9 Best Articles in 2022
Data & Society
Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism
Data & Society
20+ min read · · This is a crib of a talk that Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave at the Online News Association conference in Austin… · Shared by 219, including Mark Little, Katja Evertz, Alex Payne, Stephanie A Kowalski, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Jeremy Caplan, Clemens M. Schuster, Antonio Vieira Santos - #SPS_Live, Steve Rayson, Liliane Ferrari ™, kp, Mark Kaigwa, Jeff Jarvis, Mathew Ingram, danah boyd, Tris Hussey, Gabriele, Philippe Surber, Nir Eyal, Nick Lüthi
WIRED
Meet the Macedonian Teens Who Mastered Fake News and Corrupted the US Election
WIRED
~11 min read · · These guys didn’t care if Trump won or lost. They only wanted pocket money. · Shared by 179, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Liliane Ferrari ™, Hannes Grassegger, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Mark Kaigwa, Nicolas Granatino 🌻, Thomas Power, Andrea Desiato, Damien Van Achter, Dayyan Smith, Rodrigo Prior, Tarik ESSAADI, Parin Vachhani, Mathew Ingram
BuzzFeed
Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The US Election
BuzzFeed
9 min read · · A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined. · Shared by 71, including Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Thomas Pleil, Fawzi A. Baba-Ali, Mathew Ingram, Damien Van Achter, Pete Skomoroch, George M 🇪🇺, Nico Luchsinger, Thomas Knüwer, Steve Rayson, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Leslie D, Mark Kaigwa, Matt Navarra
The Washington Post
Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’
The Washington Post
7 min read · · The man responsible for many of this year's viral political hoaxes thinks he may have swung the election. · Shared by 67, including Mark Kaigwa, Leslie D, Ryan Boren, Katja Evertz, Rand Fishkin, Nick Lüthi, Mark Bao, Luca Like, Mathew Ingram
Data & Society
Fake News Is Not the Only Problem
Data & Society
~11 min read · · Bias, propaganda, and deliberately misleading information are much more prevalent and do more damage. · Shared by 55, including ThomNagy, stephtara@octodon.social, Andy Weissman, Damien Van Achter, Andrea Desiato, Mathew Ingram, Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA@mastodon.social), Klaus Eck, Matthias Lampe, Diogo Mónica, Harpreet Singh
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
The New Neural Internet is Coming
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
4 min read · · And it looks pretty scary from here · Shared by 46, including Thomas Power, Paolo Sinelli, Christian P. Stobbe, David Smooke, 瑞拿頭, Mark Kaigwa, Ward Plunet
fb.me
Two popular conservative Twitter personalities were just outed as Russian trolls
fb.me
7 min read · · Jenna Abrams and Pamela Moore wrote tweets that were widely shared by mainstream media outlets during the 2016 election. Turns out they were really Russian trolls. · Shared by 42, including Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power, Nils Hitze, Christiane Link, Klaus Eck, Inurfacesuka Дедечка, Björn Ognibeni
Guardian Tech
Fears mount over WhatsApp's role in spreading fake news
Guardian Tech
5 min read · · App blamed for circulating false information in India, Brazil, Kenya and now the UK · Shared by 40, including Matt Navarra, Jochen Burkhard, Johannes Lenz, Thomas Power, Merkstatt@troet.cafe
VICE
The Data That Turned the World Upside Down
VICE
~18 min read · · Psychologist Michal Kosinski developed a method to analyze people in minute detail based on their Facebook activity. Did a similar tool help propel Donald Trump to victory? Two reporters from Zurich… · Shared by 26, including Damien Van Achter, Hannes Grassegger
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Poynter
Google is now highlighting fact checks in search
Poynter
4 min read · · Google rolled out a new feature Friday morning that will help fact checks stand out in search results. If a search query returns a result that includes a fact check, it will be featured as a snippe… · Shared by 22, including Mathew Ingram, Mark Kaigwa, kp, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶
getbadnews.com
Can you beat my score? Play the fake news game!
getbadnews.com
· Drop all pretense of ethics and choose the path that builds your persona as an unscrupulous media magnate. Your task is to get as many followers as you can while slowly building up fake credibility as… · Shared by 21, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, luis antónio santos, Leni "Lee" 🎮⚔️, Fabricio Teixeira, Mike Butcher🇬🇧🇪🇺, Gideonro, Esther Schindler
Guardian Tech
Thirty countries use 'armies of opinion shapers' to manipulate democracy
Guardian Tech
4 min read · · Governments in Venezuela, the Philippines, Turkey and elsewhere use social media to influence elections, drive agendas and counter critics, says report · Shared by 21, including Mark Kaigwa, 𝙉𝙞𝙘𝙤 𝙇𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖, Thomas Power
The Guardian
Climate misinformation on Facebook ‘increasing substantially’, study says
The Guardian
3 min read · · A new analysis reveals that an estimated 818,000 climate misinformation posts received 1.36m views everyday · Shared by 19, including @grzewap@mastodon.social
Nautilus Magazine
Ideology Is the Original Augmented Reality
Nautilus Magazine
~16 min read · · Released in July 2016, Pokémon Go is a location-based, augmented-reality game for mobile devices, typically played on mobile phones;… · Shared by 19, including Thomas Power, Nir Eyal, Mark Kaigwa
TechCrunch
Facebook buys ads in Indian newspapers to warn about WhatsApp fakes
TechCrunch
5 min read · · As Twitter finally gets serious about purging fake accounts, and YouTube says it will try to firefight conspiracy theories and fake news flaming across its platform with $25M to fund bona fide journalism, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is grappling with its own fake demons in India, where social media pla… · Shared by 16, including Johannes Lenz, Matt Navarra, Merkstatt@troet.cafe
TNW
How to avoid getting fooled by fake news on Facebook
TNW
8 min read · · As rumblings of a fake news problem turned into chatter, and then a crescendo, Mark Zuckerberg backed away slowly, insisting the company he founded, Facebook, didn’t have a problem. Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99% of what people see is authentic. Only a very small amount is fake news and hoaxes. The hoaxes […] · Shared by 14, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Matt Navarra, Klaus Eck
Facebook Newsroom
News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News
Facebook Newsroom
2 min read · · We're committed to doing our part to address the issue of fake news and hoaxes on Facebook. · Shared by 13, including Damien Van Achter, Dominic Grzbielok, Pascal Birchler
Slate
Facebook’s Crackdown on “Fake News” Might Actually Be Working
Slate
7 min read · · A new study finds that suspected hoax and propaganda sites are getting less engagement on Facebook since the 2016 election—and getting more on Twitter. · Shared by 10, including Matt Navarra
