#100hardtruths Main Menu Pledges and lists written over the first 100 days A path through the primer focusing on the several pledges and lists of hardtruths I wrote during the first 100 days of the Trump administration 24 #100hardtruths authored by invited contributors A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths written by scholars, artists, activists, and friends Art Answers to Phony Questions A path through the primer focusing on speaking hardtruths about and through poetic, abstract, formally reflexive, non-indexical Art Forms Virality is Virility A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that connect a macho growing of digital stature to real world violence Fake News R Us A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that reveal our complicity Some #100hardtruths on Digital Media Literacy A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about reading, writing, participating and understanding Digital Media Literacy Some #100hardtruths on Racism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about ethnicity, nationality, zenophobia, immigration and racism Some #100hardtruths on Sexism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about gender, sexuality, sexism, and misogyny Some #100hardtruths on Images A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about photography, visibiity, and the power of images Some #100hardtruths on the Law A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about legislation, (il)legality, public institutions, and the power of the Law Some #100hardtruths on Advertising A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about corporate greed, getting eyeballs to content, the monetization of the Internet and Ads Some #100hardtruths of the Internet A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that attempt to reveal the structure, logic, uses and power of the Internet Some #100hardtruths on and through Film and Video A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about or spoken through film and video 35 #100hardtruths highlighting the work of others A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths produced by journalists, scholars, artists, activists found online Credits About the makers of this Scalar book. Old home page that links to Wordpress Some #100hardtruths in poetry Poems that were produced as a result of radical digital media literacy workshops Some hardtruth poem responses and readings

Some #100hardtruths on Freedom of Expression

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A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about journalism, freedom of speech, and the limits and power of Expression.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said restricting access to social media would mean “being cut off from a very large part of the marketplace of ideas. And the First Amendment includes not only the right to speak, but the right to receive information” (according to the National Law Journal). (from #100hardtruth #24: the 1st Amendment includes the right to receive information)
 

Contents of this path:

  1. #24: the 1st Amendment includes the right to receive information
  2. #12: we need things to help us get closer to the truth
  3. #14: skepticism is a weapon and a quality
  4. #17: Barak Obama says “we won’t know what to protect”
  5. #21: focus on trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience
  6. #26: algorithmic literacy, transparency and oversight needed
  7. #29: interrupt the narrative
  8. #41, visualize hoaxes
  9. #42: phatic communication eases interactions but lessens information
  10. #57, most Americans may conclude he’s a fake president
  11. #60, spot a #fakenews site in 10 steps
  12. #66, make sure to fact-check the trump archive
  13. #67, watch those who are monetizing their watching from the shadows
  14. #79, attend to the structural problems inherent in the platform ecosystem