Fake news and bots may be worrisome, but their political power is . . . Fake news and bots may be worrisome, but their political power is overblown The New York Times Brendan Nyhan Feb 13, 2018 “It’s very hard to change people’s minds, especially when so many are already committed partisans ” —
Jane C. Hu | Nieman Journalism Lab “Whoa!” “I’m crying!” “Worrisome!” “Buckle up!” The swift, complicated rise of Eric Feigl-Ding and his Covid tweet threads The scientist has gained popularity as Covid’s excitable play-by-play announcer But some experts want to pull his plug
February 2018 – Nieman Lab The happy-news-focused, video-dominant, Facebook-dependent publisher LittleThings has some unhappy news After four years spent accumulating more than 12 million followers on Facebook, doing a lot of video programming (including investment in Facebook Live shows), and building a team of 100 employees across the country, LittleThings is shutting down and laying off all its staff The
See how easily AI chatbots can be taught to spew disinformation “To understand how worrisome the threat is, we customized our own chatbots, feeding them millions of publicly available social media posts from Reddit and Parler The posts, which ranged from discussions of racial and gender equity to border policies, allowed the chatbots to develop a variety of
Should we consider fake news another form of (not particularly . . . The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with This weekly roundup offers the highlights of what you might have missed “There aren’t good tools to evaluate the impact of shadow campaigns,” she writes
Journalists are suffering mental health consequences from covering . . . Early results from a new study on mental health among journalists covering the pandemic were so worrisome that the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism decided to publish the preliminary data "This is early data on a vital topic," wrote Meera Selva, the study's co-author and …
30 | November | 2020 | Nieman Journalism Lab “Whoa!” “I’m crying!” “Worrisome!” “Buckle up!” The swift, complicated rise of Eric Feigl-Ding and his Covid tweet threads The scientist has gained popularity as Covid’s excitable play-by-play announcer But some experts want to pull his plug
How Telegram played itself | Nieman Journalism Lab “A worrisome outcome of France’s ultimate prosecution of Telegram, assuming there is one, is that it will embolden countries around the world to prosecute platform CEOs criminally for failing to turn over user data… On the other hand, Telegram really does seem to be actively enabling a