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Thursday, November 9, 2017
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Instagram is also a huge source of Russian propaganda on social media (Pinterest’s not safe either)Plus: Google’s new but fairly useless “knowledge panels,” bots spreading misinformation in local races, and: When is misinformation most dangerous? By Laura Hazard Owen. |
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A regular New York Times kids’ section and a kids’ version of The Daily are on the way this monthA flurry of emails from kids (and a Change.org petition) helped convince the Times brass to bring once-experimental section back on a more permanent basis. By Ricardo Bilton. |
What We’re Reading
Sports Illustrated / Richard Deitsch
ESPN is expected to layoff more than 100 staffers →
“The SportsCenter franchise is expected to be hit hard — including on-air people — given the frequency of the show has lessened considerably on main network ESPN.”
Vanity Fair / Peter Hamby
How Trump brought the political media class to its knees →
“Trump and his team understand that for the political press, the only thing that matters is what's happening right now, not yesterday. And whether through his tweets or his surrogates in the briefing room, the president has been largely able to bait reporters into playing his game, because he knows what makes them tick.”
AP News / Ryan Nakashima and Barbara Ortutay
How Russia Twitter trolls deflected Trump bad news →
“AP's analysis illuminates the obvious strategy behind the Russian cyber meddling: swiftly react, distort and distract attention from any negative Trump news.”
ProPublica / Julia Angwin
Cheap tricks: The low cost of Internet harassment →
“How haters attacked three ProPublica reporters with email bombs and Twitter bots and covered their tracks.”
Gizmodo / Matt Novak
Twitter halts all verifications after verifying Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally organizer →
“Twitter can insist all day long that verification isn't an endorsement of a particular user's views. But that's clearly not the case. It hands out and rescinds verification based on rules that it won't share with the Twitter community. And people are getting sick and tired of it.”
Digiday / Lucinda Southern
The slow growth of news subscriptions in the UK, in 4 charts →
“Growth has been slow, partly because not many mainstream news organizations are charging for their content yet.”
Freedom of the Press Foundation / Parker Higgins
The Freedom of the Press Foundation is working to save Gothamist and DNAinfo archives →
“With a few alterations, many journalists can use this tool to create an archived version of their entire portfolio.”
Digiday / Sahil Patel
Business video network Cheddar is launching a general news offshoot →
The new channel, which will be called Cheddar Big News, will be modeled after CNN's Headline News in that it will focus on the biggest news stories of the day but done in the ‘style and sentiment of local news,’ said Cheddar CEO Jon Steinberg.
BuzzFeed / Jane Lytvynenko
InfoWars has republished more than 1,000 articles from RT without permission →
RT is not the only outlet InfoWars copied content from…there are articles copied from CNN, Sputnik, Breitbart, CNS News, the Blaze, CBC, BBC, Vice, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Post, LA Times, BuzzFeed, and others. RT's articles, however, seem to be the most numerous.
The New York Times / Kevin Roose
YouTube’s rapid response partisans game the news of tragedy →
“His hit productions have included fact-challenged videos like ‘Barack and Michelle Obama Both Come Out The Closet,’ which garnered 1.6 million views, and ‘Hillary Clinton Is On Crack Cocaine,’ which had 665,000. He was admitted to YouTube's partner program, which allows popular posters to earn money by displaying ads on certain types of videos, and claims to have made as much as $10,000 a month from his channel.”