Two Stories Worth Your Time This Week
This week at Pickup Trucks & Progress, we’ve been looking at two things that have a whole lot more in common than you might think: who controls the information we see, and who gets a fair shot at a good job.
This week at Pickup Trucks & Progress, we’ve been looking at two things that have a whole lot more in common than you might think: who controls the information we see, and who gets a fair shot at a good job.
First up:
Who Owns the Algorithm That Decides Whether You Ever See the Story?
Social media was supposed to give everybody a voice. Trouble is, having a voice doesn’t mean much if an algorithm decides nobody outside your own little choir ever hears it.
Read it here:
https://pickup-trucks-progress.ghost.io/who-owns-the-algorithm-that-decides-whether-you-ever-see-the-story/
Then we take a look at something happening right here in Virginia:
Workers’ Rights & Democracy Hub: Union Apprenticeships, Good Jobs and #WorkBootsBuiltAmerica
There’s plenty of talk about creating good jobs. Union apprenticeship programs actually show young people a road toward one, with training, skills and a trade they can carry with them for the rest of their working lives.
If you enjoy Pickup Trucks & Progress, send one of these stories to somebody who might enjoy it too. That little bit of sharing helps independent rural journalism travel a whole lot farther than any algorithm thinks it ought to.
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John W. Peace II
Pickup Trucks & Progress
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