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11 votes
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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 -
The co-founder of Snopes wrote dozens of plagiarized articles for the fact-checking site
11 votes -
Anti-vaccine protesters storm BBC HQ – years after it moved out
14 votes -
How major media outlets screwed up the vaccine 'breakthrough' story
12 votes -
Stop saying print journalism is dead. Sixty magazines launched during this crazy year
10 votes -
Is Glenn Greenwald the new master of right-wing media?
6 votes -
Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure
10 votes -
Sophisticated exploits used to breach fully-patched iPhones of journalists, activists, as detailed by Amnesty International's Security Lab
24 votes -
A remarkable silence: Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
20 votes -
Scientific American retracted pro-Palestine article without any factual errors
12 votes -
The day I almost decided to hold the press to account
8 votes -
Exxon lobbyist shares parts of their playbook with reporter on camera
5 votes -
Hong Kong's Apple Daily raided by 500 officers over national security law
11 votes -
Five things the media does to manufacture outrage
14 votes -
Slow news is good news
10 votes -
Belarus scrambled fighter and flagged false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing criticism from across Europe
33 votes -
Sponsored content
15 votes -
Scroll has been acquired by Twitter
4 votes -
Substack is selling soap operas
8 votes -
Reddit AMA: Jason Schreier, gaming journalist and author of the books Blood, Sweat, and Pixels and the upcoming Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry
9 votes -
Fox News has aired 126 discussions about trans athletes but referenced only nine trans women athletes -- none of whom dominate their sport
21 votes -
Forests cover 70% of Sweden, but many argue the model of replacing old-growth forests with monoculture plantations is bad for biodiversity
13 votes -
Fact check: Story about organs found on a cargo ship was intended as satire
5 votes -
Reuters puts its website behind a paywall
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Cambodia condemns Vice for edited photos of Khmer Rouge victims smiling
17 votes -
What are the main news sources in your country?
Here in Brazil we have: Globo, the generic "centrist"/neoliberal TV news outlet. Used subtle methods of backing a right-wing candidate in the 90s who then ruined the Brazilian economy and...
Here in Brazil we have:
Globo, the generic "centrist"/neoliberal TV news outlet. Used subtle methods of backing a right-wing candidate in the 90s who then ruined the Brazilian economy and (apparently) massively exaggerated the Car Wash operation, even if Lula did something wrong.
Record, which is owned by the largest evangelical Church here and I'd imagine is often a mouthpiece for them.
Cultura, which is the only traditional news outlet here that can actually be called left-leaning, and I don't think they are as ostensibly "moderate" as the American news outlets, which is good.
Band, which is the one all about showing all the crime all the time, presumably to justify the law and order policies as opposed to welfare to it's viewers.
From here we have various (mostly but not entirely) right-wing and religious 'news' channels.
Online there are news outlets like Nexo, El País (for Brazil) and the international news outlets which will occasionally cover the big Brazilian news stories, but I don't think most of them are very popular, at least among most people who, for how divided we are, aren't that political, especially if you aren't a Bolsonarist or Leftist.
14 votes -
Scale was the god that failed
10 votes -
‘Stories are chosen due to editorial merit’ and ‘newsworthy updates’ - BBC
6 votes -
BBC China correspondent John Sudworth moves to Taiwan after threats
9 votes -
Teen Vogue editor resigns after fury over racist tweets
13 votes -
The other side of cancel culture
8 votes -
How the New York Times A/B tests their headlines
8 votes -
When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?
9 votes -
Techworker.com launches, a new reader-funded site focusing on employees at tech companies
10 votes -
Why Vladimir Putin wants Alexei Navalny dead
8 votes -
Climate Crisis Font shrinks in response to Arctic sea ice data
9 votes -
Facebook to lift Australia news ban after government agrees to amendments to proposed legislation requiring them to pay publishers
6 votes -
Facebook will ban Australian users from sharing or viewing news
18 votes -
Preparing for “Yardi Gras” in New Orleans
9 votes -
'This used to be your favourite show': Polish media falls silent to protest tax
6 votes -
What publications do you subscribe to?
I've recently gotten into paying the wall rather than jumping it. Until recently my only paid subscription was The Correspondent, before it unfortunately passed away. I'm now subscribed to: The...
I've recently gotten into paying the wall rather than jumping it.
Until recently my only paid subscription was The Correspondent, before it unfortunately passed away.I'm now subscribed to:
- The New Yorker
A publication I've long wanted to subscribe to, but never did. It lives up to its reputation, only wish it had an Android app. - The New York Times
This one I started on the basic subscription, but upgraded to All Access for the crosswords and bonus subscription. I've found the Cooking subscription included to be quite interesting too. - The Wall Street Journal
I subscribed to this one to provide me another perspective apart from NYT. I also have known them to uncover many stories in the past, and would like to have access whenever that does happen. - The Washington Post
This one I'm not sure how I feel, I don't feel right giving Bezos money, or rather trusting him as a news source—but I got a pretty good deal on it for the year. I know The Washington Post rates highly in terms of credibility, but I can't help but be skeptical. - The Information
This one I started before all the ones listed above, I've enjoyed it, it provides tech news, but I think I'm going to cancel it as soon as my billing period is over. They make quality articles and such, but they're a bit pricey for my taste.
Anyway, I'd like to know what publications y'all subscribe to. Do you get paper or are you all-digital? And are there any credible conservative sources to broaden the perspectives I see?
15 votes - The New Yorker