I have written on journalism and media trends eariler few years ago. So it is time for update. What is the state of journalism and news publishing in 2017? NiemanLab’s predictions for 2017 are a good place to start thinking about what lies ahead for journalism. There, Matt Waite puts us in our place straight away by telling us that the people running the media are the problem.
There has been changes on tech publishing. In January 2017 International Data Group, the owner of PCWorld magazine and market researcher IDC, on Thursday said it was being acquired by China Oceanwide Holdings Group and IDG Capital, the investment management firm run by IDG China executive Hugo Shong. In 2016 Arrow bought EE Times, EDN, TechOnline and lots more from UBM.
Here are some article links and information bits on journalist and media in 2017:
Soothsayers’ guides to journalism in 2017 article take a look at journalism predictions and the value of this year’s predictions.
What Journalism Needs To Do Post-Election article tells that faced with the growing recognition that the electorate was uniformed or, at minimum, deeply in the thrall of fake news, far too many journalists are responding not with calls for change but by digging in deeper to exactly the kinds of practices that got us here in the first place.
Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You Ever Dreamed article says that what we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020 as incipient technologies appear likely to soon obliterate the line between real and fake.
Headlines matter article tells that in 2017, headlines will matter more than ever and journalists will need to wrest control of headline writing from social-optimization teams. People get their news from headlines now in a way they never did in the past.
Why new journalism grads are optimistic about 2017 article tells that since today’s college journalism students have been in school, the forecasts for their futures has been filled with words like “layoffs,” “cutbacks,” “buyouts” and “freelance.” Still many people are optimistic about the future because the main motivation for being a journalist is often “to make a difference.”
Updating social media account can be a serious job. Zuckerberg has 12+ Facebook employees helping him with posts and comments on his Facebook page and professional photographers to snap personal moments.
Wikipedia Is Being Ripped Apart By a Witch Hunt For Secretly Paid Editors article tells that with undisclosed paid editing on the rise, Wikipedians and the Wikimedia Foundation are working together to stop the practice without discouraging user participation. Paid editing is permissible under Wikimedia Foundation’s terms of use as long as they disclose these conflicts of interest on their user pages, but not all paid editors make these disclosures.
Big Internet giants are working on how to make content better for mobile devices. Instant Articles is a new way for any publisher to create fast, interactive articles on Facebook. Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a project that it aims to accelerate content on mobile devices. Both of those systems have their advantages and problems.
Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier article tells that there’s a new form of digital censorship sweeping the globe, and it could be the start of something devastating. The centralization of the internet via app stores has made government censorship easier. If the app isn’t in a country’s app store, it effectively doesn’t exist. For more than a decade, we users of digital devices have actively championed an online infrastructure that now looks uniquely vulnerable to the sanctions of despots and others who seek to control information.
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For every thing that exists, people will think every possible thought about it, and eventually will comunicate these ideas.
And you can’t control that.
Want to neatly control that? Sure, welcome yourself to the totalitarian club.
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Don’t believe everything you read even if it fits your beliefs. Social engineering on a grand scale is real.
How I became an ‘extremist’ overnight
https://spectator.us/became-extremist-overnight/
As with the Covington students, my smile has been taken as evidence of a sinister right-wing conspiracy
In disinformation campaigns designed to destroy a person’s reputation, lies are mixed with kernels of truth to make it difficult for even good-faith readers to discern fact from fiction.
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So, the Trump administration is going ahead, directly contrary to established social media platform policies, and creating fake accounts for surveillance purposes? And that’s legal?
US says it plans to create fake social media accounts to monitor immigrants
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-government-to-use-fake-social-media-accounts-to-monitor-immigrants-seeking-visas-citizenship
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers can now use fake social media accounts to monitor immigrants seeking visas, green cards and citizenship.
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Key concepts for making informed choices
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02407-9
Teach people to think critically about claims and comparisons using these concepts, urge Andrew D. Oxman and an alliance of 24 researchers — they will make better decisions.
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https://anycloud.us/2019/08/20/current-threats-cybercrime/
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/18/the-mainstream-media-have-still-not-learned-the-lessons-of-gamergate/
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https://www.internetgovernance.org/2019/08/18/more-debate-about-social-medias-impact-on-society/
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https://www.poppulo.com/blog/7-creative-ideas-for-your-employee-newsletter/
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https://www.statista.com/chart/19058/how-many-websites-are-there/
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New easy-to-use Deepfake app means anyone can create convincing fake news videos
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/new-easy-use-deepfake-app-19165738
ZAO can place anyone inside their favourite movie based on just a single selfie.
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Game creator’s suicide after feminist Zoe Quinn accuses him of abuse shows peril of Twitter trials
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/467831-zoe-quinn-gamergate-alec-holowka-suicide/?fbclid=IwAR2AJ0WfIJILJg0D2RkVE4YO-q8c3osTxu_gv-dSks6bDslLd8bvrjdeb24
The unraveling of Alec Holowka’s life in the days after facing unproven accusations should remind us why, at some point, civilized society turned away from mob rule and embraced due process.
Not only is your social media feed becoming a live broadcast of an execution of the lost and the vulnerable, but the people handed the axe and hood may be no saner than the ones they are beheading.
, let’s chart the fatal sequence that perfectly shows how NOT to handle any sexual abuse allegations
August 26: Zoe Quinn, the feminist game developer whose conduct had sparked Gamergate, the five-year ideological war between online communities, accuses Holowka, the indie co-author of cult hit Night in the Woods, of mistreatment, via a lengthy Twitter post.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Holowka
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”For the sake of history and posterity, it is time that digital ephemera is valued as highly as the vintage gadgets that used to run it. People who are serious about old hardware should make sure its software lives on too.”
Opinion FT Magazine
Why we must preserve the web’s disappearing history
https://www.ft.com/content/ccdbdf1e-cdd7-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f?shareType=nongift
Collectors prize vintage hardware. It’s a pity software and websites don’t receive the same attention
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Don’t believe everything you read even if it fits your beliefs. Social engineering on a grand scale is real.
How I became an ‘extremist’ overnight
https://spectator.us/became-extremist-overnight/
As with the Covington students, my smile has been taken as evidence of a sinister right-wing conspiracy
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Finnish politician under ‘hate crime investigation’ for sharing Bible verse on Facebook
https://www.foxnews.com/world/bible-verse-lgbt-hate-crime-investigation
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Luxury Dublin hotel bans all social media influencers
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/hotel-bans-influencers-instagram-social-media-stars-elle-darby-the-white-moose-cafe-a8166926.html
‘I had nothing but the purest intentions’
A hotel has banned YouTubers and Instagram stars – after a 22-year-old YouTuber asked for a five-night free stay and broke down in tears when she was bluntly refused.
Stenson responded to Darby’s request, publicly, on The White Moose Cafe Facebook page
However, although Stenson attempted to black-out Darby’s contact information in the message he posted to Facebook, social media users were quick to identify the YouTuber as Darby – and began to attack her with negative comments about her request.
Darby also explains she does not know why the hotel owner decided to post her email, stating: “I don’t really know what their intent was – it was just malicious” and that since his post, she has received countless comments calling her a “disgusting freeloader.”
However, since the 22-year-old’s heartfelt response was uploaded to YouTube, it appears the Dublin hotel has faced their own backlash following the controversy
In a recent post to the Facebook page in response to the video, Stenson declared in all capital letters: “All bloggers banned from our business.”
“Following the backlash received after asking an unidentified blogger to pay for a hotel room, I have taken the decision to ban all bloggers from our hotel and cafe,” he wrote – before denying that he had ever exposed Darby, and “the sense of entitlement is just too strong in the blogging community.”
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Satire Is Funny. We Need To Calm Down.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/dave-nappi/2014/03/satire-is-funny-we-need-to-calm-down/
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Tiedätkö, miten kiinnität kohderyhmäsi huomion Facebookissa? Case: tilastollinen A/B-testaus
https://parcero.fi/facebook-ab-testaus
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IAB Tech Lab proposes a new tracking alternative to the cookie
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/04/iab-cookie/
The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Tech Lab is calling for a new approach to online tracking, one that would replace the long-lived cookie.
In a lengthy post, the IAB Tech Lab’s Jordan Mitchell runs through the history of tracking, describing the cookie as “a boon to the internet” that allowed websites to tailor their ads and content to each visitor, while acknowledging that this approach has some shortfalls
THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNET, IDENTITY, PRIVACY AND TRACKING – HOW COOKIES AND TRACKING EXPLODED, AND WHY WE NEED NEW STANDARDS FOR CONSUMER PRIVACY
https://iabtechlab.com/blog/evolution-of-internet-identity-privacy-tracking/
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Jo yli puolet Google-haun käyttäjistä ei klikkaa mitään hakutulosta – verkkosivuilla tarvitaan uusia panostuksia
https://www.karhuhelsinki.fi/blogi/jo-yli-puolet-google-haun-kayttajista-ei-klikkaa-mitaan-hakutulosta
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4 Facts about Memes You (Probably) Didn’t Know
https://blog.paessler.com/4-facts-about-memes-you-probably-did-not-know
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How to Spot Pseudoscience on the Internet
https://blog.hackster.io/how-to-spot-pseudoscience-on-the-internet-e7d1f53796a2
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LEHDISTÖTIEDOTTEILLA ENEMMÄN NÄKYVYYTTÄ JA JULKISUUTTA
http://www.salaisetjutut.fi/?p=50#more-50
Mikä on lehdistötiedotteiden salaisuus? Miksi ne ovat parempia kuin maksetut mainokset?
Kerron Sinulle nyt salaisuuden, jota monikaan ei tiedä: lehdistötiedotteilla voit saada huomattavasti enemmän näkyvyyttä ja uskottavuutta yrityksesi palveluille ja tuotteille kuin perinteisillä maksetuilla mainoksilla.
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Ren LaForme / Poynter:
Since publishing the DEA’s opioid database in July, WaPo says 94 local and 11 national news outlets have used it for stories — In 2016, Eric Eyre at the Charleston Gazette-Mail revealed the breathtaking size and scope of the painkiller industry that was ravaging parts of West Virginia.
The Washington Post created a database about the opioid epidemic. It’s had nearly 40,000 downloads.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/the-washington-post-created-a-database-about-the-opioid-epidemic-its-had-nearly-40000-downloads/
In 2016, Eric Eyre at the Charleston Gazette-Mail revealed the breathtaking size and scope of the painkiller industry that was ravaging parts of West Virginia.
780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills over six years. 433 pain pills for every person in the state. 1,728 overdose deaths. In West Virginia alone.
Eyre had been denied access to the data, which drug companies argued was “proprietary,” until a county circuit court judge unsealed documents that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had sent to the state’s attorney general.
When 2,000 communities across the U.S. sued dozens of big drug companies over the destruction that painkillers were causing, a federal judge ordered the ARCOS data turned over to the plaintiffs for examination, but sealed the data away from the public and the media as part of a protective order.
That’s when the Post and HD Media, the owner of the Charleston Gazette-Mail, jumped in. They appealed the decision.
And in July, the Washington Post’s data team published a database of millions of painkiller transactions — available for the public, researchers, academics and other news organizations to use.
In the past, The Washington Post has published databases for anyone, even competitors, to access.
But this one was different. Leen said the painkillers database was “orders of magnitude bigger” than anything they’ve published before. It’s full of information about the size and scope of the painkiller epidemic in nearly every community in the United States.
As of Friday, Leen said 94 local outlets have written their own stories using information from the databases.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Survey: 74% of US adults think it’s a good idea for journalists to use social media, but 65% disapprove of journalists sharing personal views about news
Americans Endorse Reporter-Audience Social Media Interaction
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/266264/americans-endorse-reporter-audience-social-media-interaction.aspx
Americans give a “thumbs up” to news reporters using social media to interact with their audiences, but they prefer that reporters use it to correct the record or give greater depth on the stories they are reporting, instead of expressing their opinions about the news. A new Gallup/Knight Foundation survey finds 74% of U.S. adults saying it is generally a “good idea” for news reporters to interact via social media, with 25% describing it as a “bad idea.”
Although Americans are in favor of reporters using social media, most don’t see them engaging in give and take with their audiences very often. Just 10% say they see reporters interacting with their audiences
Americans who have seen reporter-audience interaction are most positive about it, with roughly nine in 10 of those who see it frequently or occasionally saying it is a good idea. Two-thirds of those who never see such activity still believe it is a good idea, as do 55% of those who do not use social media.
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Eurooppalaisten mediatalojen vertailu: Yle nousi luotettavuudessa ykköseksi
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10963524
Reuters-instituutin raportin mukaan Yle on kansalaisten mielestä luotettavampi kuin esimerkiksi BBC.
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Mitä jos 9/11 tapahtuisi nyt? “Yle käynnistäisi suoran lähetyksen minuuteissa”
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10939966
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Olkiluoto 3 on lähes valmis, mutta uskooko kukaan?
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10958171
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CJEU: Public documents could be censored because of copyright
https://edri.org/cjeu-public-documents-could-be-censored-because-of-copyright/
On 29 July 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a judgment that could have serious impact on freedom of expression.
CJEU replies: Copyright is king. Or freedom of the press. It depends.
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Janne Saarikiven kolumni: Valeuutisia vastustetaan mediassa ja politiikassa, mutta samaan aikaan niiden luomista opetetaan arvostettuna taitona kauppakoulussa
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10947585
Valeuutinenhan on käsite, joka on paljolti korvannut huolen sananvapaudesta. Joskus menneisyydessä oltiin huolissaan kaikkien mahdollisuudesta ilmaista mielipiteitään. Nykyisin taas ollaan huolissaan pikemminkin siitä, että mielipiteet eivät aina pohjaa niin sanottuihin tosiasioihin, vaan saattavat olla myös esimerkiksi pahanlaatuista propagandaa. Samalla pohditaan, onko ihmisillä kykyä erottaa toisistaan tietoa ja valetta.
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Journalistit ja poliitikot puistelevat päätään valeuutisille, mutta samaan aikaan yhteiskunta on täynnä valehtelun ja propagandan kouluja, joilla on tällaisia nimiä: mainostoimisto, konsulttitoimisto, brändiasiantuntija, henkilöbrändäyskurssi, tuotteen tarinallistamisen akatemia. Niistä valmistuvat ovat menestyneitä ja hyvin palkattuja.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10947585
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Google Just Got Really Bad News. Here’s Why It’ll
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/google-is-now-under-investigation-by-48-states-puerto-rico-district-of-columbia.html?cid=sf01002
Probably Get Worse, and What It Means for You
Every state except Alabama and California are now investigating the company for anticompetitive behavior in its advertising business.
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Give EU more powers to take on academic publishers, says research commissioner
https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/give-eu-more-powers-take-academic-publishers-says-research-commissioner
In a swansong message, Carlos Moedas calls on member states to give his successor more leverage to cut the cost of science journals
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Protest PR: the creative team behind Hong Kong’s anti-government demonstrations
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=VbSJzwi-xOY
Hong Kong protesters are not only taking their message to the streets.
Thousands are volunteering to create graphics, posters, videos and other content meant to promote their cause.
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Meet Facebook’s latest fake
An “Oversight Board” programmed by Facebook should not be confused with democratic oversight
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/21/meet-facebooks-latest-fake/
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, a 35-year-old billionaire who keeps refusing to sit in front of international parliamentarians to answer questions about his ad business’ impact on democracy and human rights around the world, has a new piece of accountability theatre to sell you: An “Oversight Board“.
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Ylen Trollitehdas-peli palkittiin kansainvälisessä journalismikilpailussa – kiinnitti myös Wikipedian perustajan huomion
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10977035
https://trollfactory.yle.fi/
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William Davies / The Guardian:
Contrary to hype around big data, the explosion of available information amid eroding trust in media makes it harder, not easier, to achieve consensus on truth
Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/19/why-cant-we-agree-on-whats-true-anymore
It’s not about foreign trolls, filter bubbles or fake news. Technology encourages us to believe we can all have first-hand access to the ‘real’ facts – and now we can’t stop fighting about it.
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The Winners and Losers of YouTube’s Conspiracy Crackdown
https://medium.com/@markoledwich/the-winners-and-losers-of-youtubes-conspiracy-crackdown-60804c3e0436
In January 2019, YouTube announced that they will be cracking down on conspiracy theories by changing search results and suggested videos to reduce the spread of “borderline content”, that “comes close to — but doesn’t quite cross the line of — violating our Community Guidelines”.
It is a widespread view that people are pulled into a rabbit hole of disinformation by YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, which recommends them one extreme video after another. I have previously tried to show how this picture is not accurate, but matters of accuracy don’t prevent YouTube from taking measures to respond to the media backlash.
Loser: Deep-State Conspiracy Channels
No Change: Left/Center/Right
Winner: Corporate Media
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Hacker Who Revealed Soccer Secrets Is Charged With 147 Crimes
Rui Pinto ran a website called Football Leaks and won praise as a whistle-blower. Portugal’s authorities consider him a criminal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/sports/football-leaks-rui-pinto.html
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Not a free speech platform: Facebook declares it’s a ‘publisher’ & can censor whomever it wants, walking into legal trap
https://www.rt.com/usa/469209-facebook-publisher-laura-loomer-lawsuit/
Facebook has invoked its free speech right as a publisher, insisting its ability to smear users as extremists is protected, but its legal immunity thus far has rested on a law which protects platforms, not publishers. Which is it?
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Disney’s Bob Iger says he pulled the plug on Disney buying Twitter at the last minute because the nastiness on the platform is “extraordinary” —
The Slow-Burning Success of Disney’s Bob Iger
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/style/disney-bob-iger-book.html
Hollywood’s nicest C.E.O. on the great family dramas of Hollywood — and why he, too, is disturbed by Twitter.
“Look, no one will ever have a monopoly on mythology or storytelling — not us, not anybody,” Mr. Iger says.
The angst was summed up when James Brooks, a creator of “The Simpsons,” a Fox show, posted on Twitter an image of Homer Simpson strangling Mickey Mouse.
“I love it when we make fun of ourselves,” Mr. Iger says. “A little self-inflicted irreverence goes a long way.”
And what about the moment when the Happiest Place on Earth thought about annexing the Nastiest Place on Earth? Mr. Iger writes in the book about how he pulled the plug at the last minute on a deal to buy Twitter, thinking it could help Disney modernize its distribution. But he had a feel in his gut it wasn’t right, and called a stunned Jack Dorsey to tell him.
“The troubles were greater than I wanted to take on, greater than I thought it was responsible for us to take on,” he tells me. “There were Disney brand issues, the whole impact of technology on society. The nastiness is extraordinary. I like looking at my Twitter newsfeed because I want to follow 15, 20 different subjects. Then you turn and look at your notifications and you’re immediately saying, why am I doing this? Why do I endure this pain? Like a lot of these platforms, they have the ability to do a lot of good in our world. They also have an ability to do a lot of bad. I didn’t want to take that on.”
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Why comics are so important and why we should stop underappreciating them.
Your Brain on Comics: A Cognitive Model of Visual Narrative Comprehension
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12421
Sequential images span across human history and cultures from cave paintings, tapestries, and scrolls to visual narratives like contemporary comics and picture stories
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It connected the entire globe, and now we’re reaping the consequences.
The Internet Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed?
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/news-history/internet-broken-can-it-be-fixed?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=page-content-promo&utm_content=08292019
A new Stanford GSB course probes the online world’s growing problems and potential remedies.
It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of connecting computers across the world into one sprawling digital network still seemed like a miraculous breakthrough, one that would transform lives, giving all of us access to vast amounts of knowledge and forging connections with like-minded souls in distant places.
In this utopian world, we would be empowered, and everything, including not only prosperity but also democracy, would be much better.
Also, we’d get to watch videos of monkeys riding dogs.
But today, the internet seems like an increasingly troubled place, where fake news stories run rampant, users’ personal data is gathered surreptitiously, and economic power is increasingly centralized in the hands of a few giant companies that operate with scant government oversight. Each day brings another front-page story about the perils of the technology industry.
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‘Unbelievable And Shameful’: Fox News Slammed For Attacks On Greta Thunberg
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/09/24/unbelievable-and-shameful-fox-news-slammed-for-attacks-on-greta-thunberg/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Gordie/#676f7264696
Autism advocacy organizations issued condemnations.
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BBC:
EU’s top court rules that Google does not have to apply “right to be forgotten” globally
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49808208?ocid=socialflow_twitter
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What’s the right way to sponsor a YouTube influencer?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/23/whats-the-right-way-to-sponsor-a-youtube-influencer/
How do you sponsor YouTube influencers cost-effectively?
Based on insights from Bjarke Felbo of Rune (LinkedIn).
Influencers often expect compensation proportional to subscribers, but conversions happen proportional to views. So go after the influencers with high views and low subscribers. That’s the trick.
We’ve had the best success with 30-60 second promo spots at the beginning of the influencer’s video.
We’ve seen success depend on the video it’s attached to and what time of day/week it’s posted, so we’re strict about setting rules around that. Or, we give them a bonus based on the video’s view count to incentivize them to put our spot on a high-quality video.
Be careful with repeat promotions with the same influencer. These haven’t yielded noteworthy returns for us — even after months. It’s likely that the audience becomes saturated.
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Google refuses to pay publishers in France
The announcement pours cold water on publishers’ hopes of getting more money from Google after an EU reform of online copyright law.
https://www.politico.eu/article/licensing-agreements-with-press-publishers-france-google/
Google will not pay press publishers in France to display their content and will instead change the way articles appear in search results, a senior executive said on Wednesday.
“We don’t accept payment from anyone to be included in search results. We sell ads, not search results, and every ad on Google is clearly marked. That’s also why we don’t pay publishers when people click on their links in a search result,” Richard Gingras, vice president for news at Google, said in a blogpost.
France is so far the only country to have transposed the European Union’s copyright reform’s new right for press publishers into a national law, which comes into force in October.
According to estimates by some press publishers in France, the loss of revenues for their sector due to Google and Facebook’s power in the online advertising market ranges between €250 million and €320 million euros per year.
Publishers were hoping the neighboring right would “compensate” for that loss — but Google’s announcement suggests the hopes were unfounded.
“When the French law comes into force, we will not show preview content in France for a European news publication unless the publisher has taken steps to tell us that’s what they want,”
https://www.blog.google/perspectives/richard-gingras/how-google-invests-news/
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Voter manipulation on social media now a global problem, report finds
https://tcrn.ch/2mW9fGQ
New research by the Oxford Internet Institute has found that social media manipulation is getting worse, with rising numbers of governments and political parties making cynical use of social media algorithms, automation and big data to manipulate public opinion at scale — with hugely worrying implications for democracy.
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Speculative scientific paper drives false media reports on GMO mosquitoes
https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2019/09/speculative-scientific-paper-drives-false-media-reports-gmo-mosquitoes/
As a result, media widely and falsely reported that Oxitec’s work in Brazil had gone awry or failed altogether, resulting in robust, mutant offspring that could affect efforts to control the biting insects. Gizmodo’s headline typified the inaccurate, alarmist reporting: “Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Are Breeding in Brazil, Despite Biotech Firm’s Assurances to the Contrary.”
Anti-GMO groups seized the occasion to further trash the GM mosquito, claiming the modified insects were spreading in the environment
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‘OK’ is now a hate symbol, the ADL says
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/09/26/us/adl-new-hate-symbols/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F
Los Angeles (CNN) – The “OK” hand gesture is now a hate symbol, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League.
The ADL added that symbol along with several others on Thursday to its long-standing database of slogans and symbols used by extremists.
These are the new symbols of hate
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2017/02/21/us/hate-symbols-changing-trnd/index.html?r=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%2F
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ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 300 parties in 34 countries. Through their interfaces, you can understand targeting and optimisation, compare monetary investment, and trace the timelines of ads.
https://ad.watch/