Scientific American
How Misinformation Spreads—and Why We Trust It
11+ min · · The most effective misinformation starts with seeds of truth · Shared by 150, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Vaughan Bell, Gregg Caruso, hiten.eth, Liliane Ferrari ™, Liv 😷, Miguel Angel Escotet, luis antónio santos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Anita Leirfall, Lluís Codina, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Gabriele, Jennifer Ouellette, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Niklaus Gerber
The Guardian
Innocence lost: What did you do before the internet?
10 min · · People born in the late 1970s are the last to have grown up without the internet. Social scientists call them the Last of the Innocents. Leah McLaren ponders a time when our attention was allowed to… · Shared by 87, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, Ines Bieler, Fern, Ste Davies, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Mike Davidson, Gerrit Eicker, Mark Kaigwa
BBC News (World)
Why we believe fake news
4 min · · The pace of life in the 21st Century has created “infostorms” that overwhelm our senses. Is believing in some of the sensationalist things we see actually a rational response? · Shared by 84, including rudolph regter, Thomas Power, Dan Ariely, Liliane Ferrari ™, Gerrit Eicker, Bernard Marr, Glyn Britton
The New York Times
There Is No Tech Backlash
7 min · · Worse, we think there is one. · Shared by 79, including Keith Rabois, Thomas Power, Michael (मुकेश), Gerrit Eicker, Matthias Lampe, Benedict Evans, Chris Messina, Mathew Ingram, Vikram Dutt, felix salmon, Evan Selinger
Teen Vogue
Why Teens Are Creating Their Own News Outlets
2 min · · Teens care about the news. They just don’t like traditional media. · Shared by 78, including Mathew Ingram, Philanthropy News Digest, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Thomas Power, Oliver Gassner https://mastodon.social/@oliverg, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Mark Kaigwa, Nir Eyal, Joe Germuska, Vincenzo Tremonte, Dr. Alec Couros, Gerrit Eicker, Nieman Reports
VICE
This Meme Explains Why TikTok Isn't Like Any Other Social Media
7 min · · Point-of-view or POV videos are TikTok’s chameleon genre that give creators room to express themselves, and give TikTok room to come into its own. · Shared by 50, including Aldo Gnocchi, Gerrit Eicker, i-D
CJR
Could WordPress + Tumblr create an alternative to Facebook?
7 min · · When Verizon announced earlier this week that it was selling Tumblr, the blogging platform Yahoo acquired in 2013 for $1.1 billion, most of the attention focused on the price: according to Axios, the… · Shared by 48, including Gerrit Eicker, Rick Powell, Jonathan Kogan, rogerverhoeven, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Mathew Ingram
Pew Research Fact Tank
10 facts about Americans and Twitter
4 min · · Around one-in-five U.S. adults say they use Twitter. Users tend to be younger and to have more education and higher incomes than adults overall. · Shared by 48, including Klaus Eck, Gerrit Eicker, Tara Imani, AIA, Pew Research Internet, CMSWire.com, Mark Kaigwa, luis antónio santos, @nonprofitorgs / Nonprofit Tech for Good
The Wall Street Journal
Facebook Offers News Outlets Millions of Dollars a Year to License Content
3 min · · Facebook is offering news outlets millions of dollars for the rights to put their content in a news section that the company hopes to launch later this year. · Shared by 47, including Tomio Geron, Mathew Ingram, Thomas Power, Jonathan Kogan, Daniel Jörg, Matt Navarra, Katja Evertz, Gerrit Eicker
TechCrunch
Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box
8 min · · Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming, and content co-watching. If you can get past the creepiness, the new Portal TV let you hang out with… · Shared by 44, including Thomas Power, Gerrit Eicker, Jon Loomer, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Matt Navarra, John Koetsier, Mari Smith
Pew Research Fact Tank
5 key takeaways about the state of the news media in 2018
4 min · · Newspaper circulation in the U.S. reached its lowest level since 1940, and the audience for local TV news has steadily declined. · Shared by 41, including Vincenzo Tremonte, Mathew Ingram, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Gerrit Eicker, Nieman Reports
TechCrunch
Facebook reveals early results from its subscription-focused local news accelerator
2 min · · It’s been more than a year since Facebook announced that it would be funding a Local News Subscriptions Accelerator. Now the company is sharing some of the ways in which program has led to new… · Shared by 40, including Jon Loomer, Vincenzo Tremonte, Matt Navarra, Gerrit Eicker, Mathew Ingram, Lluís Codina
journalism.org
Trends and Facts on Newspapers
10 min · · Newspapers are a critical part of the American news landscape, but the newspaper industry has been hit hard as more and more Americans consume news online causing newspaper circulation to decline. See… · Shared by 33, including luis antónio santos, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Bjorn Larsen, Mathew Ingram, Armin Wolf, Gerrit Eicker
The Guardian
Guardian broke even last year, parent company confirms
2 min · · Growing digital revenues and reader contributions help Guardian News & Media to operational profit of £800,000 · Shared by 30, including Benedict Evans, Thomas Power, George M 🇪🇺, Gerrit Eicker, Vincenzo Tremonte
The Information
Axios Joins Media Push Into Software With Newsletter Product
2 min · · Digital media publisher Axios is planning to enter a new business that includes selling software for helping companies create newsletters for their employees. The move comes at a moment when more… · Shared by 24, including Crunchbase News, Gerrit Eicker
Frederic Filloux
The Consumer Trends That Destroyed Media’s Business Model
5 min · · Shared by 24, including Gerrit Eicker, Julien Bilger, luis antónio santos, Mathew Ingram, Lluís Codina