Morning Jolt: We Have Bigger Problems Than ‘Digital Blackface’

On the menu today: While a CNN contributor wants you to worry about the phenomenon of "digital blackface" — that is, white people sharing images or gifs of members of minority groups on social media — the world still has plenty of real worries, such as Russian dictator Vladimir Putin saying he intends to move some of Russia's tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus. This move would be a direct violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, but hey, Moscow has never let a little thing like a treaty get in the way of obtaining what it wants. The bizarre prioritization of concerns leaves me wondering about what issues the media, and in particular social-media algorithms, want us to pay attention to and worry about. Meanwhile, the federal Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States moves at a pace that glaciers would find insufferably slow, and the Philadelphia Inquirer wonders when one of Pennsylvania's senators will be returning to Capitol Hill.

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY March 27 2023 WITH JIM GERAGHTY March 27 2023 We Have Bigger Problems Than 'Digital Blackface' On the menu today: While a CNN contributor wants you to worry about the phenomenon of "digital blackface" — that is, white people sharing images or gifs of members of minority groups on social media — the world still has plenty of real worries, such as Russian dictator Vladimir Putin saying he intends to move some of Russia's tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus. This move would be a direct violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, but hey, Moscow has never let a little thing like a treaty get in the way of obtaining what it wants. The bizarre prioritization of concerns leaves me wondering about what issues the media, and in particular social-media algorithms, want us to pay attention to and worry about. Meanwhile, the federal Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States moves at a pace that glaciers would find insufferably slow, and the Philadelphia Inquirer wonders when one of Pennsylvania's senators will be returning to Capitol Hill. Fake Worries and Real Worries John Blake at CNN ...   READ MORE

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