling whether the Cuban protestors will prevail, but their courage is undeniable”
Leonard Pitts, Jr., Miami Herald: “Too many Americans are willing to trash what Cubans so desperately seek”
Committee to Protect Journalists: “Journalists detained and harassed, internet disrupted amid Cuban protests”
Daniel Trotta, Reuters: “Emboldened by protests, Cuban opposition websites pique government”
Nicolás Rivero, Quartz: “There’s still only one way for authoritarians to control the internet”
Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post: “Cuba’s internet comes back on – and reveals scenes of a crackdown”
Sarah Marsh & Elizabeth Culliford, Reuters: “Faced with rare protests, Cuba curbs social media access, watchdog says”
Bourdain deep-fake
Helen Rosner, New Yorker: “The ethics of a deepfake Anthony Bourdain voice”
Julia Jacobs, New York Times: “Bourdain documentary’s use of A.I. to mimic voice draws questions”
PJ Grisar, The Forward: “The dangerous disrespect of making Anthony Bourdain speak from the dead”
