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18 votes
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UN panel finds journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by Israeli fire
9 votes -
UK government orders Julian Assange’s extradition; appeal planned
9 votes -
Arcades, churches and laundromats: A trucker’s haven on the precipice of change
5 votes -
Finland and Russia share more than 800 miles of land border, plus the archipelago sea – a photo journey through the border zone
4 votes -
'They were shooting directly at the journalists': New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces
6 votes -
The irresistible force vs the ironized object
2 votes -
NATO troops conducted a routine war exercise in the Arctic. This year felt different.
7 votes -
Our fundamental right to shame and shun The New York Times
16 votes -
New York Times tech workers vote to certify union
19 votes -
The New York Times Tech Union vote count starts this morning, and we made a live vote tracker!
17 votes -
Views of Iceland in February – Nacho Doce, a photographer with Reuters, spent the past few weeks traveling across the country
3 votes -
The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
11 votes -
My journey down the rabbit hole of every journalist’s favorite app, Otter.ai
4 votes -
Five years later, Panama Papers still having a big impact
11 votes -
What newspapers do you support? What are the criteria you use to judge whether they're worthy of your support?
I'm sold on the idea of supporting good journalism in some way but it's less clear to me what newspapers qualify. I'm curious to hear what other folks here use / monetarily support.
12 votes -
Robin Herman, who pried open doors in the NHL, dies at 70
3 votes -
BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
32 votes -
NLRB sets NYT Tech Guild election, rejects attempts to exclude workers
7 votes -
Grid News goes live with millions in funding and a team of more than twenty journalists
17 votes -
Photojournalist Giuia Besana visits the world's northernmost priest who runs the Svalbard Church in Longyearbyen, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago
6 votes -
Paywalls everywhere you go? Get to the goodies with these two Paywall Ladder bookmarklets.
9 votes -
The phrase "no evidence" is a red flag for bad science communication
11 votes -
This wealthy Dallas church owns the most clergy homes in Texas — and it costs taxpayers six figures a year
11 votes -
China’s troll king: How a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism
3 votes -
Chris Wallace announces he is leaving Fox News, joining CNN+
11 votes -
Journalists Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa called for better protection for independent reporting as they received their joint Nobel Peace Prize
4 votes -
What to do when the KKK shoots and other lessons from Houston’s underground paper
2 votes -
BuzzFeed News writers are walking out in protest against the company
@Joe Bernstein: In my seven years at BuzzFeed News, I've never faced an "or-else" traffic quota. We're walking off today, in part, to make sure our journalists never do. pic.twitter.com/BWavn6fndG
23 votes -
Norway has expressed outrage after two television journalists were detained in Qatar ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup
4 votes -
Witness History spoke to photographer Mark Edwards, who was given unique access to document a famously photo shy community of Christiania in Denmark
11 votes -
Kyle Rittenhouse, Project Veritas, and the inability to think in terms of principles
10 votes -
America's forgotten vampire panic
7 votes -
The Verge is updating their public ethics policy "to be clearer in our interactions with public relations and corporate communications professionals"
11 votes -
Twitter expands its subscription service to news articles
6 votes -
The Guardian is trying to intimidate Eoin Higgins into retracting his coverage of transphobia in their newsroom
14 votes -
CNN, spilled milk, and why any of this matters
8 votes -
CBC is keeping Facebook comments closed on news posts
21 votes -
New York Times journalist Ben Hubbard hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts
8 votes -
Epistemology of the Internet — and of traditional media
6 votes -
How one man was wrongly accused in Kongsberg attack – many international media outlets picked up on speculative tweets
11 votes -
A secretive hedge fund is gutting newsrooms
8 votes -
Last year I started reading a physical newspaper
7 votes -
Is it me or are "news" articles on the web getting more and more irritating to read
I've recently experienced something multiple times and wanted to see if others are seeing this. I'm seeing various news articles where the first few paragraphs basically say the exact some...
I've recently experienced something multiple times and wanted to see if others are seeing this. I'm seeing various news articles where the first few paragraphs basically say the exact some information over and over again 3 or 4 times in slightly different ways. My most recent experience was this article about some hackers selling information on billions of Facebook users.
The article starts off with the title "Personal Information of More Than 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum". Straightforward and to the point. Next we get this paragraph in bold:
The private and personal information of over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a popular hacking-related forum, potentially enabling cybercriminals and unscrupulous advertisers to target Internet users globally.
Next is a bullet list of the highlights of the incident:
Highlights:
- Data scrapers are selling sensitive personal data on 1.5 billion Facebook users.
- Data contains users’: name, email, phone number, location, gender, and user ID.
- Data appears to be authentic.
- Personal data obtained through web scraping.
- Data can be utilized for phishing and account takeover attacks.
- Sold data claimed to be new from 2021.
This rehashes the number (1.5 billion) and place (Facebook), but does contain new information like what was leaked, and some unsubstantiated claims about whether it's authentic and how it was obtained.
The next paragraph repeats the 1.5 billion number a fourth time, and repeats that the data is available on a hacker forum. Two paragraphs later, we get another list of bullet points which are identical to the 2nd bullet point above; namely that the info contains:
According to the forum poster, the data provided contains the following personal information of Facebook users:
- Name
- Location
- Gender
- Phone number
- User ID
At this point I stop reading because I mistakenly think that I'm re-reading the same paragraph over and over again. It's an incredibly unpleasant experience.
Is anyone else seeing this? I've been seeing this not just on smaller sites like the one linked here, but on major news sites like CNBC and CNN, too. I know that news sites are having their budgets slashed, etc., but I literally can't read articles like this. I mean my brain just won't let me complete them because it thinks it's caught in a loop or something. It's hard to describe.
18 votes -
The NYT's partisan tale about COVID and the unvaccinated is rife with sloppy data analysis
2 votes -
High Court of Australia rules that media outlets are publishers of third-party Facebook comments
12 votes -
Savvy punditry isn’t smart
8 votes -
Gamasutra is becoming Game Developer - Switching to a new name, domain, and website this Thursday
15 votes -
Cable news military experts are on the defense industry dole
3 votes -
Images from a changing Iceland – the landscape is undergoing constant change, and the rate of that change is being accelerated by global warming
9 votes