The majority of false claims about COVID-19 vaccines on social media trace back to just a handful of influential figures. So why don't the companies just shut them down?
Extraordinary idea that a dozen people can drive this much disinformation but perhaps it also makes them easier to target and limit.
I admired the choice of an AP person to head the Washington Post but this point about why there weren't apparently strong internal candidates, particularly women, is a valid view about the pathways needed.
Siouxsie Wiles wants to talk about all the ‘fake news’ about vaccines that’s floating around and popping into people’s letterboxes. But don’t expect her to debunk it. She explains her thinking.
In a sense she is dealing with the disinformation by writing this but there is a lot in what she says. Some people call media publishing stories about this sort of thing, the trumpet of amplification. I actually gave some of this horrible paper disinformation to a reporter this week so I may be guilty but I want people to be clearly aware that there are bad motives behind it.
The Post made history this week by appointing its first female executive editor. But why did the newspaper have to look outside its own ranks for a woman to lead the newroom? Paul Volpe is senior editor and former executive editor at POLITICO.
The long international nightmare is not over. By now, you will have read that on Wednesday the Facebook Oversight Board (FOB) upheld Facebook’s Jan.
These people do excellent work on analysing this kind of pseudo regulation.
The campaign included planned operations against President Trump’s national security adviser at the time, H.R. McMaster, and F.B.I. employees, according to documents and interviews.
I have had a little experience of the Project Veritas people and they abuse the guise of journalism to pursue their agenda.
AS A YOUNG buck, Muhammad bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, thought he could take on the world. He charged into Yemen, detained Lebanon’s prime minister and had his people chop up a mild-mannered dissident, Jamal Khashoggi, in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
Extraordinary idea of MBS moderating his temper and good that The Economist calls out his murder of Khashoggi. (A reminder also that The Dissident, the remarkable documentary on the murder is very good).
We’ve published a lot of articles at API about innovative things that news organizations are doing — they’re hosting events, they’re launching newsletters, they’re starting new beats, they’re translating more stories, they’re running reader hotlines, they’re campaigning for civility.
Good advice, as so often from the American Press Institute.
In 2007, the New York Times editorial board published a piece headlined “The Right to Organize,” which explicitly endorsed a provision of a congressional bill known as “majority signup.
Seems odd to draw a distinction between journalists and tech people.
On a sunny Sunday in September, a crowd of over a hundred gathered at Malibu Fig Ranch, a biodynamic farm situated just across the Pacific Coast Highway from Point Dume, where the ocean is cerulean and home prices on the coastal bluffs soar into eight figures.
More on the super-spreaders of disinformation.
But non-profits can’t refuse extra funding – like in the public sector, any reduction in budget is a sign of defeat and to be avoided at all costs. Worse still, it can become permanent.
Today's column is written by Jeffrey Turner, director of digital ad operations at The Washington Post. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat are among the highest grossing companies in digital media, earning billions as users scroll through an endless feed of content.
I admit I am not totally convinced about this but I do think the end of third party cookies and similar changes should allow publishers to do more to emphasise to advertisers the "safety" of the locations and audiences.
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Not to talk my own book but you might find some of the links and information I put into this curated piece on the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians, particularly focused on Jerusalem.