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Hot Pod: How can news organizations better prepare the next generation of...
Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue eighty-one, published August 2, 2016. The ideological spread of podcasts. It’s been…an interesting election cycle here in the United...
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Slate’s Chrome extension helps identify fake news on Facebook — and lets...
The politically divided, filter-bubbled United States has fake news fever, and the only prescription is…a cold dose of debunking on Facebook? Fake news (an unwieldy term, but one that seems to have...
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“A threat to society”: Why a German investigative nonprofit signed on to help...
How much can hoax stories and misinformation influence the political opinions of voters, and how much does debunking a false story change someone’s mind? The answers to those questions remain somewhat...
View ArticleIs Spotify’s move into original podcasts a pure platform play or something...
I’ve written a bunch about Vox Media’s podcast operations before, and the thing that’s always stood out to me is the way in which its audio initiatives are currently spread out across several brands...
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This “Wikipedia for fact-checking” by students makes more room for context...
It may not be too late for a little course correction on how we’re all consuming and evaluating — or not — information in a digital environment. But squeezing some ideological diversity into readers’...
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Uma “Wikipédia de verificação de factos” para ajudar a dar contexto
Pode não ser tarde de mais para uma pequena correcção no rumo da maneira como todos consumimos e avaliamos (ou não) a informação num ambiente digital. Mas incluir alguma diversidade ideológica nas...
View Article“The center-right…is the least represented portion of the media spectrum”
A new report out of Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society shows that, during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, polarization in the media ecosystem was “distinctly asymmetric.” As...
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Are your Google search results another kind of filter bubble? The answer...
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...
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Has Facebook’s algorithm change hurt hyperpartisan sites? According to this...
It also just so happens that this week, NewsWhip released a report on the performance of publishers on Facebook post-algorithm changes, which my colleague Christine Schmidt wrote up here. NewsWhip’s...
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In the U.S., the left trusts the mainstream media more than the right, and...
As Facebook moves to privilege “broadly trusted” sources in its News Feed, our research — more of which you’ll find in this year’s Reuters Digital News Report — shows that broadcasters and newspapers...
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There’s a big difference between the number of people who worry about fake...
“The biggest single gap between perception and what people actually see.” The Reuters Digital News Report for 2018 — which we wrote up here — includes big sections on fake news and misinformation. A...
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Here’s how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all...
Surveys about “media trust” suffer from a definitional problem. “Do you trust the media?” is a meaningful question only if we know what “the media” is. Is it The New York Times and CNN? Fox News and...
View ArticleWhat have tech companies done wrong with fake news? Google (yep) lists the ways
“Warning! This story describes a misrepresentation of women.” NewsMavens, a news source curated entirely by women at European news organizations, has launched #FemFacts, a fact-checking initiative...
View ArticleFacebook launches its “test” News tab in the U.S., but you may not see it yet
It’s heeeee-ere: On Friday, the Facebook News tab we’ve been hearing about since the summer became reality, launching today to some users in the U.S. with “local original reporting by surfacing local...
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Pretty much no one has seen Facebook News yet, but it’s off to a rough start
It’s been only three days since Facebook News rolled out as a test to about 200,000 people in the U.S., meaning that only a tiny handful of Facebook users have seen it. (I had a brief moment of...
View ArticleWhy do Americans share so much fake news? One big reason is they aren’t...
Many Americans share fake news on social media because they’re simply not paying attention to whether the content is accurate — not necessarily because they can’t tell real from made-up news, a new...
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Facebook is letting a lot of climate change denial slide despite promises to...
Facebook is failing to label many posts from websites most likely to publish climate change misinformation, according to a new report from a British watchdog group. That’s despite the company rolling...
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