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Assad has fallen. Now every major news media outlet in the United States and Europe is rebuilding their stringer networks to report on the developments in Damascus. The Protocol was built for these moments. Check us out at www.protocolmedialabs.com
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It's time for web3 to get off it's ass and be the change you want to see. After struggling through the last election and watching the media whiff the biggest stories and most important content, I decided to do something about it. Introducing The Protocol, from Protocol Media Labs. A radically free press for the next hundred years. Join us at www.protocolmedialabs.com
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At this stage of the election season, we can frankly say that U.S. news media is just awful. I haven’t seen a genuine argument or well-researched story on a political topic in the last two months. Meanwhile, media outlets are scrambling to endorse a candidate, and taking a neutral stance seems like it is no longer allowed. At the same time, on social media, we are being bombarded by adversarial information operations aimed at swaying our opinions, influencing voting behavior, and dividing U.S. opinion. Even domestic political organizations are engaged in this kind of behavior, and after the election, we will probably see stories detailing dozens of small operations designed to influence voter behavior immediately prior to the election. We need to come out of this election and rebuild our news media – from the way journalists are incentivized to cover stories, and the tools they use to build them. We need to demand more from the organizations and people who help us make sense of the world.
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The U.S. news media has always been partisan but has gone to different lengths to hide it's partisan nature. Over the last 20 years, we have seen a spike in partisanship in our media, and at the same time an erosion of the professional responsibility of journalists to fairly portray the views of the other side. The fact that people in the Washington Post were "shocked" and uniformly negative about the Washington Post's decision to not take a stand on the current election just goes to show how long the partisan rot has been allowed to build and how deep it goes. This is clearly acceptable behavior, and almost certainly they were hoping for a pro-Harris endorsement. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/25/nx-s1-5165353/washington-post-presidential-endorsement-trump-harris
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This is the sleeper threat to U.S. and Western security. The more the West leverages sanctions to force countries to comply with its foreign policy imperatives, the stronger these counter-efforts will become. The current model essentially proves to other nations that they cannot maintain an independent foreign policy while participating in the post-Bretton Woods global economy. Once the world pivots away from the dollar and the basket of Western currencies, the glue holding countries to a Western/liberal model will erode, with significant ramifications for global stability. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/23/putin-world-economy-bloc-brics-summit
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The reporting on the killing of Yahya Sinwar, particularly at The Washington Post, is excellent; updated minute-by-minute with new facts presented to keep the readership interested. This kind of journalism is extremely resource-intensive, and behind these projects is often a deep bench of dedicated analysts and supporting staff writers with deep contacts in the region/issue. How can some Substack journalist hope to compete? We're thinking about this at Protocol Media Labs...
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It seems like every blockchain and every leader in crypto is seeking new use cases and everyone wants to sign the project that is going to onboard the next trillion dollars. This is for the good; however, the new use case, and the new project that is going to do it, will likely look very different from the previous projects and the current body of crypto use cases. This will be risky, and even scary, for certain blockchains.
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Hi.
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