A Tool for Racial Equality or Cancel Culture?
Should Yelp be in the business of branding businesses as racist?
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Stopping the Spread of Anti-Vax Memes
Should platforms censor anti-vaccination memes to help end the pandemic?
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Newsroom Objectivity in the Age of Black Lives Matter
What does objective reporting mean in covering the Black Lives Matter protests?
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Quelling Interference or Dissent?
Did Tumblr's purge of Russian misinformation accounts go too far?
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Celebrity Death in the Media
How should you cover a deceased celebrity who was both loved and hated?
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Sex, Drugs, and Hijabs on Netflix
Is Netflix's "Elite" a case of creative filmmaking or Muslim stereotyping?
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Freedom Of Skepticism and the President
How skeptical should leaders be of experts during a pandemic?
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Gaming Platforms and Shocking Speech
What could go wrong with Twitch's efforts to police speech on its platform?
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Picturing Justice for Kalief Browder
What ethical concerns arise when Jay-Z attempts to document injustices in the American justice system?
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Doxing in the Name of Public Health
What ethical concerns accompany the use of internet shaming in the age of COVID-19?
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Fighting (Online) Fire with Fire?
What are the ethics of using counterspeech to fight online harassment?
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Written In Only to Be Excluded?
What does the treatment of diversity in Game of Thrones teach us about the ethics of film?
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Are there Bigger Fish to Fry in the Struggle for Animal Rights?
Is PETA right that our anti-animal sayings do more harm than good?
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Images of Death in the Media
What ethical challenges arise when the media uses images of the dead?
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Misinformation, Social Media, and the Price of Political Persuasion
What are the ethical implications of banning paid political ads from Twitter?
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The Different Species of the Online Catfish
What ethical complexities circle around catfishing and online deception?
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To Release or Not to Release
What are the ethics of films that portray political assassinations in India?
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