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7 votes
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What happened to the news?
8 votes -
Given up sugar? Great, now it’s time to cut the news from your diet
26 votes -
Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
12 votes -
ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus has gifted books to high school students across Sweden to try to stem the flow of fake news
8 votes -
Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions
11 votes -
CNN treats politics like a drama, and it's making us all less informed
35 votes -
Facebook includes Breitbart in new 'high quality' news tab
31 votes -
What are some good news outlets you would recommend?
Ideally without any paywall since I am a long way away from even being able to work.
23 votes -
An interview with the Ukrainians who created the "I Love America" Facebook page
10 votes -
Iceland makes the top of the list when it comes to online news consumption, a study conducted by the OECD revealed
5 votes -
Emily Atkin's summary of and thoughts about CNN's 7-hour Climate Crisis Town Hall
10 votes -
Jon Stewart rips Rand Paul's 'virtue signaling' in blocking 9/11 victim fund
10 votes -
Fox News didn't "steal" your parents
19 votes -
Right-wing publications launder an anti-journalist smear campaign
11 votes -
A state-of-the-art defense against neural fake news
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‘Orphan counties,’ and a battle over what local news really means
4 votes -
Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it
22 votes -
Should a Colorado library publish local news?
11 votes -
“We’re drinking now”: The oldest newspaper in New Orleans just fired its entire staff
11 votes -
How the media launders fossil fuel propaganda through branded content
10 votes -
'I hate what they’ve done to almost everyone in my family' (An article about Fox News poisoning.)
36 votes -
How Lachlan Murdoch went from studying philosophy at Princeton to exploiting white nationalism at Fox News
5 votes -
Crazy idea to help stop the spreading of untruthful news
One of the main issues with news on social media is the spread of fake or false news. This happens on every platform that allows sharing news. If Tildes continues to gain popularity, this will...
One of the main issues with news on social media is the spread of fake or false news. This happens on every platform that allows sharing news. If Tildes continues to gain popularity, this will likely happen on Tildes. I had an Idea: what if tildes had a group of fact checkers that check to see if the news is truthful, and block posts that link to untrustworthy new sites? could be like a 3 strikes thing, where if a new source has 3 articles posted that have misinformation, they would be blocked (the post also removed).
This is just an idea, feel free to highlight any issues with it.
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[David Matheson, the Mormon] ‘Gay conversion therapist’ comes out: Exclusive interview [to Channel 4]
8 votes -
Why your newsfeed sucks
5 votes -
The cigarette company that reinvented television news
3 votes -
The eerie absence of viral fakes after the New Zealand mosque attacks
12 votes -
How the American media fuels a cycle of violence
3 votes -
Advertisers ditch Carlson and Pirro’s Fox News shows; protesters urge other companies to join them
7 votes -
In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments
11 votes -
YouTube is rolling out a feature that shows fact-checks when people search for sensitive topics
18 votes -
'Fake news' on India-Pakistan crisis raises fears before election
6 votes -
The making of the Fox News White House
19 votes -
PSA: Disinformation and the over-representation of false flag events on social media.
I've noticed lately that on certain social media websites, particularly Reddit and Facebook, there has been an uptick in articles about fake hate crimes and false rape reports. The comments on...
I've noticed lately that on certain social media websites, particularly Reddit and Facebook, there has been an uptick in articles about fake hate crimes and false rape reports. The comments on these articles especially fan the flames on the subjects of homophobia, racism, and sexism. While the articles themselves are still noteworthy and deserving of attention, the amount of attention that they've been receiving has been disproportionately high (especially when considering how fairly unknown the individuals involved are) and the discourse on those articles particularly divisive.
On top of that, there are clear disinformation campaigns going on to attack current Democratic presidential candidates in the U.S. It seems pretty clear that we're having a repeat of the last presidential election, with outside parties stoking the flames of discrimination and disinformation on social media in order to further ideological divisions, and the consumers of that media readily falling for it.
I would caution readers to be mindful of the shifting representation of historically controversial or contentious topics moving forward. Even if the articles themselves are solidly factual, take note of how frequently you're seeing these articles, whether or not they're known to be contentious topics, and how they're affecting online discourse.
In short: make sure that you can still smell bullshit even when it's dressed up in pretty little facts.
30 votes -
Chihayafuru Season 3 Delayed Until October 2019
3 votes -
What are reliable sites for thoughtful content from a non-American perspective?
I came across a site about Chinese tech and video gaming and found it very Buzzfeed-y with its headlines and writing. It made me wonder what are the websites that curate a standard of thoughtful...
I came across a site about Chinese tech and video gaming and found it very Buzzfeed-y with its headlines and writing. It made me wonder what are the websites that curate a standard of thoughtful articles, essays, discussion, etc. and aren't part of the American internet scene.
I don't care what language it's in, what it's about, what country specifically it's centered on, if it's community-centric or not. If you have a suggestion, let's hear it.
Edit: An example I have is The Blizzard. It's really a subscription-model digital magazine (about soccer) but you can read various articles online.
21 votes -
This school district in Texas may create its own police force
6 votes -
How fake news was weaponized in Nigeria's elections
5 votes -
Do racists like Fox News, or does Fox make people racist?
14 votes -
Microsoft Edge browser flags Daily Mail Online as untrustworthy
24 votes -
Macedonia's former ruling party organized a trolling apparatus for spreading hate speech, threats
8 votes -
White House revokes press pass from CNN's Jim Acosta
30 votes -
A Financial Times editor calls for a Fox News advertiser boycott
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I feel like one of the biggest digital losses of the last five years was the rise and fall of independent news networks
There was a brief (an oh-so-brief) period in youtube history where all types of non-corporate content thrived. I'm referring, if memory serves, to the timespan from around 2011 - late 2014. This...
There was a brief (an oh-so-brief) period in youtube history where all types of non-corporate content thrived. I'm referring, if memory serves, to the timespan from around 2011 - late 2014.
This was after youtube initially got big, but before Google decided that it wanted to step in and maintain the cultural status quo rather than redefine it. Ad revenue paid creators fairly-ish in most cases, and the talk of the town was machinima assfucking it's segment of poor souls that signed into it, rather than youtube pulling the same moves universally as it did a few years later.
(Suffice to say I have no love for the platform).
It's important to note that at this time, Youtube was a bit like a small-scale television enterprise, before it dreamed of deliberately becoming one. Youtube had everything from animations to product reviews, news to reality programming to VFX extravaganzas.
One of the most incredibly important innovations of the time, and one that's been all-but-lost, was the birth (and subsequent heat-death) of youtube news channels.
These channels mirrored cable news, but without the influence of corporate sponsors getting in the way, and without the ravenous need to appease political parties and harebrained cable tv viewers. They were biased - good god were some of them biased - and they weren't perfect, but they were set up in such a way that, had youtube not fucked it up (sigh...) they might've someday dethroned CNN, MSNBC and Fox.
With the next election coming up and shaping up to be a small-scale repeat of 2018s (you're kidding yourself if we're every going to go any other direction than further down at this point - after all, it works!) it's important to remember that there was, for a beautiful gleaming moment, a chance for not a corporation, but a community, to rise up and redefine the way people received news in a way that hadn't been seen since the conception of the newspaper.
Instead, youtube squandered it. Real events and engaging content don't generate views. People can't sit and watch hours of current events like they do for whatever-the-hell youtube trends nowadays (list videos and toy openings, I guess?), and why would they? If you get on youtube to watch today's news, you're not going to stick around for yesterday's. So youtube's 'algorythm', a word I've come to absolutely detest, doesn't favor them just like it doesn't favor basically anything else that once made youtube great.
The icing on the cake: rather than embrace even a tertiary aspect of the community, they went for the safe option and the ad revenue. No Phillip Defranco for you, we'll show you Jimmy Kimmel. No TYT, we'll fill trending with clips of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. The only real survivor of the era was infowars.
Here's to you, youtube news. Dead and gone, but not forgotten.
9 votes -
Migrant caravan faces false accusations as it crosses Mexico
3 votes -
Tucker Carlson says he can't go to restaurants anymore
12 votes -
The fake abortion clinics of America: Misconception
12 votes -
How companies can use fake websites and backdated news articles to censor Google’s search results
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Can you spot the deceptive Facebook post?
29 votes