Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The truth is that the media is more afraid of bias than they are of misleading their readers. And while that seems like a slippery slope, and may very well be one, there must be room to inject the writer’s voice back into their work, and a willingness to call out bad actors as such, no matter how rich they are, no matter how big their products are, and no matter how willing they are to bark and scream that things are unfair as they accumulate more power.</p><p>If you're in the tech industry and reading this and saying that "the media is too critical" of tech, you are flat fucking wrong. Everything we're seeing happening right now is a direct result of a society that let technology and the ultra-rich run rampant, free of both the governmental guardrails that might have stopped them and the media ecosystem that might have held them accountable.</p><p>Our default position in interrogating the intentions and actions of the tech industry has become that they will "work it out" as they continually redefine "work it out" as "make their products worse but more profitable." Covering Meta, Twitter, Google, OpenAI and other huge tech companies as if the products they make are remarkable and perfect is disrespectful to readers and a disgusting abdication of responsibility, as their products are, even when they're functional, significantly worse, more annoying, more frustrating and more convoluted than ever, and that's before you get to the ones like Facebook and Instagram that are outright broken."</p><p><a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-fu</span><span class="invisible">ture/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/TechJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechJournalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a></p>