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Students and faculty are condemning Columbia University’s leadership for allowing attacks on professor Joseph Massad to escalate. (Twitter) Students and faculty at Columbia University in New York City are denouncing the mounting attacks and smears against Joseph Massad, an author and professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at the university. Supporters of Israel have demanded that Columbia fire Massad over an opinion piece he published just over a week ago on The Electronic Intifada. They claim that Massad’s analysis is tantamount to “supporting terrorism” and have circulated a petition calling on the university to fire him. The petition was launched by Maya Platek, a Columbia student and former head content writer for the Israeli army’s “spokesperson’s unit.” That is a propaganda division in the military now waging a genocidal war against the people of Gaza. Platek’s page on LinkedIn says that she managed a Twitter account and a website for the Israeli military from 2018 to 2020. Her petition claims that Massad’s analysis “encourages violence and misinformation in and outside of campus, particularly putting many Jewish and Israeli students on campus at risk.” It is a common trope used by Israel defenders and its lobby to claim that any

X is monetizing an account that posted about the suicide of a 14-year-old transgender boy and suggested his mother was to blame for his death because she’s written about depression and struggling to pay bills. Many have accused the account of making fun of the boy’s death. Ads for major brands are also appearing on the account’s feed and in its comment section. The account, @ValidLs, frequently posts transphobic content. Its schtick essentially consists of posting screenshots of trans people’s posts, which prompts its audience to mock and degrade them. The account’s bio describes the content as, “Posting L’s from the ‘valid’ and ‘stunning & brave’ community, occasionally memes.” On Sunday, ValidLs, which uses the screen name “‘Valid’ people taking L’s,” posted a screenshot of a mother writing about the death of her son. In the post, the mother said that her 14-year-old trans son had taken his life despite having family support. “…e was still targeted and suffered anti-trans hate online,” she wrote. “‘GC’ people, this is the result of your bigotry. I hope you are proud. #protecttranskids.” (“GC” stands for gender critical, a code phrase that transphobic people use to describe their beliefs.) The mother included a photo

The platform X has been issued with a legal infringement notice by Australia's eSafety Commissioner. (AP PHOTO)Social media platform X has been fined more than $600,000 by Australia's eSafety commissioner for what the regulator says are compliance failures in relation to tackling child sexual exploitation.The platform formerly known as Twitter has been issued with a legal infringement notice and has 28 days to respond or pay the $610,500 penalty.Google has also been handed a formal warning for exhibiting a lack of transparency, with both tech giants accused of failing to adequately respond to a number of questions.Issued with new transparency powers, eSafety issued please explain notices to Twitter (subsequently rebranded as "X"), Google, TikTok, Twitch and Discord in February.However the regulator's latest report summarising their answers, highlights serious shortfalls in how some companies detect, remove and prevent child sexual abuse material and grooming.It also examines inconsistencies in how companies deal with material across their different services and variations in the time it takes them to respond to public reports.Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said the non-compliance was disappointing especially as the questions related to the protection of children and the most egregious forms of online harm."Twitter/X has stated publicly that tackling

When nobody mentioned an officiating crew, you can assume that the crew did a pretty decent job. When every fan of one team is upset at an officiating crew, you can assume that things were a bit one-sided.And when everybody watching the NFL on a Sunday is apoplectic over the performance of an officiating crew regardless of partisan status, you can assume that the crew really beefed it all day long.That was the case for referee John Hussey and his crew in Sunday’s game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns. Hussey made calls ranging from comical to outright inexplicable, and here’s the full rundown:The Browns won the game 19-17 to drop the 49ers from the realm of the undefeated, but that was NOT the story here. Needless to say, everybody on social media was quite perturbed at Hussey, and nobody was holding back.Referee John Hussey was calling upstairs after the teams were separated. No announcements and now warmups have proceeded as usual. https://t.co/ql6iwU1ulQ— Zac Jackson (@AkronJackson) October 15, 2023This is an indictment on John Hussey's officiating crew. Been really poor today, on top of the mistakes on both sides. https://t.co/QBXbjVVd1s— Rohan Chakravarthi (@RohanChakrav) October 15, 2023John Hussey

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LAWRENCE, Kan. – The No. 16 Kansas volleyball team swept the Oklahoma Sooners (25-20, 25-21, 25-18) on a Saturday afternoon outing in the Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena. With the victory, the Jayhawks improve to 13-4 on the year and 4-3 in conference play so far. Oklahoma falls to 6-10 and 0-7 in Big 12 matches. "We were extremely efficient, offensively, and very organized defensively. Camryn created great balance in our offense and our serve and pass game was solid. It’s rewarding to see the work this group is putting in because they’re getting better each time they compete." Head Coach Ray Bechard Oklahoma would open the match with back-to-back points on the Jayhawks, and were able to keep a narrow lead up through 6-7. A block by Toyosi Onabanjo would tie things up at seven’s, and after two more ties, the Jayhawks were able to flip the script. A kill from Reagan Cooper would make it 10-9, and Camryn Turner would go on a five-point serving run that put KU in a great spot. From there, it was smooth sailing, keeping the Sooners at a distance for the duration of the set. Ayah Elnady started to heat up in the

Tony Khan has been unhinged on Twitter.Credit: AEW First, Tony Khan lost the Tuesday Night War, now he’s losing his mind on Twitter. Tony Khan being unhinged on Twitter is nothing new, but now dealing with a one-sided loss to WWE NXT this past Tuesday, Khan’s latest Twitter meltdown might be his biggest yet. WWE NXT XT destroyed AEW Dynamite in the latest head-to-head ratings war. In NXT’s biggest victory over AEW yet, a loaded WWE NXT garnered 921,000 views against AEW’s 609,000. With AEW bleeding attendance and viewership in recent weeks, WWE smelled blood in the water. Suddenly in panic mode, so did Tony Khan. Tony Khan has been very active on Twitter all week, and his social media posts have become more embarrassing by the tweet. Khan summoned GIFs from Curb Your Enthusiasm to refer to WWE as “d—ks,” while using a meme to call Triple H and Shawn Michaels “bald a—holes.” Khan took repeated shots at Vince McMahon for his sexual misconduct allegations, and insisted that Shawn Michaels was not going to win this year’s Booker of the Year award—a meaningless paper trophy that is given away by anybody with a wrestling podcast these days. Tony’s increasingly

SF Supervisor Dean Preston says he's deleting his Twitter/X account, two weeks after the company's owner, Elon Musk, tweeted that Preston should "go to prison," becoming the latest in a string of city supervisors to leave the platform.Citing a rise in harassment, anti-semitism, and misinformation since Musk made the late-September threat against him — along with Musk's possibly empty threat to donate $100,000 to an effort to oust him — Preston says he's leaving Twitter for good."It’s a reality check that it’s not a safe or productive place to share my thoughts," Preston tells the Chronicle. "Twitter has been overwhelmed by trolls and disinformation since Musk took over. With the owner of the site calling for me to be jailed, it became clearer it was time to move to a new platform."It's not clear why it took two weeks for Preston to come to this decision — after he put out a press release on September 29 calling Musk a "billionaire fascist" and "increasingly unhinged."This week, Preston came under fire from local Jewish leaders for putting out a statement that seemed to show sympathy for Hamas following its deadly attacks in Israel last weekend, and failed to outright denounce the

Published October 12, 2023 at 4:17 PM CDT On today's show...We go beyond the walls of a hospital or clinic to get a look at the health needs of a community. Natasha Smith, head of diversity, equity and inclusion at Sanford Health, discusses the goals of the Community Health Needs Assessment.Deep beneath the Black Hills, a years-long experiment is looking at how microbes below ground differ from their contemporaries on the surface.Magdalena Osburn, Ph.D., takes us into the Deep Mine Microbial Observatory (DeMMO) at the Sanford Underground Research Facility.We explore free speech on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. PBS FRONTLINE's "Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover" is now streaming. We catch up with the film's director and producer James Jacoby.We take a moment to join the safety meeting before 2023's Buffalo Roundup.Plus, "bird nerd" Kevin Woster introduces us to a creature who looks a lot better in the air than up close. Cara Hetland is the Director of Radio and Journalism Content for South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Ellen Koester is a producer of In the Moment, SDPB's daily news and culture broadcast. Ari Jungemann is a producer of In the Moment, SDPB's daily news and culture broadcast.

The EU's digital rights chief Thierry Breton gave X, formerly Twitter, 24 hours to outline how the platform would meet the bloc's new digital rules. Elon Musk's social media platform X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts and taken down or labeled thousands of pieces of content since the militant group's attack on Israel, according to the CEO of the company formerly known as Twitter.Linda Yaccarino on Thursday outlined efforts by X to get a handle on illegal content flourishing on the platform. She was responding to a demand from a top European Union official this week for information on how X is complying with the EU's tough new digital rules during the Israel-Hamas war."X is proportionately and effectively assessing and addressing identified fake and manipulated content during this constantly evolving and shifting crisis," Yaccarino said in a letter to European Commissioner Thierry Breton, the 27-nation bloc's digital rights enforcer.Since the war erupted, photos and videos have flooded social media of the carnage, including haunting footage of Hamas fighters taking terrified Israelis hostage, alongside posts from users pushing false claims and misrepresenting videos from other events.Changes Musk has made to the platform since he bought it last year mean accounts that